7 years ago
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“Burying the Ex”
Relationships are hard, especially when one partner is undead and wants to kill the other so that they’ll be together—forever. Burying the Ex is closer to Gremlins (1984) than The Howling (1981) when it comes to the Joe Dante scale of horror. In fact, other th...
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“Dope”
In Rick Famuyiwa’s urban coming-of-age film Dope, sincere nerd Malcolm (Shameik Moore) and his two best friends, 14% African jokester Jib (Tony Revolori) and sharp-witted lesbian Diggy (Kiersey Clemons), make references to all of the following: Rick Ross, Case...
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“Inside Out”
Pete Docter’s prior films are permeated with sadness, hovering on the periphery and threatening to swallow the stories whole. On the surface, Monsters, Inc. is a mix of high-octane action and screwball farce in a fantastical universe; just below, it builds up ...
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“Eden”
On the surface, Mia Hansen-Løve’s exquisite, delicately nostalgic film Eden is a personal homage to the “French Touch” generation that gives electronic music its long-overdue eulogy in cinema. It is a beautiful, slick, and streamlined surface, ripe with melanc...
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“The Tribe”
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s The Tribe has ridden an enticing hook—it’s performed entirely in sign language, with no subtitles—to considerable critical and festival acclaim. But is there much to it beyond the admittedly fascinating formal gimmick? While it’s temp...
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“The Overnight”
You might have heard that the 2015 Sundance Film Festival has been an exceptionally “sexy” one (even for Sundance) with a range of films, from The Bronze to Sleeping with Other People, that either take seriously or outrageously goof around bedroom intimacy. Wr...
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“The Wolfpack”
The Wolfpack, Crystal Moselle's debut documentary film, opens with a shot of the New York City skyline at twilight as seen through a fence. Considering the subject of the film, the mostly shut-in Angulo family, this image grows heavy with significance as their...
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“Soaked in Bleach”
Was Kurt Cobain murdered? Twenty-one years since Cobain's death and there are passionate followers who protest that the Nirvana front man did not die by his own hand. Kurt Cobain's death was officially ruled suicide by the state police, but that hasn't been en...
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“Live From New York!”
A couple years back, I interviewed Bill Hader, who told me of a hilarious-sounding Alan Alda sketch he'd pitched for "Saturday Night Live," only to be shot down by executive producer Lorne Michaels with the query: "Why now?"
It's a question that could just as...
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“The Yes Men Are Revolting”
For over 15 years, activists Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos (aka Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno) have pulled multiple high-profile culture-jamming stunts as the Yes Men. The Yes Men Are Revolting, co-directed by Bichlbaum and Bonanno alongside Laura Nix, is th...
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