This horror feature envelops us with its technical atmospherics, but don’t dig too far beneath that surface.
Category: Movies
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‘The Man in My Basement’ Review: A Prison of His Own Making
Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe star in an overstuffed drama about a man haunted by the weight of history.
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‘The Long Walk’ Review: Their Feet Are Killing Them
For a movie about motion, this Stephen King adaptation feels oddly static.
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‘The History of Sound’ Review: Bohemian Tragedy
Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor play lovers who embark on a folk song-recording mission in this demure New England drama.
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‘Happyend’ Review: Adolescent Tremors
Friends in high school navigate senior year in a futuristic Japan where a cataclysmic earthquake looms.
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‘Dreams’ Review: Fact or Autofiction?
The film is the final installment in Dag Johan Haugerud’s trilogy about the sexual and romantic mores of Oslo’s inhabitants.
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‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ Review: One Last Hurrah
There’s truth in advertising as this well-loved saga of British entitlement rolls to a stop, on time and on point.
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Polly Holliday, a Sassy Waitress on the Sitcom ‘Alice,’ Dies at 88
“Kiss my grits,” her character, Flo, was known to say. But that high-profile role was just one facet of a long, busy stage and screen career.
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A TikTok Trend That Gets at the Complex Legacy of ‘Hamilton’
By recreating a snippet of the number “Best of Wives and Best of Women,” these funny shorts serve as both tribute and critique.
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He’s the Reason ‘Severance’ Sounds So Good
George Drakoulias won over a reluctant Tom Petty, transformed the Black Crowes and was name-checked by the Beastie Boys. This year, he was up for an Emmy.
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Stuart Craig, Who Designed the Movie World of Harry Potter, Dies at 83
A three-time Oscar winner for production design, he was one of the few people to work on all eight Potter films and their three “Fantastic Beasts” spinoffs.
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Hollywood Actors and Directors Pledge to Boycott Israeli Film Institutions
In an open letter, Javier Bardem, Olivia Colman and other stars pledged not to work with Israeli film companies that, in their view, “are implicated in genocide.”