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Adolf Hitler

Nude Tuesday movie review: nonsense, not quite inspired (Tribeca Film Festival 2022)

Fri, Jun 17, 2022
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The wacky-yet-heartfelt comedy just about works; the gibberish dialogue, not so much. But this could be the makings of a crowdsourced cult fave, if playful viewers end up creating their own subtitles.

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Munich: The Edge of War movie review: they’ll try to thwart Hitler!

Thu, Jan 20, 2022
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Dull, earnest fanfic full of halfhearted secret-agent shenanigans and a misguided rethink of Chamberlain the appeaser. Same-old rote, by-the-number World War II–ing we’ve seen countless times before.

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curated: “Donald Trump‘s Presidency Was Supposed to Be Great for Art. It Wasn‘t”

Tue, Jan 05, 2021
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I personally have found it very difficult to focus on anything creative in the past four years (and it only got worse in 2020). And I wasn’t alone…

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Capital in the Twenty-First Century documentary review: eat the rich (cuz they’re eating us)

Mon, May 04, 2020
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Attention, social justice warriors. French economist Thomas Piketty’s howl-of-rage academic treatise is now a hugely engaging documentary, eye-opening and brutally entertaining. Man the barricades!

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curated: always be nyuk-nyuk-ing Nazis

Wed, May 22, 2019
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How have I never heard about these Three Stooges shorts before?

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The 15:17 to Paris movie review: hell on wheels

Mon, Feb 12, 2018
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Clint Eastwood turns a terrorist attack into a bit of post-hoc reality “entertainment” with the stunt casting of the actual heroes as themselves in a stilted, tone-deaf piece of Christian-American propaganda.

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The Death of Stalin movie review: the great dictator

Wed, Oct 25, 2017
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Audacious, outrageous, bleakly funny. Not since Charlie Chaplin sent up Hitler and invited us to laugh at terrible reality has there been a movie like this.

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Fast & Furious 8 (aka The Fate of the Furious) movie review: notes from the critics’ ward

Wed, Apr 12, 2017
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EMPs and nukular codes and cyber crap and submarines, oh my! “What does this have to do with us?” Michelle Rodriguez cries, and I’m like I know, right?

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Anthropoid movie review: human-shaped but lacking in human substance

Mon, Sep 12, 2016
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Familiar-feeling tale of a real-life plot to kill a high-ranking Nazi in 1942 Prague manages some suspense thrills but mostly misses the emotional ones.

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a few thoughts about The Man in the High Castle S1

Mon, Nov 23, 2015
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Nazis: I hate these guys. But I adore this show.

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