South Korea’s “The Hill of Secrets” is a seemingly simple coming-of-age tale that turns out to be more complex than…
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Armando Iannucci, the genius behind “The Thick of It,” “Veep,” and “The Death of Stalin,” feels like a perfect fit…
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It’s impossible to talk about New Queer Cinema without talking about Gregg Araki, whose low-fi, erotic, playfully surreal style still…
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Sometimes, when I watch a short film, particularly a documentary, I come away feeling that it could have gone on…
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This month, we pay tribute not just to a movie that almost instantly fell out of the public consciousness but to…
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When John Ashton appeared first in Haroula Rose’s “All Happy Families,” now in theaters, I smiled. As he did so…
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Almost exactly forty-seven years ago, I saw Kris Kristofferson for the first time when my two primary interests as a…
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In 1994, right before Quentin Tarantino was about to blow up with his Oscar/Palme d’Or-winning sophomore feature “Pulp Fiction,” he…
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Going into “The Last Days of the Space Age,” I admit I didn’t know much about 1970s Australia. But honestly,…
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The essence of Maggie Smith’s greatness as an actor was in her timing. She could be extravagantly physically expressive, getting…
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