Look and see: a number of films this in year’s selection—including Atropia, The Stringer, and others—grappled with the ethics ...

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“I just came from Deep River, Ontario, and now I’m in this dream place,” says Betty, the absurdly naive and optimistic young actress whose downward trajectory is the emotional and narrative center of ...

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“I don’t know if you’re a detective or a pervert,” remarks Sandy (Laura Derm) to Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) at a crucial juncture in the harrowing new David Lynch picture, Blue Velvet. We never are ...

Whatever your political affiliation, 2024 was a year full of anxiety, anger, sadness, fear, and strong core beliefs clashing head-on. It happened in the news, at workplaces, and behind the barbed-wire ...

These likely aren’t the questions that Bannon aimed to provoke by making this film, which features an opening montage that cribs liberally from Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will and which was ...

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