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Kitty Green’s The Assistant is about Harvey Weinstein and his behavior that exploded into the #MeToo movement in 2017. But Weinstein exists on the periphery of this story, which takes place at an unna...
If you don’t know much about Natalie Wood, the new documentary Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind offers some idea about what made her a star, while also giving an intimate look at her life behind the ...
Intolerable Cruelty often takes a place alongside The Ladykillers (2004) as one of Joel and Ethan Coen’s least admired, even dismissible efforts. Compared to much of their other work, the mainstream-f...
Ned Kelly was the most famous bushranger, the name of nineteenth-century Australian outlaws and highwaymen who sparked the collective imagination of the oppressed masses. Just as Jesse James had becom...
The title of Marguerite Duras’ film India Song refers to its recurring music by the same name, written by the Paris-based, Argentinian-born Carlos d’Alessio. Its melody is chic and modern for th...
Arguably the most renowned filmmaker of Chinese cinema’s Fifth Generation, Zhang Yimou reached the peak of his cinematic powers in the 1990s with a stable of arthouse dramas, each celebrated by the in...
More than a decade passed between 1933, the release year of both King Kong and its rushed-to-production sequel Son of Kong, and the 1949 arrival of their distant cousin, Mighty Joe Young. The Second W...
Les misérables, Ladj Ly’s first feature-length narrative film, does not attempt yet another adaptation of Victor Hugo’s 19th century novel of the same name. It does, however, take place in the same po...
Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always avoids the type of political rhetoric and overt dramaturgy that could have made it disingenuous, thus ineffectual, or more of a statement than a feeling e...
