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In Review: 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,' 'The Boogeyman'
The animated Spider-Verse expands its web without losing any threads while a '70s Stephen King story gets a very 2023 adaptation.
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Scott Tobias
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Keith Phipps
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The '80s in 40: ‘Stripes’ (June 26, 1981)
'Stripes' helped confirm Bill Murray as a movie star by packaging his rebelliousness in a fundamentally safe comedy filled with half-hearted jabs at…
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Keith Phipps
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#90 (tie): ‘Ugetsu’: The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time
Kenji Mizoguchi's 1953 masterpiece is a devastating and timeless ghost story about the cost of war.
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Keith Phipps
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Scott Tobias
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Open Question: What are looking forward to seeing this summer?
With movie chains still sputtering in the wake of the pandemic and the streaming boom, and Hollywood studios clinging harder to sequels, remakes…
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Scott Tobias
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In Review: 'The Little Mermaid,' 'About My Father'
Hollywood leans on past hits this week as Ariel the mermaid becomes part of a live-action world and Robert De Niro meets the parents.
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Scott Tobias
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Keith Phipps
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The New Cult Canon: 'Memories of Murder'
Bong Joon-ho's tonally daring procedural revisits South Korea's first serial murder case.
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Scott Tobias
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Tom Hanks’s Debut Novel is Sweet, Dull, and Weirdly Reassuring
The story of a behind-the-scenes look at the production of a superhero blockbuster doubles as a love letter to Hollywood's past while offering an…
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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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