Mr. Whitlock’s songs, including the chart-topping “Take My Breath Away,” were central to the 1986 movie.
Category: Movies
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‘God’s Time’ Review: Saving Her From Herself
Instead of making a thriller, the writer and director Daniel Antebi opts for a boho buddy comedy, with mixed results.
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Christoph Waltz Has Some Thoughts
His title character in the new Amazon series “The Consultant” is a blend of pleasant and menacing, with some very specific ideas about running a business.
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Film Artists Reflect on the Movies that Left a Mark
For a retrospective series at the Berlin International Film Festival, directors and actors selected formative coming-of-age movies. Their choices show links between the cinematic past and present.
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‘Juniper’ Review: Bad Grandma
Starring Charlotte Rampling, this New Zealand-set drama is a portrait of intergenerational bonding with a heavy dose of cynicism.
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‘Yanagawa’ Review: Her Spell
Two brothers reconnect over a lost love in this drama from the Chinese filmmaker Zhang Lu.
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‘Bruiser’ Review: Of Fathers and Fractures
A teenage boy is caught between the man who raised him and a new guiding figure in this affecting study of masculinity and coming of age.
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‘Linoleum’ Review: Rocket Plan
Jim Gaffigan plays a dual role as rival scientists in this mysterious yet surprisingly effective movie.
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‘My Happy Ending’ Review: When Life Goes Off Script
Andie MacDowell plays a screen and stage star facing a cancer diagnosis in this film directed by Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon.
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‘Dancing the Twist in Bamako’ Review: Youth in Revolt
Robert Guédiguian’s jaunty new film places a young romance against the backdrop of post-colonial Mali in the early 1960s.
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‘Chocolat’: What France Knew
Newly restored, Claire Denis’s quasi-autobiographical “Chocolat,” a child’s-eye view of French colonialism, is austere yet vivid.
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What ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ Owes to Samurai and Sergio Leone
The DreamWorks sequel has garnered praise for its vibrant animation, darker story and fight sequences inspired by classic films.