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Mar 25, 2020
Digging Dirt
A difficult part of this quarantine stems from an essential loss of American identity: If you’re not working, and you can’t buy things, who...
Mar 18, 2020
The Goldilocks Paradox
It’s fair to describe Hillary as a warts-and-all portrait. The four-part documentary shuttles between the 2016 presidential campaign and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s life. The...
Feb 27, 2020
‘Overwhelm the Sky’ Makes its reach
Overwhelm the Sky is the kind of slippery film that gets called "ambitious" as a backhanded way of saying that it tried hard. The...
Feb 19, 2020
Flammable Romance
The two-woman, huntress-gets-captured-by-the-game romance Portrait of a Lady on Fire offers a lot, particularly ravishing color that makes the actresses look like Fragonard paintings,...
Feb 5, 2020
Night of Two-Dozen Stars
This year, the Oscars are like the cocktail bars at too many of today’s receptions: no-host.
One by one, some two-dozen stars will climb up...
Jan 29, 2020
Oscar-nominated animated shorts screen together
Get out your handkerchiefs, because rich tales of sadness constitute this year’s selection of Oscar animated shorts—cancer, Alzheimer’s and mistreated animals are among the...
Jan 22, 2020
‘Aeronauts’ keeps its head in the clouds
The gallant and thrilling The Aeronauts bypasses the problem of telling an adventure story about Victorians with large beards by making a romantic fiction...
Jan 15, 2020
War Stories
On April 16 in the year 1917, during the First World War, a pair of dozing English soldiers—Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman)—are...