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In Review: 'Joker: Folie à Deux,' 'Saturday Night'
Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix revive the Clown Prince of Crime in a musical whatsit of a sequel while Jason Reitman revisits the earliest days of…
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Keith Phipps
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Scott Tobias
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Catching Up With the Critics (Part I)
Turning to the professionals to seek out the great, unseen movies of the last nine months.
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Scott Tobias
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Worst to Best: 42 Songs from Movies That Made the Pop Charts, 1965-1969
Songs from and inspired by movies were all over the radio in the second half of the 1960s. Some were great. Some less so. And some quite weird.
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Keith Phipps
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September 2024

Open Question: What's an unmade movie you really wish had gotten made?
It’s been an interesting few years for long-in-the-works films finally seeing the light of day.
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Keith Phipps
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In Review: 'Megalopolis,' 'The Wild Robot'
In the works since the 1970s, Francis Ford Coppola's self-funded passion project arrives in theaters and Dreamworks' latest stars a robot trapped in a…
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Keith Phipps
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Scott Tobias
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Billy & Timmy & Todd
In Todd Solondz's 'Happiness' and 'Life During Wartime,' the Maplewood boys, Billy and Timmy, grow up in a family poisoned by deviance and denial. What…
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Scott Tobias
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#67 (tie): ‘Andrei Rublev’: The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time
Andrei Tarkovsky's second feature offers an episodic, largely invented look at the life of a 15th century icon creator amidst an unsparing depiction of…
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Keith Phipps
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Scott Tobias
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Open Question: Have you had any discoveries (or reconsiderations) of the Sight & Sight Top 100 movies we've covered so far?
With our conversation on Andrei Rublev next week, Keith and I will be 29 films deep into our years-long project to discuss every movie in the 20…
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Scott Tobias
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In Review: 'The Substance,' 'His Three Daughters,' 'Wolfs'
Coralie Fargeat's Cannes-winning sci-fi/horror film is a gruesome tour-de-force for Demi Moore while other top-flight actors struggle to keep lesser…
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Scott Tobias
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Keith Phipps
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The Movie of the Moment: John Frankenheimer's 'Seconds'
With 'The Substance' and 'A Different Man' opening this weekend, the influence of Frankenheimer's grim cult classic about a man switching to a younger…
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Scott Tobias
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Marjorie Also Known as Midge
In ‘Vertigo,’ Barbara Bel Geddes plays a lovesick sidekick. What could have been a thankless part becomes as rich and moving as any role in the film.
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Keith Phipps
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In Review: 'Speak No Evil,' 'My Old Ass'
A daring Danish thriller gets an American remake and an indie comedy with a different sort of doubling proves sneakily profound.
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Keith Phipps
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Scott Tobias
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