Tag: film
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Heavily Made Up
March 25, 2022
Don't look now, but it's “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”
The World Was Just an Address
March 24, 2022
The Oscars are the abandoned auto show of the movie industry.
Remember the Potemkin
March 14, 2022
Memories of Odessa.
Time Is a Rabid Dog
January 13, 2022
Pandemic cinema at the end of year two.
Déjà Vu All Over Again
December 23, 2021
The Matrix, resurrected.
I Told You So
December 23, 2021
Adam McKay’s Aesop-style fable.
Against the Universe
July 16, 2021
Space Jam: A New Legacy takes the cinematic universe to its logical conclusion.
The Cop Did It
May 26, 2021
Powerful citizens are usually above suspicion.
She Stays Winning
May 19, 2021
A genre of “feminist” filmmaking conflates suffering and empowerment.
In Three Years We Can Quit Chicken Sexing
April 22, 2021
ANOTHER ROUND
If you can accept Mads Mikkelsen as a depressed high school history teacher in the suburbs, maybe you will also believe that his beautiful doctor wife (Maria Bonnevie) would take him back after he makes drinking on the job the guiding principle of his life. Thomas ...
The Fruit of Power
April 21, 2021
Raoul Peck unspools Western history in a new documentary on colonialism and genocide