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Divorce story

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I have been here before,But when or how I cannot tell:I know the grass beyond the door,The sweet keen smell,The sighing sound, the lights...

‘Hidden Figures’ has bad-ass thinkers

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Attention: Hollywood has accidentally made a mainstream movie that involves race without a substantial white savior character. Kevin Costner comes very, very close to...

Me and my pal Adolf

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Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) is a good little Nazi. Jojo’s only 10 years old, but his brown shirt is spiffy, his red arm badge is on...

Reel to reel | Week of September 20, 2012

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2 DAYS IN NEW YORK...

Making bad movies good

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Mile High Sci-Fi provides the wit...

Juarez: What is it good for?

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Nobody show Donald Trump Sicario! Already willing to xenophobically cast ignorant shade on entire groups of people, director Denis Villeneuve and writer Taylor Sheridan’s film reads like Captain Floppy-head’s personal vision of what all of Mexico is like. If his ...

It whistleblows


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There’s a good movie to be made about the controversial whistleblowing actions of Edward Snowden. It’s a documentary called Citizenfour, and you should really...

‘Ninja Assassin’ run-of-the-mill

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In Japan, where the blades are shiny and sharp and if the...

‘Red Cliff’ a rare war movie invested in strategy

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Red Cliff is the first Chinese-language film from John Woo in more than a decade, and reportedly the most expensive Chineselanguage movie ever made (though, once you see its Lord of the Rings-like immensity, that “reportedly” becomes “oh, totally”). It is two-and-...

reel to reel | Week of July 7, 2011

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Africa United...

Play these movies loud

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It was just over a year ago, on March 6, 2020, when South By Southwest (SXSW) pulled the plug on its film, music and...

Twentieth-century mogul

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For 50 years, Scott Eyman’s been collecting string. The author of over a dozen books on Hollywood history has a deep collection of research...