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What is the most special DVD/Blu-ray special feature?
Earlier this week, I wrote a piece about the director’s cut of Peter Bogdanovich’s Texasville, a black-and-white version that runs 28-minutes lo…
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In Review: 'Poor Things,' 'The Boy and the Heron'
The fantastical, unmistaken worlds of Yorgos Lanthimos and Hayao Miyazaki.
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Keith Phipps
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Scott Tobias
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Written on the Wind: The Director's Cut of 'Texasville'
The new Criterion edition of 'The Last Picture Show' includes a black-and-white cut of its 1990 sequel that's almost 30 minutes longer. It's worth a…
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Scott Tobias
The 15 Best Movie Posters of 2023
Contemporary movie posters are boring and all look the same — except when they don't.
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Keith Phipps
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Open Question: What's your favorite movie about acting?
Todd Haynes’ May December touches on many themes, including the craft of acting and the identity drift that sometimes comes with it. So here’s a…
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Keith Phipps
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In Review: 'May December,' 'Eileen'
Ambiguous and shifting relationships are at the heart of two otherwise strikingly different new movies by Todd Haynes and William Oldroyd.
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Keith Phipps
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Scott Tobias
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The New Cult Canon: 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer'
Yorgos Lanthimos' dry black comedy turns a Greek myth about family sacrifice into potent modern allegory.
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Scott Tobias
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The Rebooting of ‘Blackhat’
Michael Mann’s cyber-thriller seemed destined to fade into obscurity after bombing in 2015. Its champions pushed it toward a different fate.
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Keith Phipps
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In Review: 'Napoleon,' 'Maestro'
Two outsized personalities get extravagant, daring, almost-but-not-quite-entirely-successful biopics.
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Keith Phipps
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Scott Tobias
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#85 (tie): 'The Spirit of the Beehive': The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time
A screening of 'Frankenstein' profoundly reshapes the development of a six-year-old girl in Victor Erice's gorgeous allegorical fantasy set in Franco's…
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Scott Tobias
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Keith Phipps
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What's a movie podcast we should all be listening to?
I think most of our readers know that Scott and I are two co-hosts (with Tasha Robinson and Genevieve Koski) of The Next Picture Show, a podcast…
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In Review: 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,' 'Dream Scenario,' 'Fallen Leaves'
What do The Hunger Games and Aki Kaurismäki have in common? Surprising fourth entries in planned trilogies. Also, Nicolas Cage is the man of your…
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Scott Tobias
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Keith Phipps
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The Reveal
The Reveal
Deeper into movies (and a little TV). Essays, reviews, conversation. Past and present. From the editors of The Dissolve.
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