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The New Cult Canon: 'The Counselor'
After an eight-year absence, the series returns with a Cormac McCarthy-scripted crime thriller that philosophizes endlessly (and beautifully).
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Scott Tobias
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The New Cult Canon: 'Speed Racer'
In 2008, I gave The Wachowskis' super-charged eyeball-stabber a "C." I wasn't yet ready for the future.
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Scott Tobias
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The New Cult Canon: 'Mandy'
Panos Cosmatos' hallucinogenic, retro-'80s revenge thriller offers the full Nicolas Cage experience.
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Scott Tobias
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The New Cult Canon: 'Mother!'
Darren Aronofsky's deranged horror allegory may have repelled audiences, but it's perhaps the most audacious studio movie of the current century.
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Scott Tobias
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The New Cult Canon: 'Go'
With his 'Road House' remake hitting Amazon this week, it's a good time to look back on Doug Liman's superior twist on the 'Pulp Fiction' knock-off.
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Scott Tobias
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The New Cult Canon: 'Drive'
Nicolas Winding Refn's polarizing genre pastiche was a commercial hit, but it wasn't engineered that way.
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Scott Tobias
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The New Cult Canon: 'Unfriended'
Through a conceit that confines the action to a teenage girl's monitor desktop, this horror film does its part to reinvent the medium for the masses.
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Scott Tobias
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The New Cult Canon: 'Trouble Every Day'
Very few reviewers—your humble New Cult Canonizer excluded—had kind things to say about Claire Denis' grisly erotic horror film. But as the Denis cult…
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Scott Tobias
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The New Cult Canon: ‘The Empty Man’
An unusual horror film taps into an of-the-moment sense of disconnection and confusion.
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Scott Tobias
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The New Cult Canon: 'Support the Girls'
Andrew Bujalski's comedy about a day-in-the-life of a boobs-and-brews "breastaurant" is one of the great modern films about American labor.
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Scott Tobias
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The New Cult Canon: 'Under the Skin'
Jonathan Glazer's radical, stripped-down science fiction film follows an alien changed by her contact with humanity.
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Scott Tobias
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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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