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Filth (R) James McAvoy stars in this thriller about a crooked British cop who schemes to win himself a promotion at the expense of...
From Pop Culture to Cop Culture
Growing up as a Black kid in Kansas City, TV writer Aaron Rahsaan Thomas had a love-hate relationship with cop TV shows. As fun...
Mother and Child: Missing Girls
Rodrigo García makes his living as a director of episodes of TV shows such as In Treatment and Six Feet Under. However, the son...
R.I.P., Sidney Lumet
"Good style, to me, is unseen style." The film director Sidney Lumet was quoted as saying so in the New York Times obituary notice...
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...
Everything’s F9
My problem with the Fast and the Furious series was always that the movies were never silly enough. If you’re going to become a...
Dangerous Method: Jungian Slip
More than 50 years after his death, Carl Jung seems to have reasserted himself in the zeitgeist, with the recent publication of his famously...
R.I.P., Om Puri
I had to take a break from my recapping of the films of 2016 to report on some sad news out of India. The...
Amazing Amy
By now, lots of ink has been spilled about how Ben Affleck’s years as a pop-culture punchline have suited him for the lead role...
Monsieur Lazhar: Bonjour, Classe
The French-Canadian drama Monsieur Lazhar was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film this past year, and there were observers who tipped...
