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Aug. 23, 2023
Every Star Wars Movie, Ranked From The Phantom Menace to The Rise of Skywalker.
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Sept. 18, 2020
RBG Is the Best Imaginable Retaliation to MansplainingYes, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg doc is a hagiography, but it has its cheeky aspect.
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July 9, 2020
In Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow , Capitalism Continues to Divide and Conquer What you register in the 19th-century frontier drama is what’s absent: a sense of community, of a shared enterprise.
Spaceship Earth Casts a Sympathetic Lens on a Much-Ridiculed Failed UtopiaMatt Wolf’s very entertaining documentary about Biosphere 2 sets out to liberate its architects and participants from their fate as a punch line.
Bull Is So Much More Than a Coming-of-Age ClichéThe story of a 14-year-old girl’s attempt to escape her homelife by apprenticing with an ex–bull rider is more stoic than it sounds.
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Apr. 30, 2020
Our Mothers Digs Up Guatemala’s Painful PastCésar Diaz’s drama about the aftermath of the nation’s civil war feels a bit like shards from a larger mosaic, but that somehow fits its subject.
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Apr. 24, 2020
New Braveheart Sequel Brings You More Angus Macfadyen and a Lot Less Blood Twenty-five years after Mel Gibson yelled “freeeeeedommm,” director Richard Gray brings Robert the Bruce back.
a long talk
Apr. 21, 2020
Paul Schrader Does Not Have Much Hope for the Future of Movies After publicly condemning producers who shut down his new movie over coronavirus concerns, the First Reformed director reflects in quarantine.
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Apr. 3, 2020
In The Other Lamb, Misandry Is a Survival Instinct Given all the godly males who’ve been steering their flocks toward certain doom, the film has a special resonance in the spring of 2020.
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Apr. 1, 2020
Introducing Six Degrees of One Kevin Bacon Movie , a New Quarantine Game We asked our film writers to start with Mystic River and work their way through five more titles … ending on another Kevin Bacon movie.
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Mar. 27, 2020
Crip Camp Is a Transcendent Celebration of Activist CultureIt’s a shame this Netflix movie can’t be seen with a large, boisterous audience. It’ll make you want to dance and light up a joint.
the heaviside layer
Mar. 23, 2020
A Few Thoughts on Watching Cats Alone We are all now the cats of Cats , prowling in the shadows of our tattered culture, reliving memories in the ruined theaters of our minds.
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Mar. 13, 2020
Lost Girls Is an Anti-Police ProceduralThe Netflix film will make you rethink your need for a certain kind of closure in a world that has so little of it.
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Mar. 6, 2020
In the Brief, Sad Hope Gap , Annette Bening Gives a Fascinating Performance William Nicholson’s autobiographical English drama, co-staring Bill Nighy, premiered at TIFF.
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Feb. 27, 2020
Wendy Takes a Children’s Classic Into Art-House NeverlandBenh Zeitlin’s follow-up to Beasts of the Southern Wild is a soggy riff on Peter Pan .
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Feb. 21, 2020
A Kinder, Gentler Call of the Wild Cancels Jack London’s Original The original novel is surprisingly brutal. This version, with its computer-generated dogs, is weak stuff.
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Jan. 9, 2020
Gillian Armstrong and Her Protagonists Redefined the Modern Movie Heroine Her work was vibrant and searching and messy in the best sense, and she put women’s psychology onscreen in ways that were never reductive.
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Dec. 25, 2019
Greta Gerwig’s Little Women Reaches for Something More The director demonstrates her love for Louisa May Alcott’s 1868 novel in every scene.
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Dec. 18, 2019
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Is a Formulaic, Crowd-Pleasing CartoonEpisode IX is a dream movie for Disney as much as I’m guessing it’s a nightmare for George Lucas.
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Dec. 13, 2019
Uncut Gems Gives Adam Sandler the Awesome, Freaky Movie He DeservesIt’s the summation of the Safdie brothers’ culture, in which the drive for life collides head-on with the drive for death, and the upshot is cinema.
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Dec. 13, 2019
Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell Is Full of Rage and Spin It can’t be an accident that the film shows the enemies of truth and justice to be the FBI and the press.
what were the 2010s?
Dec. 11, 2019
Every Movie of the 2010s, Ranked Our critics pored over 5,279 of the decade’s films. Here’s the best, worst, and meh st.
best of 2019
Dec. 2, 2019
The Best Movies of 2019 Our critics celebrate the latest Tarantino, a South Korean black comedy, and the return of Eddie Murphy.
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Nov. 27, 2019
In Rian Johnson’s Knives Out , Rich White Bigots Get Their Comeuppance Macabre as it is, there’s something comfy about the universe of this ensemble whodunit.
