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Now Playing: “I Am Not Madame Bovary”
In this week's critic-at-large column, Mallory Andrews takes a look at the new class comedy "I Am Not Madame Bovary."
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“Coming Home” Is Bland And Ultimately Forgettable
If you were told that Coming Home was about a mother suffering from amnesia and the father and daughter who are forced to come to terms with the effects of her illness on them, you might assume that this was Hollywood’s latest attempt at an Oscar-bait prestige...
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Bertolucci’s “The Last Emperor”: Beneath the Gold Ornamentation
Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor (1987) chronicles the story of a man unable to break out of his destiny. The Chinese Emperor Pu Yi (played as an adult by John Lone) receives the throne as a child. “The son of heaven,” he is the most powerful person in t...
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Why “Star Wars” Needs a Chinese Director
With Rian Johnson set to direct Star Wars Episode VIII, Internet response seems united in praise. He joins fellow “superfans” Gareth Edwards and Josh Trank, both attached to unspecified "Star Wars" spinoffs. It’s impossible to judge sequels to unmade sequels. ...
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