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Thursday, October 17, 2024

It's A Live: SATURDAY NIGHT

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I suppose it’s fitting that a movie set behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live ’s first episode is only fitfully funny, but coasts along o...
Friday, October 4, 2024

The Last Laugh: JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX

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Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux puts his own Joker on trial and declares it guilty. That makes for a pretty interesting gambit, but awf...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Robot Dreams: TRANSFORMERS ONE and
THE WILD ROBOT

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It’s difficult to care about the Transformers as characters. They’re alien robots that turn into cars. We need them to come to Earth to make...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

The Power Broker: MEGALOPOLIS

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How small our imaginations and expectations have grown as a culture if we have no room to accommodate something as grand and singular—for be...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Stealing Beauty: THE SUBSTANCE

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Look what beauty standards can do to a body. The more desperately one clings to youthful beauty, the faster it slips away. It’s not news tha...
Saturday, September 21, 2024

This is the End: HIS THREE DAUGHTERS

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The only way art can accurately portray death is through absence. So says one of the daughters in His Three Daughters , a movie about estran...
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Reel Life: THE 4:30 MOVIE

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Filmmakers making films about loving film always show you a lot about themselves. Think of Spielberg’s recent Fabelmans in which the young ...
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