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Nov. 27, 2019
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman Is His Most Satisfying Film in Decades The director has made his most stylishly daring movie: one that is pointedly sapped of style.
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Nov. 22, 2019
Todd Haynes’s Dark Waters Shows You Hell on Earth Is this what happens every day in a country controlled by companies with vast coffers, armies of lobbyists, and politicians leased by the year?
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Nov. 18, 2019
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Ought to Make You Roll Your Eyes, and Yet …Our nicest Hollywood star playing our nicest-ever children’s show host: There’s peer pressure to succumb.
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Nov. 15, 2019
The Report Is a Dry, Arm’s-Length Movie That Seeps Into Your BloodAccidentally or on purpose (or a bit of both), Scott Z. Burns’s movie reminds us how hard it is to be a whistle-blower.
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Nov. 15, 2019
Ford v Ferrari Is an Old-fashioned RouserJames Mangold doesn’t misuse his head-rattling techniques. He brings a lot of new-fashioned virtuosity, too.
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Nov. 8, 2019
In Marriage Story , Noah Baumbach’s Self-Pity Comes With Stretches of Brilliance The best parts of this divorce saga are the small moments that resonate like mad.
The Movies We Loved in 2019 Including Bong Joon Ho’s acid black comedy, Brad Pitt in space, and the gentle Pain and Glory .
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Oct. 25, 2019
The Current War Is an Absorbing Biopic That Never Quite Snaps Into FocusWhile alternating current is a fine principle for lighting the world, movies require a current more direct.
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Oct. 25, 2019
Dolemite Is My Name Gives Eddie Murphy a Second ActThe writers of Ed Wood provide the actor with his best material in years.
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Oct. 24, 2019
In Terminator: Dark Fate, the Cornball Franchise Returns With a Vengeance The sixth — er, third — Terminator film has gotten much better reviews than it deserves, but I understand why people want to embrace it.
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Oct. 18, 2019
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Oct. 11, 2019
Parasite Is an Acid-Black Comedy That Eats at the MindAt the heart of Bong Joon-ho’s latest film is the most gnawing evolutionary fear of all.
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Oct. 10, 2019
In The King , Timothée Chalamet’s Emo Angst Is Underwhelming David Michôd’s Netflix movie is a dull morality play — with one exception: a Plantagenet Jack Reacher moment.
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Oct. 3, 2019
Natalie Portman Gives an Astronomically Intense Performance in Lucy in the Sky Even when we don’t know what the hell is going on in Noah Hawley’s astronaut epic, Portman is a blast.
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Oct. 1, 2019
Joker Is One Unpleasant Note Played Louder and LouderJoaquin Phoenix is impressive, but the film panders to selfish, small-minded feelings of resentment.
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Sept. 27, 2019
In Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat , the Meek Are Absolutely Screwed Is The Laundromat a poor man’s The Big Short? I would say it’s a heavily mortgaged middle-class man’s The Big Short , and that’s not such a bad thing.
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Sept. 20, 2019
Rambo: Last Blood and the Limits of the Macho-Male FantasyNo, I don’t know why I had high hopes for Sylvester Stallone’s latest.
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Sept. 20, 2019
Ad Astra Is Mostly Brad Pitt and Nothing ButJames Gray, even more successfully than in Two Lovers and The Lost City of Z , steeps you in his protagonist’s psyche.
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Sept. 12, 2019
The Goldfinch : When Adaptation Is Way Too ReverentThe movie is too artful to deserve outright rejection, but too arty to keep you from saying, “What did I just see?”
the devil and daniel johnston
Sept. 11, 2019
What Fresh Hell Is This? In honor of the late Daniel Johnston, we’re revisiting the 2006 documentary that brought his defiant life to screen.
toronto film festival 2019
Sept. 11, 2019
The Resentment of Joker I’m not arguing that Todd Phillips’s movie will inspire killings, only that it panders to selfish, small-minded feelings of resentment.
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Sept. 3, 2019
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Aug. 29, 2019
Official Secrets Is a Low-key, Paranoid Procedural Drama Done WellPasty white men debate whether a Bush-era whistle-blower, Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), is a hero or a traitor.
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Aug. 26, 2019
Brittany Runs a Marathon Is a Conflicted Go-for-It MovieDirector Paul Downs Collaizo and star Jillian Bell dare to tell an emotionally convoluted story.
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Aug. 23, 2019
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Aug. 16, 2019
Where’d You Go, Bernadette ? Nowhere, Damn ItNot even Cate Blanchett can save this out-of-focus adaptation.
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