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“Mortdecai”
There’s just never enough ham on the buffet for Johnny Depp these days. Unfathomable as it seems for anyone who grew up watching him in the ’90s—with his indelible performances in Cry-Baby, Ed Wood, Dead Man, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas—Hollywood’s once...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “Tongues Untied”
However one interprets Kodak’s co-option of gay black dads Kordale Anthony and Kaleb Lewis for a recent advertising campaign, it’s nonetheless heartening to see open, honest depictions of black male homosexuality explored in a prominent space. This subject mat...
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The Diet Coke of Gay: An Interview with Desiree Akhavan
Desiree Akhavan’s Appropriate Behavior, the break-out film for the New York-based director/writer/actress, is a delightful and honest depiction of what it means to be young, Iranian-American and bisexual. The protagonist Shirin, played by the director and loos...
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(Death) Scenes from a Marriage: 7 Films to Watch After “Gone Girl”
David Fincher and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl provided countless thinkpieces with their adaptation of Flynn’s bestselling thriller, and much of it wrangled with what exactly the film was trying to say about marriage and about gender. Some called it the most femi...
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Spice World: David Lynch’s “Dune” at 30
Last summer, a major studio allowed James Gunn, an untested indie darling, to helm a big-budget adaptation of an obscure science-fiction property. That the result, Guardians of the Galaxy, was a global hit, struck many as a surprisingly lucrative gamble. In hi...
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To Half and Half Not: The Films to Remember from 2010 – 2014
The end of the year is, undoubtedly, a time of reflection: what we’ve experienced, what we’ve learned, how many resolutions we broke and what we’re going to do to rectify that, etc. It is also the time of lists. Lists, lists, lists. The internet in mid to late...
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High Tension: The Best of William Friedkin
He has over thirty directing credits under his belt, but his best films always leave a scar. That's how William Friedkin just seems to work. Whether he's terrifying us with the possession of a young girl, repelling us with oral sex on a chicken wing, or makin...
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The Best Film Writing of 2014
As the year 2014 comes to a close, it offers time to reflect on the past twelve months in popular culture. Whether it was big moments in our nation such as Ferguson, the Ebola outbreak, or a cyber attack, we had plenty of trouble this year. We also lost some f...
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“Two Days, One Night”
In discussing Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s altogether remarkable Two Days, One Night, it’s indeed tempting to praise the movie for all the things it doesn’t do. This is a film of uncommon emotional directness, of simple truths presented unadorned. The Belgia...
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Bye Bye Life: “All That Jazz” as Film Criticism
“Sometimes I don’t know where the bullshit ends and the truth begins.” Neither do any of us, really, but so few eviscerate our own lives with the kind of crackling critical energy that Bob Fosse did. As Angelique (Jessica Lange), his own personal angel of deat...
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