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Now Playing: “Mad Tiger” and “Elstree 1976”
Mallory Andrews reviews two new documentaries in theaters now.
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No More Half Measures: On Disney Live-Action Remakes
Josh Spiegel writes about the recent proliferation of Disney live-action remakes of animated films, and how they need to stop taking half-measures.
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SXSW 2016: Fingers on the Pulse
In the wake of SXSW, Marshall Shaffer reflects on the festival's unique place in the cinematic landscape.
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This Week’s Cinema: “Moonwalkers” and “Band of Robbers”
Mallory Andrews reviews two of 2016's first films.
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“Heist” Is A Brazenly Derivative, Time-Killing Knockoff
Robert De Niro vapes in Heist, which I guess is almost as much a sign of changing times as Robert De Niro even appearing in a film like this at all. Following The Bag Man and Freelancers, Heist is the latest of the cinema legend’s straight-to-video throwaways ...
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The Cinema of Tumult and Discovery: On Judy Garland
“You know, I figure you have to know what you’re singing about before you can get the idea over to other people.” —Judy Garland, Babes in Arms (1939)
It was a year of tumult and of discovery. The Great Plains were ravaged by the Dust Bowl. Amelia Earhart comp...
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“The Forbidden Room” Is A Freewheeling Achievement
Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson’s The Forbidden Room is a tribute to a film that never existed. More accurately, it is a supercut of various fictional films—a stitched-together collage of associative links and vague thematic consistency. From one point of view, th...
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“Killer’s Kiss” At 60″
The imperfect, frequently bush-league Killer's Kiss fits almost too neatly into Stanley Kubrick's storied career. As his second feature following Fear & Desire, which he famously sought to suppress, it figures as his last first draft before the evolutionar...
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“Black Mass” Is An Ugly, Droning Nothing Of A Movie
What an ugly, droning nothing of a movie director Scott Cooper’s Black Mass turns out to be. This much-ballyhooed (at least here in Boston) take on the frankly exhausted Whitey Bulger mythos has nothing new nor particularly interesting to say, cycling through ...
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Stop-Motion Animation Is Dying, But It Still Matters
Roughly a decade ago, the world of animation was nearly dealt a serious blow in the form of a fire destroying over three decades of archival work from Aardman Animations. This stop-motion studio is best known for creating the unflappable duo of Wallace and Gro...
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