In Nathan Fielder’s new documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, the audience enters a hall of mirrors.
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‘The Devils’—graphic, obscene and utterly depraved—was censored in 1971. Now it’s back in theaters.
‘The Devils’ prompted accusations of blasphemy for its transgressive content. It’s also an expertly crafted picture that, until now, has been nearly impossible to see in full.
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What I saw at the premiere (for the trailer) of the new Narnia movie
Just a few short hours before the trailer for Greta Gerwig’s “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew” went live on Tuesday afternoon, I watched it in a theater with Gerwig herself.
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‘Primetime’ brings ‘To Catch a Predator’ to the big screen—but looks for evil in all the wrong places
‘Primetime’ gives us an easy target for our disgust so we can ignore the finger pointing back at us.
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‘The Uprising’ review: Religion and politics, circa 1381
“The Uprising” is most effective as a tragedy about putting your faith in the wrong things.
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‘Coyote vs. Acme’: Family film or existential fable?
It’s a testament to the movie that it can provoke this much intellectual meandering in a parent while also being wildly entertaining to children.
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‘Tony’ takes us back to Anthony Bourdain’s providential summer
Matt Johnson’s biopic ‘Tony’ takes us to parts unknown in the life of Anthony Bourdain: the summer of 1975 and the lessons he learned.
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‘American Martyr: The Stanley Rother Story’ is a tribute and a campaign ad
A new film preserves Stanley Rother’s dignity while also making him something of a puzzle.
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‘Toy Story 5’ wants to indict our screens—and redeem them too
By allowing devices into our lives and those of our children, we fear, we have corroded our fundamental humanity. The ‘Toy Story’ franchise is perfectly positioned to address this.
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A Catholic classicist on Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’
In ‘The Odyssey,’ Christopher Nolan gives us a sobering vision of civilizations that rise, collapse, but rise again.