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An Affair to Die For (NR) Jake Abel and Claire Forlani play adulterous spouses whose affair leads to violence. Also with Nathan Cooper, Melina...
Destroyer: Violent Cop
Movies so often depict loose-cannon cops as heroes, men (it’s always men) who work for the law but happily ignore it to leave the...
Kid Who Would Be King: Alex and the Apocalypse
Ever since I saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail at the age of 13, it has ruined all other movies about King Arthur...
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Cold War (R) Nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, this black-and-white Polish drama by Paweł Pawlikowski (Ida) is about a composer and a...
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Canal Street (PG-13) This legal drama stars Mykelti Williamson as a lawyer forced to defend his son (Bryshere Y. Gray) when he’s suspected of...
Beale Street: Dusky Dream Harlem
The movies have mostly neglected James Baldwin, but the 20th-century novelist and essayist foresaw everything that’s happening in Trump’s America, so it’s good that...
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Anthem of a Teenage Prophet (NR) Cameron Monaghan stars in this thriller as a teenager who becomes a social outcast when he discovers he...
Best Documentaries of ’18
I wanted to pay tribute to as many films as possible this year, which is why I left the docs off my Top 10...
The Best Lead Performances of 2018
Always nice to see some new faces make this list, both in the sense of "new to this list" and new to our screens....
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2018
Here we are once again with my favorite recurring feature of my end-of-year coverage: The best movie dialogue of 2018. Ground rules for all...
