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Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat Does More Than Explain the Panama Papers—It’s a Rallying Cry Against Greed

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Joker Wants to Be a Movie About the Emptiness of Our Culture. Instead, It’s a Prime Example of It

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Brad Pitt Can Handle Outer Space But Not His Own Feelings in the Gorgeous Ad Astra

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Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story Understands That No One Outside a Marriage Can Know the Truth of It

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The Suspiria Remake Isn't That Scary. But That's Not Even the Worst Thing About It

Girl goes to ballet school run by witches: Now there’s an elevator pitch for you, and it pretty much covers the plot of Dario Argento’s glorious 1977 giallo masterstroke Suspiria: Jessica Harper, as naïve young...

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Lady Gaga Delivers a Knockout Performance in A Star Is Born

There’s only one antidote for the weird world we live in, an age of political anxiety, Instagram envy, humorless personal essays that treat basic life experiences like major tragedies, and selfies: We need more melodramas,...

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The Favourite Is a Wicked Delight Filled With Marvelous Performances

Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has drawn acclaim with a handful of love ’em or hate ’em pictures, including Dogtooth (2009), The Lobster (2015) and The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017). At his best, he's...

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Venice Review: Alfonso Cuaron's Roma Is Glorious, Tender Filmmaking

At the beginning of Alfonso Cuarón’s extraordinary film-as-remembrance Roma—playing in competition here at the Venice Film Festival—we meet Cleo, a young woman of Mixteca heritage who works as a servant and sort-of nanny for a...

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First Man Doesn't Quite Live Up to Ryan Gosling's Thoughtful Neil Armstrong Performance

Damien Chazelle, director of the macho-jazz wingding Whiplash and a floaty modern musical about a great American city, La La Land, is a flashy filmmaker of great ambition. You don’t scale a movie about the...

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3 Smaller, Surprising Movies from the Venice Film Festival

The true strength of any good festival lies in the mix of smaller—or at least less flashy—films that find their way into the mix

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