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Mar 25, 2020
Digging Dirt
A difficult part of this quarantine stems from an essential loss of American identity: If you’re not working, and you can’t buy things, who...
Mar 19, 2020
Failed Goldilocks
It's fair to describe Hillary as a warts-and-all portrait. The four-part documentary shuttles between the 2016 presidential campaign and Hillary Rodham...
Feb 19, 2020
Flammable Romance
The two-woman, huntress-gets-captured-by-the-game romance Portrait of a Lady on Fire offers a lot, particularly ravishing color that makes the actresses look like Fragonard paintings,...
Feb 5, 2020
Starry Night
This year, the Oscars are like the cocktail bars at too many of today's receptions: no-host.
One by one, some two-dozen stars will climb up...
Jan 22, 2020
‘Aeronauts’ keeps its head in the clouds
The gallant and thrilling The Aeronauts bypasses the problem of telling an adventure story about Victorians with large beards by making a romantic fiction...
Jan 15, 2020
War Stories
On April 16 in the year 1917, during the First World War, a pair of dozing English soldiers—Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman)—are...
Jan 1, 2020
Best on Screen
The top 10 films of 2019, in alphabetical order: The Big Hack, Captive State, The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit, Joker, The Lighthouse, 1917, Once Upon...
Dec 24, 2019
Rise & Fall
As you're composing yourself after the brassy blast of John Williams' theme song with its 42 years of weight behind it, here come the...