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The Shrewdly Regenerative Apocalypse of “28 Years Later”
Perhaps because cannibalism comes with the territory, the zombie movie has proved uncommonly immune to a certain strain of critical…
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“Ballerina” Leaps into John Wick’s Bloody World
It’s been instructive to see “Ballerina,” which opens this week, so soon after the new “Mission: Impossible” installment. In the latter,…
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A Joyfully Chaotic Tribute to Pavement in “Pavements”
Rock documentaries and bio-pics have been parodied for nearly as long as they have existed, but there’s a reason for their ingrained…
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“Invention” Probes the American Mind in the Post-Truth Era
Whether a film is a documentary or a fictional drama, all modern cinema is in a sense docu-fictional, because most viewers know that a…
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A Glow of Discovery in the Chill of Sundance
The Sundance Film Festival has long established itself as the most important showcase for American independent cinema, piping out work…
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“The Fishing Place” Puts History Into the Present Tense
The best filmmakers, looking to the past, see the future. The Holocaust and the Nazi menace to Europe have been filmmakers’ mainstays for…
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The Empty Ambition of “The Brutalist”
Most filmmakers, like most people, have interesting things to say about what they’ve experienced and observed. But the definition of an…
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The Best Films of 2024
The two most daring and accomplished American movies of the year are also, at first glance, the most dissimilar. RaMell Ross’s “Nickel…