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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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Fox TV's 'Lucifer'
Redeeming the ultimate bad boy
Lucifer is showing promise of something more sophisticated than a simple good vs. evil story set in a flashy fantasy environment. We are seeing a story unfold that questions the very nature of good and evil, and the proper place of both in today’s world.
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'Vinyl' on HBO
Deep tracks
Vinyl is Scorsese at his most Scorsese. Unfortunately, the master offers little that we haven’t seen before.
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FX's 'The People v. O.J. Simpson'
Revisiting the O.J. case
O.J. Simpson was not treated like any other defendant arrested for a double homicide. The characters involved aren’t the suspects you expect in a domestic murder — they’re squares in the crazy quilt of American celebrity.
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'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'
Mr. Darcy slays zombies
It’s hard to get over your first Elizabeth Bennet (Greer Garson) and Mr. Darcy (Laurence Olivier), but Pride and Prejudice and Zombies adds two more candidates to my list of favorites.
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