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Stopmotion: The Ash Man Cometh

Filmmakers can be an obsessive bunch. Perhaps you know this already. The job gives them so many details to worry over that can make...

Drive-Away Dolls: Severance

Almost since there have been lesbians in movies, there have been crime thrillers to put them in. Drive-Away Dolls is just the latest of...

Taste of Things: Chef’s Kiss

The first half-hour of The Taste of Things is entirely taken up with the characters preparing a meal. First, a simple omelet for themselves:...

How to Have Sex: Trouble in Paradise

Over in the U.K., people are losing their minds over a movie with the attention-grabbing title of How to Have Sex. It popped up...

Lisa Frankenstein: Love Is Undead

Kathryn Newton has spent the last few years being cast as conventional pretty girls in such different films as the addiction drama Ben Is...

Zone of Interest: Next-Door Neighbors

I wrote in my Top 10 Movies list that Japan had a great year in 2023. I could have mentioned Germany, too. That country...

Mean Girls: It Roars

Dear God, has it really been 20 years since the original Mean Girls came out? (Not quite, but it will be in a few...

American Fiction: Little Black Book

Here’s something I didn’t know we were missing: Black literary satire. Over the years, Black cinema has poked fun of Black filmmakers (Hollywood Shuffle),...

Maestro: It’s All Just Music

And now, an apocryphal story about Leonard Bernstein. Some 40 years ago, he conducted a Mozart piece at the Grammy Awards ceremony, and after...

The Iron Claw: Beyond the Ring

They’re an essential part of moviegoing and pop music. We call them heartthrobs, those softly beautiful, feminine-looking young guys whom teenage girls (and the...