Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 Episode 3. The premiere episode of The Walking Dead: Dead City Season 2 saw Maggie (Lauren Cohan) being forced to go back to New York…
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“The offscreen is more evocative”, says a Jean-Luc Godard lookalike in “Nouvelle Vague,” Richard Linklater’s Palme d’Or contender at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It is an astonishing inclusion in a film that is, ultimately, nothing more than a painstakingly…
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For anyone who has experienced the excruciating process of auditioning for something, I can't recommend Fame enough, and I also can't recommend it at all. At least, I can't recommend it if you're not prepared to be thrust right back…
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Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The Last of Us Season 2 Episode 6. The sixth episode of The Last of Us Season 2 is the most beautifully heartbreaking episode of the show so far — and yes,…
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Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for the Suits LA series finale.It's already time to say goodbye to Suits LA. While it wasn't shocking news that NBC decided not to pursue a second season of the legal drama, it…
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The screams from an audience watching “The Omen” in 1977 can be heard throughout the Cinema São Luiz in the northeastern Brazilian city of Recife. They reach a private room near the projection booth where an average man, Marcelo (Wagner…
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In the half-decade since the COVID-19 pandemic began, many have tried to make films capturing what it was really like, but few have failed to grasp exactly how the pandemic really changed things. Not just in a social-distancing, health-conscious way,…
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I'll be honest when I say that I wasn't the biggest lover of Asteroid City or The French Dispatch. And as a long-time fan of Wes Anderson, I felt like maybe he had already hit his peak and wasn’t just…
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Gallaudet University is a special place. It’s far more than a university for the deaf. If you live in Washington, DC, it's a pillar of the community. And in 1988, it was the home of a revolution that would make…
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CANNES – Let me be the first, perhaps second, possibly third critic to refer to Harry Lighton’s directorial debut, “Pillion,” as the gay flip side of “Babygirl.” Subject matter aside, it’s a movie with somewhat higher aspirations than its A24…
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Nouvelle Vague (aka New Wave), the latest film from the iconic American indie director Richard Linklater, is a tour de force of nostalgic whimsy. It’s a beautifully crafted love letter to the period of French cinema in the late 1950s…
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CANNES – In the opening moments of “Bono: Stories of Surrender,” filmmaker Andrew Dominik’s black and white concert film about the man, his music, his one-man stage show, and his life up until now, there is an acknowledgement from the…
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