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Courier: Moscow Mule
Middlebrow films like The Courier were already having a tough enough time before the pandemic. Since it hit, everything that has come out has...
Film Shorts
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Green Zone (R) Matt Damon stars in this thriller as a U.S. Army officer in the early days of the Iraq war who goes...
Film Shorts
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Atomic Blonde (R) Charlize Theron stars in this action thriller as a British spy trying to track down a killer of Western agents in...
Talk Show
Criterion Collection recently released a spiffy two-disc edition of Louise Malle’s ”My Dinner with Andre,” the love-it-or-hate-it 1981 gabfest between actor-playwright Wallace Shawn and...
Whole Lotta Bunny
Good luck snagging a ticket for the upcoming final weekend of Theatre Arlington’s revival of Mary Chase’s sweet n’ strange 1944 comedy ”Harvey”. It’s...
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2009
This post is for anyone who sat through the Transformers sequel and concluded that film writing is dead. I was privileged enough to see...
Last Black Man: I Left My Heart
Of all the great African-American movies I’ve seen in this decade, The Last Black Man in San Francisco is the hardest to categorize. It’s...
Don’t Worry Darling: There Is No Victory
I don’t usually get into the particulars of how I do my job, because I don’t think you’ll find it very interesting. Today, though,...
The Boys Next Door
I come to sing the praises of Nicholas Stoller. The director of the uproariously funny Neighbors isn’t famous like the movie’s stars, and he...
R.I.P., Frederick Wiseman
This past Monday, the news came from Massachusetts that Frederick Wiseman passed away at the age of 96. Most of the film press was...
