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Don’t you recognize me? Chen Daoming and Gong Li in “Coming Home.”

Zhang Yimou’s 'Coming Home'

Family breakdown, Chinese-style
Zhang Yimou’s Coming Home moves like a strong poem — slowly and delicately, yet with power.

Richard da Silva

Articles 4 minute read
Lizzy Caplan and Michael Sheen as Johnson and Masters in “Masters of Sex.” (Photo © 2015 Showtime)

Showtime's 'Masters of Sex'

Sex, lies, and Showtime
The extent of how fast and loose Showtime's Masters of Sex adaptation plays with the truth makes Oliver Stone appear a better bet to satisfy Diogenes than any of those responsible for this fib-a-thon.
Bob Levin

Bob Levin

Articles 5 minute read
The ultimate geeky Everyman: Matt Damon in “The Martian.” (Photo by Aidan Monaghan - © 2015 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.)

Ridley Scott's 'The Martian'

Science in a leading role
The Martian is far more than rah-rah flag-waving space-geek boosterism. It is, instead, a paean to humanity's exploratory drive, survival instinct, and most of all, intelligence.
Mark Wolverton

Mark Wolverton

Articles 6 minute read
Fetching as a barracuda: Johnny Depp in ‘Black Mass.’ (© 2015 - Warner Bros. Pictures)

Johnny Depp in Scott Cooper’s ‘Black Mass’

A study in menace
Other actors have had a go at the Whitey Bulger persona, but they were mainly based on Bulger. Johnny Depp is Whitey Bulger, having spent two and a half hours daily getting into the prosthetic face that coldly surveys his Southie criminal kingdom and perfecting the Boston accent with which he delivers his satanic commands.
Bob Ingram

Bob Ingram

Articles 4 minute read
Count the pores (Ed Helms in 2015's "Vacation")

There's more to movies than special effects

Cartoonized: A rant on the digital age
Hollywood needs to relearn to use lower-tech, more creative ways to draw in audiences and tell stories. Just because we have the ability to use special effects technologies doesn’t mean we always should.

Ryan Dellaquila

Articles 4 minute read
Hannibal + Will 4ever. (Photo by NBC - © 2014 NBCUniversal Media, LLC)

Bryan Fuller's 'Hannibal' (second review)

Sympathy for the devil
Hannibal is a retelling of Goethe’s Faust in which FBI profiler Will Graham/Faust and Dr. Hannibal Lecter/Mephistopheles fall in love.

Paula Berman

Articles 7 minute read

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A shocking performance: Brando with Maria Schneider in “Last Tango in Paris.” (© 1972 – MGM)

'Listen to Me Marlon' (second review)

Still asking questions of Marlon Brando
Stevan Riley’s documentary Listen to Me Marlon impressionistically and unevenly surveys the career of America’s greatest film actor, and its ultimate wreckage.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 5 minute read
Devolving to name-calling: Buckley and Vidal. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives - © 2010 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.)

'Best of Enemies': The Buckley-Vidal debates of 1968
The documentary Best of Enemies revisits 1968’s game-changing TV debate between two cultural titans, William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal.

Carol Rocamora

Articles 3 minute read
“After he gave us Vito Corleone, I kept waiting for him to play Lear.” Brando in “The Godfather” (© 1972 - Paramount Pictures)

'Listen to Me Marlon' directed by Stevan Riley

The genius of Marlon Brando
In the new documentary Listen to Me Marlon, if we didn’t know it already, we are convinced of the genius of Marlon Brando and the significance of his artistic contribution.
Joanna Rotté

Joanna Rotté

Articles 5 minute read
Yoda-speak and Batman whispers: Vaughn and Farrell. (© 2015 HBO)

Second season of 'True Detective' (second review)

Fortune cookie dialogue and a plot out of 1985
Season one of True Detective was flawed but extremely enjoyable. I watched season two hoping week by week that it would get better. It didn’t.

Tara Lynn Johnson

Articles 3 minute read