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PSH is marvelous in “The Big Lebowski”

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Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the ultimate lackey in The Coen Brothers’ gleefully silly stoner comedy.

Jonah Koslofsky Posted on January 18, 2021January 18, 2021

“The Glorias” is a run-of-the-mill biopic about a living legend

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Julie Taymor directs Julianne Moore in a frustratingly muted look at the feminist movement icon.

Gena Radcliffe Posted on September 29, 2020September 30, 2020

The “Psycho” remake is an ironically bloodless exercise in technique

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Gus Van Sant’s remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic is a cut-and-paste exercise that plays like little more than a rehash of the original.

Tim Stevens Posted on June 14, 2020June 18, 2020

From the Ranks of the Freaks: “Magnolia” at 20

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Paul Thomas Anderson’s character study baffled, aggravated & emotionally moved a divisive audience.

Gena Radcliffe Posted on December 17, 2019December 16, 2019

After the Wedding Review: A grown-up drama that doesn’t trust its own story

After the Wedding
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This English-language remake of the 2006 Danish drama stops short of having anything interesting to say about its privileged protagonists.

Caroline Siede Posted on August 19, 2019August 15, 2019

“Assassins” Was the Wachowskis’ First Big Break, For Better or Worse

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Before they made their directorial debut, Lana and Lilly Wachowski wrote the Stallone-Banderas actioner Assassins, a far cry from their future work.

Tim Stevens Posted on June 8, 2019August 11, 2020
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