It’s hard to think of a contemporary mainstream male filmmaker who consistently writes better female characters than Alex Garland. Before…
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“What made you talk to them?” “Still kinda putting that together in my own mind.” That really is the impossible…
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For the past twenty-five years, Chaz Ebert and the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have hosted…
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The fact-based “Hard Miles” begins with a failure. Social worker Greg Townsend (Matthew Modine) urges a judge to allow the…
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At the end of “The Beekeeper,” an amazing thing happens: they fade to black and roll the credits. I saw the…
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“The Hands of Orlac,” a twisty and lurid 1924 Austrian psychodrama, was the last movie I saw in New Orleans…
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Despite its gently bummed-out vibe, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” is a sneakily powerful film. It’s so affecting, in…
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If the 2020s were going to be any film subgenre, they would be body horror. It’s a genre preoccupied with…
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Just when you think they’ve run out of real-life World War II stories to turn into blockbuster movies, some documents…
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This week marks the 25th anniversary of Ebertfest, Roger Ebert’s film festival hosted every year at the Virginia Theatre in…
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