I had not paid close attention to what Almodóvar was up to during what I call his “Hollywood” period: not that he “went Hollywood,” but the films that start with Women on the Verge of a Nervous ...

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David Cronenberg's The Shrouds and Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door find both auteurs still playing around the ...

“The guy practically lives on a Clue board,” grumbles a cop (Lakeith Stanfield) early in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out. He’s talking about Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), a renowned mystery author ...

The moody music and remote setting signal horrors on the horizon, though they turn out to be less spectacular in form than one might expect. In the car, a close-up observes Jeff’s hand nervously ...

The past is full of surprises. It was news to me—bracingly delivered by Northern Lights (1978)—that more than a century ago, North Dakota birthed a socialist-inspired farm-labor movement that sought ...

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In Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell’s documentary feature DIRECT ACTION, the viewer is dropped into the Notre-Dame-des-Landes commune, one of the most controversial ZAD (Zone à Défendre, or Zone to ...

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