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Jun 12, 2026
To paraphrase The X-Files: Steven Spielberg wants to believe. He also wants us to believe, fully and consistently, in him—in his ability to suspend skepticism, to use the tools...
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Jun 8, 2026
To paraphrase Lloyd Bridges in Airplane!: looks like the Wayans brothers picked the wrong week to release Scary Movie. Or, at least, the timing could have been better. In theory, the...
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May 29, 2026
When Stanley Kubrick released The Shining in 1980, he was dinged by critics for the film’s relentlessly roving camerawork; “It’s like watching a skater do figure...
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May 4, 2026
In The Devil Wears Prada 2, we catch up with Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) while she’s on her way to the podium to accept an award for her work as an investigative journalist at a...
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Apr 27, 2026
The 32-foot-tall replicas of a defiant, bandolier-clad Michael Jackson commissioned to promote his 1995 double album, HIStory, were thought up by their subject, an imperial edict...
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Apr 7, 2026
Films don’t come much more self-consciously provocative than Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama. It’s a cautionary tale about the power of...
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Mar 9, 2026
Early on in The Bride!, a bulbous, lumbering figure (Christian Bale) who is calling himself Dr. Frankenstein but is pretty obviously the late physician’s creation pays a visit...
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Feb 18, 2026
The quotation marks around the title of Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights are a copy editor’s nightmare, and a savvy filmmaker’s idea of a gimmick, or maybe...
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Jan 20, 2026
“Matters of great concern should be treated lightly,” intones the eponymous hero of Jim Jarmusch’s sublime Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, about a New York City...
Jun 12, 2026To paraphrase The X-Files: Steven Spielberg wants to believe. He also wants us to believe, fully and consistently, in him—in his ability to suspend skepticism, to use the tools...
Jun 8, 2026To paraphrase Lloyd Bridges in Airplane!: looks like the Wayans brothers picked the wrong week to release Scary Movie. Or, at least, the timing could have been better. In theory, the...
May 29, 2026When Stanley Kubrick released The Shining in 1980, he was dinged by critics for the film’s relentlessly roving camerawork; “It’s like watching a skater do figure...
May 4, 2026In The Devil Wears Prada 2, we catch up with Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) while she’s on her way to the podium to accept an award for her work as an investigative journalist at a...
Apr 27, 2026The 32-foot-tall replicas of a defiant, bandolier-clad Michael Jackson commissioned to promote his 1995 double album, HIStory, were thought up by their subject, an imperial edict...
Apr 7, 2026Films don’t come much more self-consciously provocative than Norwegian writer-director Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama. It’s a cautionary tale about the power of...
Mar 9, 2026Early on in The Bride!, a bulbous, lumbering figure (Christian Bale) who is calling himself Dr. Frankenstein but is pretty obviously the late physician’s creation pays a visit...
Feb 18, 2026The quotation marks around the title of Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights are a copy editor’s nightmare, and a savvy filmmaker’s idea of a gimmick, or maybe...
Jan 20, 2026“Matters of great concern should be treated lightly,” intones the eponymous hero of Jim Jarmusch’s sublime Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, about a New York City...