Director Peter Berg approaches Netflix’s six-episode “Painkiller” with an almost frantic style. There’s an urgency here in his telling of…
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The first sign of serious trouble was in December of 2016. The plot of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” explained…
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Fantasia ended its 27th year of festivities on Tuesday night with a bang to the head, a dumbbell to the shin,…
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In 2020’s “The Mole Agent,” the Chilean director Maite Alberdi got an elderly investigator into a nursing home and filmed…
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John Rosman’s “New Life” is an invigorating piece of humanity horror and the work of a genre mad scientist. No right-minded debut…
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The world lost one of its best filmmakers this week with the passing of the brilliant, passionate, and unapologetic William…
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Everybody who has seen horror movies remembers the image that most frightened them, that put the hook in them, that…
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Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” is utterly eerie for its baroque uncertainty. As its three main characters are hopelessly isolated inside…
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Season Three of “Only Murders in the Building” takes the Hulu series co-created by John Hoffman and Steve Martin to…
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I was so sad to hear of the death of celebrated filmmaker William “Billy” Friedkin, a director who made one…
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