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Women in Love
There’s a proud tradition of gay male film directors who make their best movies about women: George Cukor, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pedro Almodóvar, François...
Masked and Anomalous
It so happens that this week’s Film page features two movies that played at last November’s Lone Star Film Festival. Carol was the main...
The Best Movie Moments of 2015
I saw more than 300 new movies in 2015. That’s well ahead of my usual quota for a 12-month period, by something like 10...
Film Shorts
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Carol (R) Based on a novel by Fort Worth’s Patricia Highsmith, this romance is about an aspiring photographer (Rooney Mara) who falls in love...
Unbreakable Glass
Look, I get why people are losing their minds over The Revenant. It looks amazing and has much else to recommend it besides. Still,...
Despicable We
The first thing you’ll see in The Hateful Eight is an overture. It’s a title card shown over several minutes’ worth of mood-setting music...
Best Documentaries of 2015
You may have noticed that I didn’t include any documentaries when I ran my list of 2015’s best movies last week. I’m never sure...
The Best Movies of 2005
I think it was Slate’s Dana Stevens who said that any critic would have to be a masochist to go back and look over...
The Best Lead Performances of 2015
Time now for the best headlining star turns I saw this year. I’m glad to report that the gender-equity pendulum swung back in 2015...
Film Shorts
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The Danish Girl (R) A shapeless lump. This biopic of Einar Wegener a.k.a. Lili Elbe, one of the first men to undergo sexual reassignment...
