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‘White Noise’ Offers Disaster Cinema, Woody Allen Style
In a span of just a few years, Adam Driver has become a consistently exciting and often brilliant actor to…
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‘The Whale’ Punishes Us from Start to Finish
Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale” is a painful new drama that has been touted for months as the marking the return…
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‘Babylon’ Is a Future Classic … And Here’s Why
Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” has already inspired mountains of articles that declare it either a masterpiece or a foul disaster, which…
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Dueling ‘Pinocchios’: Why del Toro Trumps Zemeckis
The little wooden puppet who longs to be a real boy is having quite the movie year. Based on Carlo…
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‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ Is the Antonio Banderas Show (And Little Else)
One of the joys of catching up with the title characters of “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” is revisiting…
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‘Empire of Light’ Is a Glorious Visual Feast (But Not Much Else)
Every film lover has their favorite movie theater, a place that lives in the mind as not merely a place…
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‘Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night’ Remains a Major Curiosity Item
Among the strangest animated films of the 1980s, and one of the unlikeliest of sequels, is “Pinocchio and the Emperor…
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Romero’s ‘Creepshow’ Paved the Way for Our Comic-Con Cravings
George A. Romero’s “Creepshow” (1982) is never mentioned as a major, trailblazing comic book movie, but it is. Whereas many…
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‘Wes Craven Presents: They’ Works Best for One Kind of Horror Fan
Robert Harmon’s “They” (2002) is also known as “Wes Craven Presents ‘They’” on the poster and trailers, but only referenced…
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Does ‘Visiting Hours’ Deserve Its ‘Nasty’ Reputation?
Deborah Ballin (Lee Grant) is the host of “America Today.” Her on-air views anger exactly the wrong fan, a deranged…
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