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‘Brooklyn’ should not be underestimated
“Brooklyn” is the rare sort of film that leaves you in disbelief once the end credits start rolling. Read More
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‘Room’ is full of surprises
It’s one of those films where knowing absolutely nothing about it is the only way to watch it. Read More
Oscars
Oscar watch: A Christmas ‘Carol’
Giving into the charms of Todd Haynes’ “Carol” is kind of like falling in love: you begin to slowly surrender, until you do so all at once. Read More
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‘All the President’s Men’ deserves a rewatch
Though the book is far more detailed and exact, the 1976 film–starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford–expresses the paranoia of the era in all of its creeping eeriness. Read More
Golden Globes
Celebrity worship is fleeting
Two weeks ago, we witnessed the unexpected dethroning of Queen Jennifer Lawrence when she called out a reporter at the Golden Globes for looking at his phone. Read More
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Goodbye, Alan Rickman
Not since the death of Robin Williams has an actor so ingrained in our childhood passed away. Read More
#OscarsSoWhite
With #OscarsSoWhite, we’re having the wrong debate
It’s reductive and rather unhelpful to cry foul at the exclusion of people of color if the performances don’t really warrant that reaction. Read More
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2016 Oscar Predictions
Who do you think will win? Our prediction of the 2016 Academy Award nominees. Read More
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‘Sicario’ strikes at the zeitgeist
In Denis Villeneuve’s bleak new film “Sicario,” the FBI’s attempts to sedate the drug war across the United States-Mexican border serve as a metaphor for general American idealism. Centering on by-the-books FBI agent Kate Mercer (Emily Blunt, her typical luminance dimmed, but still present), the film follows her experiences as she’s recruited to a task […]
