Jake Gyllenhaal Isn't The Best Part Of The New Jake Gyllenhaal Movie
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View ArticleHere It Is, The Most Self-Referential Movie Tom Cruise Has Ever Made
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View Article"Blade Runner 2049" Is An Exquisitely Made Disappointment
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View Article"The Florida Project" Is A Heartbreaking Movie About Living In The Shadow Of...
Willem Dafoe and Brooklynn Prince in The Florida Project. A24 The Florida Project takes place a few miles and a whole universe away from Disney World, in a lavender-painted motel called The Magic...
View ArticleFilm's Sexual Misconduct Problem Goes Deeper Than Harvey Weinstein
Quentin Tarantino and Harvey Weinstein at the premiere of Inglourious Basterds in 2009. Kevin Winter / Getty Images Harvey Weinstein built his career on art made outside the system. He got his start...
View ArticleThe Resurrection (LOL) Of The Dumb, Fun Teen Slasher
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View ArticleLiterally Just 11 Ridiculous Things That Happen In "The Snowman"
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View Article35 Movies You Will Be Talking About This Awards Season
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View Article"Stranger Things" Is Nostalgic For A Time Before Nerds Were Toxic
Steve (Joe Keery) and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) go demo-dog hunting in Stranger Things 2. Netflix Stranger Things made Eggos into a meme and the most essential Halloween accessory of the past two...
View ArticleThere’s No Way Louis C.K.’s New Movie Can Happen Now
Rose Byrne and Louis C.K. in I Love You, Daddy. The Orchard Louis C.K.'s I Love You, Daddy was already the world's most terribly timed movie. It's a would-be provocative comedy about how a man's Woody...
View Article"Three Billboards" Is An Unfortunate Metaphor For Our Complicated Cultural...
Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Merrick Morton / Twentieth Century Fox There are better movies in 2017 than Martin McDonagh's dark comedy Three...
View ArticleThese Are The 11 Best Movies Of 2017
Clockwise from right: A Fantastic Woman, Get Out, Dunkirk, Your Name Sony Classics/Universal/Warner Bros/Funimation Why wouldn't a year that has had no use for subtlety end with the Los Angeles area...
View Article14 Scenes From Movies And TV That Made Us Cry In 2017
We did a lot of crying this year, and sometimes it had nothing to do with the news. (Warning: Spoilers ahead.) Elio’s father’s monologue in Call Me by Your Name Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and Oliver...
View ArticleIn 2017, Movies Tackled The Myth Of The American Suburb
Madison Ferguson, Lauren Lee Smith, Jayden Greig, and Michael Shannon in The Shape of Water. Kerry Hayes / Twentieth Century Fox The Baltimore we see in The Shape of Water is on the cusp of a decline....
View Article"Star Wars" Has Created A Villain Too Real For Its Own Fantasy Universe
Adam Driver as Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Lucasfilm The best and worst idea the new Star Wars trilogy has had is to make Kylo Ren a school shooter.This isn't a take, something Rian...
View ArticleWhat Should We Do With Hollywood’s Rotten Apples?
Jade Schulz for BuzzFeed News A movie is not a sandwich, and neither is a TV series, no matter how often we describe bingeing one as if it were a private encounter with a party hoagie. But we've...
View Article14 Movies You Should Know About From The Sundance Film Festival
It was a quieter year at the annual film festival in Park City, Utah, but there were still plenty of powerful, moving, and surprising films worth talking about. The Tale The most talked about film at...
View Article8 Fabulous Breakout Actors You’ll Be Talking About This Year
From eighth-grade girls to skateboarding showboats to struggling gay teenagers, these actors and their roles wowed audiences at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival — and promise to keep audiences buzzing...
View ArticleWhat Will It Take For The Film Industry To Really Support Women Filmmakers?
Laura Dern and Isabelle Nélisse in The Tale, which was acquired by HBO. HBO Harvey Weinstein attended last year’s Women’s March at the Sundance Film Festival. Weinstein walked on behalf of women's...
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