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'The Lobster,' by writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos
Love in the time of The Lobster
'The Lobster's' central question sounds hypothetical: If you were turned into an animal because you couldn't find love, what animal would you be? In Yorgos Lanthimos' film, the answer can change your life.
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Luca Guadagnino's 'A Bigger Splash'
Making waves from France to Sicily
An Italian remake of Jacques Deray's 1969 'La Piscine,' Luca Guadagnino's 'A Bigger Splash' brings star power, heat, intrigue, and lust to a Sicilian island.
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Remembering Julius LaRosa
More than the guy who was fired on air
Bruce Klauber recalls the life of Julius LaRosa. More than the guy who was fired on air by Arthur Godfrey, more than a second-string Sinatra, "he was a good singer and a good man."
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Ciro Guerra's film 'Embrace of the Serpent'
Colonized and colonizers meet in the pre-WWII Amazon
In Colombian filmmaker Ciro Guerra's third film, colonized and colonizers meet in the pre-WWII Amazon. An indigenous tribe battles for its survival.
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Ken Burns examines ‘Jackie Robinson’
Let my people play ball
When Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball in 1947, he confronted mindless bigotry, especially in Philadelphia. But some white Philadelphian rejoiced, as I can personally attest.
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'The Witch' by Robert Eggers
A special kind of dread
Instead of jump scares, the increasing sense of dread in The Witch arises from the uncertainty of how people are going to behave.
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Grímur Hákonarson's 'Rams'
Hard as horns, soft as fleece
Rams draws you in with its vast, cold landscapes and hooks you with a simple story of two old hearts thawing out.
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Sundance TV’s 'Hap and Leonard'
Politics and the buddy film
Hap and Leonard depends on the clichéd Hollywood notion that folks at the bottom of the economic ladder are all actually remarkably intelligent, witty, and, under the skin, brothers in capitalistic striving.
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Andrew Haigh's '45 Years'
45 years of marriage and a postscript of unanswered questions
45 Years is like a Rorschach inkblot onto which we can project many layers of meaning. We know that Geoff and Kate are stunned and puzzled, but much of what is going on inside each of them is left to our imagination.
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Inarritu's 'The Revenant'
We are all savages
The Revenant is an example of a microgenre, the Ghost Western, a film in which a tormented white, male protagonist must avenge himself so his ghost can rest.
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