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All Grown Up: The Arrested Development of Drop Dead Fred
Caroline Golum
May 12, 2023
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You Don't Have To Win: Robert Aldrich and ...All The Marbles
Patrick Preziosi
May 4, 2023
Eros in Retrograde: 20 Years Later, In the Cut Still Has It
The cult erotic thriller not only provokes and unsettles, but also follows a genre truism: everyone is horny and no one can be trusted.
Veronica Fitzpatrick
May 24, 2023
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Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle Is the Best (If Not the Only) Stoner Movie About Asian America Ever Made
Jeremy Gordon
Apr 14, 2023
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Home Movie: 35 Shots of Rum Remains One of Claire Denis’ Most Personal Works
Matthew Eng
Mar 10, 2023
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Eros in Retrograde: 20 Years Later, In the Cut Still Has It
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All Grown Up: The Arrested Development of Drop Dead Fred
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You Don't Have To Win: Robert Aldrich and ...All The Marbles
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Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle Is the Best (If Not the Only) Stoner Movie About Asian America Ever Made
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The Brother From Another Planet Reimagined What It Meant To Be Lost In America
In a decade defined by social and political alienation, John Sayles' lo-fi sci-fi adventure embraced spontaneous spiritual connections.
Adam Nayman
Feb 24, 2023
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To Be Known: Revisiting the Quiet Romance of The Bridges of Madison County
Clint Eastwood's 1995 romantic drama energizes the domestic space with the liberating possibility of life's freedoms.
Caitlin Quinlan
Feb 22, 2023
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Seconds Is One Of The Darkest, Most Prescient Movies Of The '60s
John Frankenheimer's head-trip points to a future filled with grifters falsely promising a better life.
Dan Schindel
Feb 17, 2023
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Strange Days Warned That The End Is Near
Kathryn Bigelow's 1995 cyberpunk thriller perfectly captures its moment while looking towards a more fraught future.
Charles Bramesco
Feb 15, 2023
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Luz Takes Possession To A Whole Other Level
This German supernatural horror film employs an outré sound design to convey the experience of hypnosis.
Madeleine Wall
Jan 20, 2023
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When 3 Become 1: Shapeshifting in Robert Altman's Low-Desert Dreamscape 3 Women
Altman's classic '70s psychological drama tackles gender as a Gothic team sport.
Sofia Majstorovic
Jan 16, 2023
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The Savages Admirably Avoids Clichés Around Death And Dying
At first glance, Tamara Jenkins' sophomore feature resembles a typical "Sundance film," but it's much thornier than typical indie fare.
Vikram Murthi
Dec 30, 2022
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The Future Is Now: On The Hudsucker Proxy
The Coen Brothers' 1994 screwball comedy uses its heightened reality to tackle corporate greed and consumerist folly.
Kent M. Wilhelm
Dec 16, 2022
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Ragged Generosity: Exploring The Films of Boris Barnet
The work of an unsung, but essential Soviet director is ripe for discovery via a YouTube channel.
Patrick Preziosi
Dec 9, 2022
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The Kingdom: Exodus is Twin Peaks: The Return with seasonal affective disorder
After a 25-year-long hiatus, Lars von Trier returns to the haunted hospital of his landmark supernatural miniseries.
Katie Rife
Nov 25, 2022
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Elaine May's Lacerating Class Comedy A New Leaf Has Barely Aged A Bit
May's sharp satire of the wealthy refuses to pull any punches while also chronicling a sincere personal transformation.
Sophie Monks Kaufman
Nov 9, 2022
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The Classic Ramen Western Tampopo Will Make You Rethink How You Eat
Juzo Itami's freewheeling, genre-bending comedy turns cuisine into a meditation on craft and culture.
Dan Schindel
Oct 31, 2022
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The Kids Are Alright: 40 Years Of Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Amy Heckerling's indelible debut feature captures early-80s adolescence in all of its complex glory, minus the judgement or sanctimony.
Elizabeth Nelson
Oct 10, 2022
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Tin Men Is Barry Levinson's Best Baltimore Movie — And A Cogent Critique Of Male Arrogance
The second in Levinson's Baltimore tetralogy follows two aluminum siding salesmen whose rigid worldviews finally fall under a spotlight.
Noel Murray
Sep 30, 2022
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Toronto International Film Festival 2022: The Banshees of Inisherin, Godland
In his final dispatch, our humble correspondent reviews an Irish comedy of discontent and an Icelandic religious drama.
Vikram Murthi
Sep 19, 2022
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Toronto International Film Festival 2022: How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Viking
Our humble correspondent reviews an urgent environmental thriller and a Canadian existential space comedy.
Vikram Murthi
Sep 15, 2022
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Toronto International Film Festival 2022: The Fabelmans, Glass Onion
Our humble correspondent reviews Steven Spielberg's coming-of-age memoir and the new Knives Out sequel.
Vikram Murthi
Sep 13, 2022
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Toronto International Film Festival 2022: Triangle of Sadness, Moonage Daydream
In Downtime's first TIFF dispatch, our humble correspondent reviews a farcical satire of the super-rich and a collage-style David Bowie doc.
Vikram Murthi
Sep 12, 2022
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Years Before The Rise of Fake News, Shattered Glass Threw The Spotlight On A Serial Fabulist
The rise and fall of Stephen Glass serves as a cautionary tale about the hesitancy of the media class to investigate their own.
A.A. Dowd
Aug 23, 2022
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If You Want To Feel French For Three Hours, Watch My Sex Life... Or How I Got Into An Argument
The essential post-New Wave comedy-drama follows an ensemble of restless Parisian academics falling in and out of careers and love.
Gabrielle Marceau
Aug 10, 2022
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Give Yourself Away Like The Sea: Revisiting the Sexy, Downbeat Pleasures of Y Tu Mamá También
Alfonso Cuarón's risqué road movie emphasizes sexual exploration as well as life's ephemeral nature
Christina Newland
Aug 3, 2022
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Dead Pixels: Why the Forgotten Cyberhorror FearDotCom is Actually Worth Your Time
Its trashy, fetishistic imagery and borderline dream logic are features, not bugs.
Ethan Vestby
Jul 13, 2022
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