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I'm not ashamed to say it: A Serious Man confused the hell out of me. Most confusing movies are that way because they're poorly...
Top 10 Movies of 2014
I didn’t put any foreign-language films in my list of the year’s best movies. How the hell did that happen? Did the entire non-Anglophone...
Uncut Gems: Howard’s End
Sometimes, it’s really fun to be the guy saying that the Christmas movie riding a wave of positive buzz is terrible. Uncut Gems is...
Court Ruling on “Bully” (Plus, The Cinema of Bullying)
A bit of news came down this past week related to Bully, which is still playing in Tarrant County. A federal district court judge...
Aerosol Cheese
John Waters’ 1988 film Hairspray marked that precarious moment when it looked like Waters would successfully transform from the ultimate filmmaking outsider to a...
Film Shorts
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Hitchcock (PG-13) Anthony Hopkins stars in this biopic about Alfred Hitchcock’s struggles to make Psycho. Also with Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston, Toni...
Film Shorts
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Dream House (PG-13) Daniel Craig stars in this horror film as a father who uncovers murderous past events in the New England house...
The Top 10
This past year, I spent more time in multiplexes than anyone who doesn’t work for a movie theater, and I didn’t get sick. Vaccinations...
Film Shorts
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Legion (R) Paul Bettany stars in this thriller as the Archangel Michael, who descends to Earth to save a group of people in a...
BlacKkKlansman: Undercover Brother
During this decade’s great wave of African-American filmmaking, one figure has been curiously and conspicuously absent: Spike Lee. He has always been bedeviled by...
