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Now Playing: “Fifty Shades Darker”
For this week's Critic At Large column, Mallory Andrews saucily beats up Fifty Shades Darker for being a bad film that deserves all the humiliation it can possibly get.
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Now Playing: “Bang Gang” and “Tickled”
Mallory Andrews reviews the transgressive documentary "Tickled" and a would-be transgressive film, "Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)".
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“Love” Is Basically “Annie Hall” With Money Shots
Some time ago, I lived next door to a couple who, by all accounts, were terrible for each other. I’d lie awake at night, listening through the paper-thin walls to their galvanic arguments, usually set off by some ludicrous imagined slight conjured up in a fit ...
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Realerotik: A Brief History of Live Sex in Cinema
In 1964, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart made history by using the most plain-and-simple phrasing in his vocabulary to express his definition of hardcore pornography, declaring, “I know it when I see it.” In the eleventh episode of the third season of the...
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“The Little Death”
In a scene deep into the second act of Australian comedy anthology The Little Death, a man and his girlfriend walk back to their car in a parking garage following a romantic dinner. They’re stopped by a pair of thugs who glower at them, take their wallets and ...
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The Single Cinephile’s Guide to Anti-Valentine’s Day Films
To give you a sense of how I feel about Valentine’s Day, I’ll share two short stories. First, a couple years ago, I had a “platonic” Valentine, for whom I prepared Hershey kisses by removing the paper tags in each and replaced them with various lyrics from Elt...
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Euro-Sleazy A: An Interview with Peter Strickland
The Duke of Burgundy, which has become a bit of a film-festival darling in the last several months, follows the ups and downs of a relationship between two women, Cynthia (Sidse Knudsen) and Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna), who practice sadomasochism in their sprawling...
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With A Little Help From Our Friends
Every week, With a Little Help from Our Friends highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
For your reading enjoyment …
"Chris Rock Pens Blistering Essay on...
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Sex(ist): On Cinematic Nudity
No surprise that David Fincher’s adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s controversial best-selling novel Gone Girl became a big hit upon its release. One aspect of the film that generated unexpected chatter, however, was Ben Affleck’s penis. Days (weeks?) after critics...
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The Emptiness of Days to Come: On Gender Stereotypes and Sex in “White Bird in a Blizzard”
When it comes to exploring themes on sexuality in film, few contemporary auteurs have been more radical, and more divisive, than Gregg Araki. A pivotal figure in the New Queer Cinema movement during the early 1990s, and highly considered to be the "bad boy" of...
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