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April 13, 2022

The First Lady pulls back the curtain on the East Wing

Despite three excellent performances, Showtime’s new limited series is hardly groundbreaking. 
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July 4, 2021

KinoKultur: Political Vaudeville in Sweet Liberty and F.T.A.

Looking at the radical potential of vaudeville through its appearances in a farce and a long-suppressed documentary.
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October 10, 2020

NYFF58: “French Exit” is a nice looking but detached trip overseas

Michelle Pfeiffer dominates Azazel Jacobs’ dry comedy about a formerly wealthy widow who travels to Paris for one last hurrah.
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February 15, 2020

One Woman Finds Her Way in a Man’s World in “Married to the Mob”

Jonathan Demme directed Michelle Pfeiffer in a winning performance in a feminist take on screwball comedy.
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October 24, 2019

Decency is Stifling in “The Age of Innocence”

Martin Scorsese's scintillating period romance is a Victorian treatise on the sufficating gulf between desire and decorum.
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October 15, 2019

“Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” Helps Break the Disney Remake Spell

Among the Mouse House's stable of live-action remakes, this sequel to the 2014 prequel goes down a lot smoother than its contemporaries.
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March 18, 2019

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Late-Period Tim Burton

Tim Burton's recent films are dismissed as confused (dark) shadows of his career heights, but they contain brief glimmers of the filmmaker's return to form.
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March 9, 2019

With “Batman Returns”, Tim Burton Unleashed A Dark Superhero Circus

Tim Burton's superhero sequel saw the endlessly strange auteur run away with big studio money to make the most relentlessly weird comic book film ever.
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June 27, 2018

Ant-Man and the Wasp Review: Marvel’s Latest Shrinks the Stakes

Marvel’s first placeholder till the next Infinity War is a more assured caper comedy than the first Ant-Man, but it’s almost too lightweight to make..