I suppose those longing for nostalgia might take a shine, if you’ll pardon the pun, to Doctor Sleep, the new movie sequel to The Shining, which spins a triptych of tales that converge in an expected, and unsatisfying, fan service climax. But for most, I suspect,…
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Everything you’ve heard about the Cannes-celebrated Parasite, or perhaps more pointedly, Scenes from the Class Struggle in Seoul, is tenfold true. A savage, toothy satire about social class, or more specifically, about the resourcefulness and eventual uprising of the underclass, it’s a picture that…
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Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood—a gorgeous evocation of 1969 Los Angeles and bittersweet elegy for falling Hollywood stars and the passing of a definitive American era—is the work of an artist at the peak of his powers, which, if you believe him,…
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Midsommar, Ari Aster’s magnum opus follow-up to his deeply unsettling Hereditary, is a sophomore picture of command and precision, well-directed and frequently diverting in its tale of unsuspecting American collegiates venturing into a once-a-century celebration of pagan depravity. Yet as movie freak outs go,…
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco, an elegy for the idea of home and a lament for a vanishing culture in San Francisco, took this year’s Sundance directing prize for first-time filmmaker Joe Talbot and is a richly profound film and very nearly…
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