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The story of how the Nazis looted Europe’s storehouses of art masterpieces is a compelling one, whose salient details only came to light within...
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Effie Gray (PG-13) Dakota Fanning stars in this biography of the 19th-century Englishwoman and her attempts to free herself from a sexless marriage to...
Film Shorts
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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (NR) Rinko Kikuchi (Babel) stars in David Zellner’s drama as a Japanese woman who travels to Minnesota to search for...
Tag, You’re It
Ever since It Follows debuted at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, horror fans haven’t been able to stop talking about it. Maybe you were...
Throw Away the Key
The same week that It Follows (see: above review) treats rape as a horrifying thing, we have Get Hard, which thinks rape is hilarious,...
Considering Taraji P. Henson
Like many of you, I just got through the season finale of Empire after enough stuff happened in the first 12 episodes to make...
Out of Faction
Example No. 54,903,812 of the movie industry’s glass ceiling: While Hollywood is coming around at a snail’s pace to the idea that a fantasy-adventure...
Death on the Wheel
I can’t get enough of Shakespeare’s so-called “problem plays” like Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, and Cymbeline, and I’m always eager to see...
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Metalhead (NR) Ragnar Bragason’s drama stars Þorbjörg Helga Þorgilsdóttir as a 1980s Icelandic teenager whose grief over her dead brother leads her to become...
An Incomplete History of Cinderella at the Movies
I mentioned in my review of the new Cinderella that the story had been told many times before, modernized, tweaked, and otherwise adulterated in...
