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NYFF 2016: “13th”
Vikram Murthi submits this review from the first night of the New York Film Festival, on the new Ava DuVernay film "13th."
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To Stream Or Not To Stream
Monica Castillo on how record distribution deals at Sundance may change how we watch movies.
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We’re All Pirates
Online piracy has reached a boiling point. We talk to filmmakers, critics, and publishers about its pervasiveness and long-term effects.
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The Questionable Racial Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Marvel's TV series have more people of color than we can find elsewhere in Marvel’s cinematic universe, but do they really represent progress?
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Why “Beasts of No Nation” Is Merciless and Difficult to Watch
There are two integral components to any review of Beasts of No Nation: Its identity as a piece of art and its identity as a product of an industry experiencing post-millennial growing pains. “Netflix presents a Netflix original film,” the credits tell us befo...
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On The Enduring Strength And Subversion of Lily Tomlin
“I see these stiff, inhibited women,” Lily Tomlin told Time Magazine in 1977. “Uptight, uncertain, thwarted.” She was describing the audiences of her live performances. She saw repression everywhere—this discomfort within women externalized in their very body ...
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Brando vs. Brando: Dueling Visions Of The Icon
Was latter-day Marlon Brando the corpulent madman of myth, or a visionary genius who’d already moved on to the next level of movie acting? While the perception of the 20th century’s most famous actor as a paycheck-cashing recluse in his later years endures in ...
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“Mala Mala”
We live in an interesting time for transgender visibility. Laverne Cox’s stint on the Netflix series "Orange is the New Black" has allowed her to catapult into an arena where she can call attention to trans rights and the oppression trans people face, particul...
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Love Streams: 1/8/2014
Nothing beats dragging your heavily resistant friends to the movies, sliding into the semi-uncomfortable and questionably sticky seat, and dealing with the annoying texter three rows below you. For everything else, there’s MasterCard.
Or in this instance, the...
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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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