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Constitutionally averse to overblown “big moment” movie clichés, low-budget filmmaker Andrew Bujalski has carved himself a niche out of understated, Continue reading →
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Infinitely Polar Bear
Set in the late 1970s, Maya Forbes’ new movie stars Mark Ruffalo as a bipolar Boston dad who takes dubious Continue reading →
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The Overnight
Not yet settled in LA, young Seattle-transplant parents Alex (Adam Scott) and Emily (Taylor Schilling) optimistically embark on a pizza-party Continue reading →
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The New Rijksmuseum
Oeke Hoogendijk’s highly absorbing documentary probes the decade-long renovation of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, an institution as locally renowned for its world-class Continue reading →
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A Poem Is a Naked Person
It took almost half a century for southern rocker Leon Russell to see the beauty in Les Blank’s abstract documentary Continue reading →
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Do I Sound Gay
Feeling insecure after a breakup, journalist and gay activist David Thorpe started obsessing about why he and his tribe so Continue reading →
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Irrational Man
Woody Allen’s new movie has Joaquin Phoenix as a rumpled and joyless philosophy professor, spouting Kant and flasking single malt Continue reading →
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Tangerine
The important thing to know about writer-director Sean Baker’s film isn’t that it was shot entirely on an iPhone, or that Continue reading →
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A Lego Brickumentary
Claiming a dumbly facetious faux-genre all its own, Kief Davidson and Daniel Junge’s film won’t quite call itself a documentary Continue reading →
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The Look of Silence
Joshua Oppenheimer’s new documentary thrives on the kind of stuff you can’t make up. That is, the awful kind. Adi, Continue reading →
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Dark Places
Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn’s other bestseller becomes a movie courtesy of writer-director Gilles Paquet-Brenner, a French filmmaker with a Continue reading →
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Cop Car
In director Jon Watts’ proudly spartan thriller, two schoolboys (James Freedson-Jackson, Hays Wellford) run away from small-town Colorado, only to Continue reading →
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Being Evel
Daniel Junge’s likable, longish documentary opens with Johnny Knoxville informing us that “going for it” is part of the culture Continue reading →
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Agnès Varda in California
Agnès Varda first came to California in 1967, when her fellow-director husband Jacques Demy’s international hit The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Continue reading →
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Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Lately Alex Gibney’s big project has been to sort through the lures and lies of huge DIY personality cults. Not Continue reading →
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The Martian
This otherworldly adventure yarn, with Matt Damon as a sort of Robinson Crusoe on Mars, might be the least self-serious Continue reading →
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The Tribe
Well, who needs dialogue, anyway? Just look at Shaun the Sheep Movie. You might need to look at Shaun the Sheep Movie in Continue reading →
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Sicario
Prowling back and forth across the U.S.-Mexico border, stirring up dread, Denis Villeneuve’s drug-war-quagmire movie puts on very serious airs. Continue reading →
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How Don Hertzfeldt Breaks Your Heart and Blows Your Mind
In five easy or perhaps mercilessly difficult steps.
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Joseph Losey’s Great Estrangements
This American expat director had a way with outsiderhood.
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