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Lawrence of Arabia

loaded question: how long does a film have to be before it’s too long for you to sit through?

Mon, Dec 13, 2021
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Tell us about the really long films you have endured, either at home or in theaters.

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker movie review: the galaxy isn’t far far away, it’s just very small

Thu, Jan 09, 2020
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Kudos to J.J. Abrams for doing something extraordinary: he has made me not care about Star Wars for the first time ever. I’m kind of relieved that it’s over, because it has stopped being fun.

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Queen of the Desert movie review: Gertrude Bell gets forgotten again

Wed, Apr 26, 2017
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This may be Werner Herzog’s most conventional film, but its mostly untold true story knows what it means for a woman to choose a life of adventure and intellect.

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Letters from Baghdad documentary review: Gertrude Bell, the original Lawrence of Arabia

Fri, Apr 21, 2017
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One of the most cinematically beautiful documentaries ever is a phenomenal portrait of a shamefully forgotten woman who helped shape political history.

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more men I am officially tired of being asked to sympathize with in movies

Wed, Jan 13, 2016
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Update! Another year, another slate of films proving there is almost nothing that men can do, think, or be that The Movies will not deem worthy of a story.

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The Hateful Eight movie review: all hat, no cattle

Mon, Jan 11, 2016
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Inexcusably self-indulgent. Tarantino gratifies his enormous self-love and his amusement at his own genius at the expense of all else.

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OFCS names The Godfather the best Oscar Best Picture ever

Fri, Mar 07, 2014
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The members of the Online Film Critics Society — of which I am one — have jointly ranked the 86 movies that have won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Ridley Scott and Michael Fassbender talk Prometheus

Sun, May 20, 2012
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I promised to share a few of the juiciest tidbits from the Prometheus talent Q&A I attended last month. And here they are.

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Black Gold (trailer)

Fri, Feb 24, 2012
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It’s Lawrence of Arabia with oil! And Antonio Banderas! Yum.

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Melancholia (review)

Wed, Nov 02, 2011
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Depression is like an enormous rogue planet entering your solar system and ripping your world apart…

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