Over the last year or more, it’s been hilarious seeing headlines pondering which new action thriller will be the “Reacher”…
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Almost exactly 13 years ago, when I was still a freelancer for this site, I wrote a piece about how…
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There’s a sequence in director Jay Chandrasekhar’s “Super Troopers 3” that acts as a synecdoche for the film’s charms as…
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Ed Saxberger (Willem Dafoe) is “a man of letters,” declares a young man who accosts him on the street one…
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In this excerpt from his book The Otherworld: The Mythic Dimensions of Christophe Gans, author and RogerEbert.com contributor Scout Tafoya…
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Early on in Todd Haynes’ “Safe,” an unwatched television broadcasts a half-heard report on Elizabeth Bouvia, a woman paralyzed by…
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In this excerpt from his book The Otherworld: The Mythic Dimensions of Christophe Gans, author and RogerEbert.com contributor Scout Tafoya…
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In Jane Schoenbrun’s “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma,” horror, cinema, and desire are intertwined. Though similar in some…
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