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Mar 2023
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Chinatown (1974)

C hinatown is a gloriously grim masterpiece.  It functions both as homage to the film noir heyday of the 1940s, and as a testament to the socio-cultural malaise of Nixonian…
09
Mar 2023
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EO (2022)

O ne of the most remarkable things about EO is how such a passive main character can swell our hearts with empathy.  Take the scene where EO the donkey stares…
24
Feb 2023
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The King’s Speech (2010)

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death.  This means…if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing…
24
Jan 2023
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To Leslie (2022)

T o Leslie sent my thoughts back to a similar film, Hillbilly Elegy.  In that middling, piddling, manipulative hooey, millionaire actors slap on prosthetics and moth-eaten flannel.  For two hours, they…
16
Dec 2022
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The Fabelmans (2022)

W hen he directed Jaws in 1975, Steven Spielberg was hailed as a wunderkind and an overnight sensation.  The truth is that Spielberg had been cranking out movies for most of his…
09
Dec 2022
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Tár (2022)

A s we meet Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), somewhere in the deep of middle age, she's already a woman with nothing left to prove.  When she sits for an interview…

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