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About 40 years ago, a New York senator and lifelong politician named Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” It was as catchy then as now, with the phrase lingering still in the zeitgeist like a faded bumper stick tagline. Yet if the ongoing collapse of […]

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There is a school of thought which states the scariest 43 seconds of Jordan Peele’s Nope belong to the first moments when a chimpanzee has a child cornered. If you’re of that persuasion, then Johannes Roberts’ Primate offers a brutal expansion of that dread to feature length, now with the gory bits painstakingly filled in. […]

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Paul Thomas Anderson‘s newest barnstormer One Battle After Another bravely dares to ask: what if you had a dad who cared about you? If that sounds glib it’s in fitting with One Battle After Another, which is as funny as it is revolutionary, as silly as it is serious, and at its heart is a […]

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There is a school of thought that views the whole of human existence, from the cave dwellers who discovered fire to the skyscraper and smartphone-designers of today, as an expansive cycle of guys trying to impress gals. There’s plenty of reason to be dubious about this broad generalization, not least of all because it removes […]

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This article contains The Long Walk spoilers. The Long Walk was the first novel Stephen King ever completed. It was not the first book published. That distinction belongs to Carrie, which originally appeared as a paperback in 1974. But nearly a decade before that, King was writing The Long Walk as a freshman at the […]

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Anybody can win. This is the maxim Americans are told, and which they tell themselves, from the cradle to the grave. If you work hard enough, try hard enough, are simply good enough, you too can be a millionaire; a billionaire; or these days an autocrat above the laws of gods and men. Of course […]

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It’s fashionable nowadays to criticize Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s acting choices, but there was a time not long ago where the wrestler-turned-actor’s natural charisma garnered somewhat different notices. While never celebrated as a prospective awards contender, he was still cheered on as “franchise viagra” on SNL, and if not celebrated by critics, then definitely respected […]

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As you probably heard, Warner Bros. Pictures is having a pretty good fall, which comes on the heels of a very good summer and a terrific spring. That’s because the studio’s fourth and supposedly final mainline Conjuring picture, The Conjuring: Last Rites, proved that there is still life in the demonic thing, even as trades […]

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This week sees the release of the “final” film (or so they say) in the Conjuring Universe, The Conjuring: Last Rites. In all four of the mainline Conjuring movies, there are  life and death stakes for the fictional versions of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, played by Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson onscreen. Given […]

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Superman has a fairly robust rogue’s gallery under his belt. You might not know this if you only watch comic book movies, where the Man of Steel faces alternating rounds betwen Lex Luthor and General Zod, but outside of Batman, Spider-Man, and maybe the X-Men, Kal-El has one of comicdom’s top shelf villain rosters. So […]

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This article contains spoilers for 28 Years Later. Some folks were honestly befuddled when 28 Years Later ended this past summer. After watching a wistful and we would argue beatific meditation on death and the bitter pleasures in mortality, the last 90 or so seconds of the Danny Boyle and Alex Garland sequel to their […]

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Shawn Levy’s Star Wars: Starfighter is happening. No, really. Despite what purveyors of chronic online skepticism peddle, Lucasfilm is making a new Star Wars movie that is neither a (direct) sequel to the Skywalker Saga, nor a spinoff of The Mandalorian. And it’s now got the cast to prove it. The last 24 hours has […]

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When Blade premiered in 1998, superhero cinema was on life support. Batman & Robin had turned the genre into a caricature the year before, Marvel Comics was broke and desperate, and a shared cinematic universe seemed unthinkable. Superheroes were fading into irrelevance.Then Wesley Snipes stepped across a blood-soaked floor wearing black leather, carrying a katana […]

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For the next week, M. Night Shyamalan is participating in a retrospective of his career at Film at Lincoln Center. It is there that most of Shyamalan’s work is being screened (in 35mm when possible) and paired with some of the idiosyncratic filmmaker’s favorite touchstones. For example Old, a movie about folks unable to physically […]

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Starring Terence Stamp as the mourning transgender Bernadette Bassenger, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is even more relevant, moving, exquisite, funny, and bitchy than when it rolled over the land down under on release in 1994. Writer/director Stephan Elliott’s now-cult classic should be studied for its performances, social commentary, and expert indulgence […]

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