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May 2023
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
47
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
14
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
9
Open Question: When do you know it's time to break up with a film series?
It’s easy to fall in love with a film series, harder to keep that love alive. A Nightmare on Elm Street was one of the movies that made me fall …
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Keith Phipps
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In Review: 'Fast X,' 'Master Gardener'
The reportedly penultimate 'Fast & Furious' offers a tail of revenge while the latest from Paul Schrader explores a long, hard road to redemption.
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Keith Phipps
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Scott Tobias
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'Light Sleeper': The ghostly souls of Paul Schrader
In his 1992 indie drama with Willem Dafoe, Schrader reworked 'Taxi Driver' into another urban tale of alienation and violence. But with a twist.
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Scott Tobias
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Worst to Best: Éric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons
The auteur's quartet of '90s films recently resurfaced in restored prints on The Criterion Channel. They're all great, but we decided to rank them…
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Keith Phipps
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