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Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan’s lean, gripping war movie, is a triumph
You needn’t be an expert in history or military strategy to understand right away that the Allied soldiers in Christopher Nolan’s gripping new war drama, Dunkirk, are in enormous peril. Set mostly on...
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Good Time turns Robert Pattinson loose and smothers formula
About 10 years ago, when The Sopranos was ending its six-season run on HBO, my dad told me something that has stuck with me ever since. Explaining why he had stopped watching the show well before its...
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Screen Stealers: Maybe more Blade Runner, more Larry David and more Stranger...
Anyone else thrilled that summer is over? Glad to leave behind three months of sequel after failed franchise after lame formula? Yes, we got Baby Driver, Dunkirk and Good Time, galvanizing formal...
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Mother! is as crazy as you want it to be
There’s a reason that 100 percent of the marketing campaign for Darren Aronofsky’s new film — Mother! (starring Jennifer Lawrence in the title role, with the studio preferring that everybody lowercase...
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Blade Runner 2049 stands brilliantly apart from its 1982 parent
Thirty-five years after the release of Blade Runner — a contemplative sci-fi art-house B-noir that failed at the box office (not least because it was a contemplative sci-fi art-house B-noir), only to...
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Brad Norman talks about his doc, The Outhouse The Film, which plays Liberty...
In July 2011, filmmaker Brad Norman announced that he was going to make a film documenting the Outhouse, a punk club in a cornfield three miles east of Massachusetts Street in Lawrence. A Kickstarter...
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Marc Summers talks On Your Marc, ahead of Thursday’s sold-out Alamo screening
To adults of a certain generation, Marc Summers is the laid-back, super-fun uncle they never had. Summers was a Nickelodeon staple of the 1980s and early ’90s, the ringmaster of that cable network’s...
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Boo Tube: Seven non-franchise, psychologically twisted double features for...
Halloween is upon us, in what has turned out to be Hollywood’s biggest year ever for horror. Box office figures indicate that you’ve probably seen the latest and most obvious such flicks. And anyway, I...
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Thor: Ragnarok: Surely they can’t be serious (and thank the gods for that)
When people look back on this era of filmmaking, the movies in the Marvel cinematic universe are likely to define blockbuster: movies that are fantastical, freewheeling, fun — formulaic entertainment...
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For movie characters having a very hard time, 2017 was a very good year
“The world is built on a wall. It separates kind. Tell either side there’s no wall, you bought a war.” — Lt. Joshi (Robin Wright, above), Blade Runner 2049 The best movies of 2017 were those that in...
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