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In Review: 'The Creator,' 'Fair Play'
AI clashes with humanity in a futuristic sci-fi action film while a different sort of conflict powers an intense drama about workplace romance under…
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Keith Phipps
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Scott Tobias
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'Saw' Revisited
Back in 2004, I sat stone-faced as a Midnight Madness audience was whipped into a frenzy over the first 'Saw.' Was I missing something?
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Scott Tobias
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Kafka, Polaroids, and Rock and Roll: Three 2023 Rediscoveries
This year's restorations and re-releases have included an Orson Welles take on a literary classic, an overlooked gem from the '90s, and a fun time…
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Keith Phipps
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Open Question: What smaller or overlooked movie from earlier this year should people seek out?
Earlier this week, I wrapped up my annual catch-up feature on the most acclaimed (according to Metacritic) films that I missed in 2023. As alway…
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Scott Tobias
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In Review: 'Flora and Son,' 'It Lives Inside'
This week's films draw from familiar wells as John Carney returns to the musical formula of 'Once' and 'Begin Again' and a horror film on an Indian…
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Scott Tobias
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Keith Phipps
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The Best Films of the Year So Far (* According to Metacritic, According to Me): Part II
The top of the charts offers another wide range of experiences, though three films, including the best of the best, deal sympathetically with women in…
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Scott Tobias
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#88 (tie): 'Chungking Express': The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time
Made during the director's downtime on another movie, Wong Kar-wai's 1994 breakthrough captures a Hong Kong filled with characters driven half-mad by…
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Keith Phipps
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Scott Tobias
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What movie perfectly captures a time and place?
Next week, Scott and I will be covering Wong Kar-Wai’s Chungking Express. It’s a film of many virtues, including documenting the bustling multic…
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Keith Phipps
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In Review: 'A Haunting in Venice,' 'Dumb Money,' 'Cassandro'
Branagh takes on Agatha Christie (again), Craig Gillespie revisits the GameStop stock rush, and Gael Garcia Bernal dons tights and make-up in a Mexican…
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Keith Phipps
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Scott Tobias
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The Best Films of the Year (* According to Metacritic, According to Me): Part I
My annual mid-ish year round-up of acclaimed films I missed includes two dramas about green energy coming to rural Spain and a heartrending doc about…
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Scott Tobias
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The Streaming Era’s Classic Animation Problem (and Why It Looks Like Only Disney Is Trying to Solve It)
Technology has the potential to put swathes of golden age cartoons at our fingertips. So why is it mostly disappearing instead?
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Keith Phipps
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When do the differences between true stories and the movies they inspire become uncomfortable?
By sheer coincidence, a couple of different items we published at The Reveal this week ended up touching on some similar issues. Scott’s Wednesd…
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Keith Phipps
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