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 • Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias
A Note to Our Readers: The Reveal is moving.
But it's really not that big of a deal.
 • Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias
Open Question: Have you used the movies as a travel agent?
Sometimes escapism can give you a real place to escape.
 • Scott Tobias
In Review: '28 Years Later,' 'Elio'
A zombie classic gets a decades-later sequel that doesn't play by the rules and Pixar delivers a pleasant kids' film.l
 • Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias
An Interview with Gheorghe Zamfir, Master of the Pan Flute and Film Soundtrack Hero
The famed Romanian musician discusses his contributions to the world of film.
 • Keith Phipps
#59: ‘Sans Soleil’: The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time
Chris Marker's unclassifiable cinematic essay circles the world in search of wonders while pondering the nature of memory, history, and time.
 • Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias
Open Question: What's the greatest concert performance captured on film?
It's not easy to capture energy and power of a live concert. But sometimes everything comes together anyway.
 • Keith Phipps
In Review: 'Materialists,' 'Echo Valley'
Celine Song follows up 'Past Lives' with a look at love and money in modern New York while Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney try to spark some acting…
 • Keith Phipps and Scott Tobias
Michael Crichton's Corporate Freakouts
At the peak of his popularity in the mid-'90s, Michael Crichton issued dire warnings about questionable threats to corporate culture.
 • Scott Tobias
Jaws, Too: The Story of ‘Sharks’ Treasure,’ the Other Shark Movie Released in 1975
Fifty years ago, a movie about deadly shark encounters arrived in theaters after a long, difficult shoot. No, not that one.
 • Keith Phipps
Open Question: What movies get online life right?
We live much of our lives online these days. Which films have captured that feeling?
 • Keith Phipps
In Review: 'The Life of Chuck,' 'Ballerina'
Two films from the worlds of Stephen King and John Wick deliver on their brands.
 • Scott Tobias and Keith Phipps
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