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Superboys of Malegaon movie review: making movies with his friends

Fri, Mar 07, 2025
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Gentle, charming dramedy about pals in middle-of-nowhere India making amateur movies. The giddy glee in this winsome portrait of geeky passion and enduring friendship is all-around infectious.

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The Apprentice movie review: Donald Trump’s origin story as a loser and a user

Thu, Feb 13, 2025
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A portrait of a weak man, humorless and friendless, desperate to be liked, desperate to be seen as someone who matters. Sebastian Stan’s brilliantly disgusting Trump is horrifically riveting.

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Lee movie review: the things she saw, and the way she saw them

Wed, Sep 25, 2024
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It barely scratches the surface of the enormous audacity of WWII photographer Lee Miller, but still this is an important movie. It’s also joyous filmmaking, with terrific performances all around.

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Back to Black movie review: no justice for Amy Winehouse

Thu, May 16, 2024
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Marisa Abela is very good as Amy Winehouse, the one saving grace of this cowardly biopic of the wild and wise musician, which hangs its subject out to dry just as the people closest to her did, too.

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Wicked Little Letters movie review: the cheek is in the mail

Tue, Apr 02, 2024
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An upending of the period costume drama that’s cheerfully indecent, gloriously naughty, and full of female rage at the expectations women operate under. Funny as hell and bursting with impudent energy.

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Society of the Snow (La sociedad de la nieve) movie review: cold hard crash

Fri, Jan 05, 2024
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A stark, haunting adventure, viscerally terrifying, full of despair, informed by the moral and philosophical quandaries of what it takes to sustain oneself in body and spirit in impossible conditions.

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Maestro movie review: changing the tune, masterfully (London Film Festival 2023)

Fri, Dec 01, 2023
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Oh, frabjous film! Bradley Cooper’s astonishing high-wire act feels classic and modern at the same time: immersive and impressionistic, breathtakingly bold. A kick in the pants to mainstream cinema.

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Killers of the Flower Moon movie review: blood for oil (London Film Festival 2023)

Mon, Oct 23, 2023
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A great American filmmaker on a memory-holed chapter of American history at the intersection of colonialism and toxic masculinity. Massive, epic, and essential. Scorches the earth of our complacency.

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Oppenheimer movie review: a particle of concern, a wave of complicity

Thu, Aug 24, 2023
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With human paradoxes at its nucleus, this is a riveting portrait, both intimate and epic, of the self-involved men who think they make the world go round… and too often, tragically, do.

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Eiffel movie review: Gustave’s erection

Wed, Aug 17, 2022
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Comfortably unchallenging French romantic drama, though it does Freudian-slip into implying that the engineer was only inspired to erect his soaring tower when an old flame reawakened his, er, heart.

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