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Now Playing: “Silence”
Vikram Murthi writes about the latest epic from Martin Scorsese in this week's critic-at-large column, "Silence."
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“Youth” Leaves a Bland Aftertaste
Considering its talent, lush beauty, and quietly simmering passion, Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth leaves a rather bland aftertaste. The artful film aims to be an exercise on aging and the diminishing currency of self-worth over time. Yet, its ideas are insinuated a...
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“Moonrise Kingdom” Charts Wes Anderson’s Cozy World
There are movies we love and then there are movies we want to inhabit. Certain special films contain diegetic universes so immersive, so rich and seductively real, that the desire to be consumed and placed into their little worlds is a constant from viewer to ...
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“Two Men in Town”
Frustratingly close to being something very special indeed, Rachid Bouchareb’s Two Men in Town boasts a painterly visual sensibility and some of the more nuanced performances this killer cast has delivered in quite some time. The mood of the film is deliberate...
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Netflix Weekend 8/8: Tarantino Edition
This week we’ll be highlighting three films by Quentin Tarantino: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown. Why, you ask? Because summer is in the dog days of August, and it’s time for a pallet cleanser from the non-stop parade of studio tent-poles, that...
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“The Congress” Is Full of Sensory Overload And Not Much Else
The received wisdom rap against Robin Wright -- which I first recall seeing in one of those bloviating columns by know-it-all screenwriter William Goldman – is that this stunningly beautiful and hugely talented actress could have been one of the biggest movie ...
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The Second Criterion: “The Last Temptation of Christ”
I was a hardcore Bible kid, growing up. From fourth to sixth grade, I went to a Baptist elementary school. After that, I went to a Baptist middle school. For high school, I was in a Catholic high school, Catholicism being my family's main religion and not near...
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Wes Anderson’s Latest Diorama “The Grand Budapest Hotel” Isn’t His Tidiest
Wes Anderson is cinema’s inner child incarnate. His perfectly crafted interior universes - labyrinthine submarines, exotic trains, prestigious private schools - are populated by imperfect sad souls, live-action Charlie Browns who are forever mourning or resent...
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AFI Fest Review: ‘The Congress’
There's a moment in Ari Folman's previous film, the animated Invasion of Lebanon documentary Waltz With Bashir, that pulls you back to reality in an emotionally devastating fashion. After experiencing the entirety of the film's disturbing events through Folman...
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