The Year So Far
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Royal Warriors: When Michelle Yeoh Was Her Best Self
As vacuous and enervating as the annual cycle of awards season pageantry can be, there’s someth...
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Making A Murderer: Black Trauma And The Media In Alice Diop's Saint Omer
"Nothing makes sense in this story.” Those words, spoken by Fabienne Kabou as she stood trial f...
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The “Latent Psychosis” Of Jimmy Stewart: The Naked Spur At 70
Few actors are more beloved than James Stewart. In rom-coms such as Vivacious Lady and The Shop...
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This Is Ourselves: Music And Memory In Aftersun
In the cathartic, climatic scene of Aftersun, the film’s past and present storylines dramatical...
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Bad Education: Tár And The Sadistic In The Artistic
In the arts, discipline is everything. Without it, you can’t reach the diligence or stamina nee...
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Feel The Film: Mark Jenkin On Enys Men
“I remember going to a 16mm film screening of David Lean's Oliver Twist in the hall of the vill...
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If These Walls Could Talk: The Stone Tape At 50
Charles Babbage is best known as the father of the modern computer, but he had other ideas, too...
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Happy Ending: How Guillermo Del Toro Reinvented The Fairytale
Fairy tales are, by their very nature, fantastical stories. Often set in far-away kingdoms fill...
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Mirror's Image: Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces Review
About twenty years ago, Pedro Almodovar started taking photos of the posters for his films on b...
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Barbarism After Auschwitz: Inglourious Basterds Reviewed
Hollywood has been churning out Nazi films like they're going out of style. Over the past year ...
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Solipsism Syndrome: Duncan Jones' Debut Moon Reviewed
Several months ago, teasers and gossip surrounding Duncan Jones's debut feature Moon seemed to ...
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A Family Affair: Claire Denis' 35 Shots Of Rum Reviewed
There was a time when it was a big deal - seeing black actors on screen. In a way, it still is ...
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Hell to Pay: Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell
Sam Raimi was watching the section in Pan's Labyrinth where young Ofelia has just escaped the t...
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Memories Of The Future: Terminator Salvation Reviewed
The best parts in the original Terminator were those few elusive glimpses of the post-judgment ...
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Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York Reviewed
At his best, Charlie Kaufman is a brilliant surrealist whose inventive premises draw attention ...
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Star Trek Reviewed Plus The Odd-Numbered Films Reassessed
They've been piping Star Trek out, in some form or other, since 1966. It's old, but then it's b...
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