A prostitute blinded by a stalker tries to protect a young boy. But in his first film in 10 years, Dario Argento opts for visuals as banal as the scares.
Category: Movies
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‘Sell/Buy/Date’ Review: The Topic of Sex Work, From All Sides
In Sarah Jones’s engaging film about the sex trade, everyone has a say.
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‘Stars at Noon’ Review: A Not-So-Innocent Abroad
Claire Denis’s captivating new film, starring Margaret Qualley and based on the novel by Denis Johnson, treads familiar territory in a foreign land.
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‘The Other Tom’ Review: A Parent’s Right to Choose
A single mother in Texas faces off against the state when she refuses to medicate her son’s A.D.H.D.
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In ‘Tár,’ a Female Maestro Falls Into the Same Old Traps
The film’s thesis is blunt: Put a woman in power, and she’ll be as sexually inappropriate and badly behaved as any man.
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Under the Skin of Jamie Lee Curtis
Whether it’s her return to her horror roots in “Halloween Ends” or her buzzy performance in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” freedom is what the actress is after.
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‘Almost Famous’ Heads to Broadway, Purple Aura Intact
Cameron Crowe adapted his Oscar-winning screenplay, about writing for Rolling Stone in the ’70s, preserving parts of the movie’s soundtrack and zingers (Don’t take drugs!) for the stage.
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American Culture Is Trash Culture
It’s not just that trash is what Americans want from movies; it’s who we are. So where did it go?
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Netflix Nears Deal to Build Huge Production Complex on Jersey Shore
The company was the top bidder for land occupied by a former Army base.
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Anthony Rapp Said Anguish Returned When He Saw Kevin Spacey Onscreen
In testimony in a civil trial, Mr. Rapp argued that Mr. Spacey had inflicted emotional distress by climbing atop him in a bed when Mr. Rapp was 14. Mr. Spacey says the encounter didn’t happen.
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How Russian Action Movies Are Selling War
For an American, it can be easy to forget how much ideology is packed into the genre — until you watch a film from elsewhere, and see their cartoonish heroes and villains.
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Nikki Finke, Caustic Hollywood Chronicler, Is Dead at 68
At newspapers and then at Deadline, the website she founded, she served up the opposite of fluff entertainment journalism.