Review: Three Movies in, Avatar Has Lost Its Wonder
[ad_1] The selling point of James Cameron’s Avatar films is that they allegedly invite us into a world of wonder, a universe that’s fanciful yet...
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‘Little Disasters’ Is Everything ‘All Her Fault’ Wasn’t
[ad_1] Viewers who have grown exhausted by TV’s endless supply of interchangeable, mediocre domestic thrillers might be tempted to skip Little Disasters. Premiering Dec. 11...
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Review: Train Dreams | TIME
[ad_1] For a relatively young country, America has inflicted an enormous amount of suffering on human beings. Maybe there’s some cosmic payback in the fact...
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Glen Powell Is Running on Empty in ‘The Running Man’
[ad_1] There’s something vaguely superior about most dystopian movies. We can all point to terrible events and modes of thinking in our current world and...
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‘The Lowdown’ Finale Recap: In Praise of The Sensitive Kind
[ad_1] This piece discusses, in detail, the finale of The Lowdown. At the center of Sterlin Harjo’s excellent neo-noir The Lowdown, whose finale aired Tuesday...
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Review: Ballad of a Small Player
[ad_1] In the movies, at least, Macau seems as far away from a real city as you can get, a futuristic dreamworld of neon reflected...
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‘Down Cemetery Road’ Review: Thriller for ‘Slow Horses’ Fans
[ad_1] In the premiere of Down Cemetery Road, a desperate woman walks into a private investigator’s office. “Let me guess,” says the detective, Zoë Boehm...
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Ethan Hawke Is Sensational in Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon
[ad_1] Who doesn’t love Oklahoma!, the 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein extravaganza that kicked off what’s often called the golden age of musical theater? If you...
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In Hedda’s Take on Ibsen, Style Gets in the Way of Substance
[ad_1] Certain plays, love ’em or hate ’em, are useful in the same way standards make a great playground for singers and jazz musicians. A...
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Aziz Ansari’s ‘Good Fortune’ Is an Amiable Comedy with Bite
[ad_1] Delight is hard to come by at the movies these days, and most of us will take any little scrap we can get. Good...
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Roofman Is a Bright Romantic Comedy with a Melancholy Core
[ad_1] Derek Cianfrance’s based-on-true-life caper Roofman feels like a mainstream studio movie from 10 or 15 years ago, and that’s a good thing. Before the...
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‘Urchin’ Is a Confident and Compassionate Directorial Debut
[ad_1] Some filmmaker debuts come at you with great guns blazing; first-timers often like to pour everything they’ve got into a project, believing that overstatement...