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‘The Devils’ Is More Than Shock and Censorship
How the film’s tumultuous past speaks to our bizarre present.
Matt Goldberg
Former Editorial Manager at TCM and Chief Film Critic at Collider; still a movie nerd.
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John Malkovich Is at His Best in the Funny, Tragic, and Insightful ‘Wild Horse Nine’
Martin McDonagh examines the slow, bitter death of the American Empire in his latest story of hitman buddies.
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‘NAZA’ Presents a Final Solution for the Digital Age
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s documentary explains how current systems allow the Israeli military to exterminate Gazans from a distance.
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‘Tenzing’ Takes a Traditional Biopic Route to Find a New Appreciation of Everest
Jennifer Peedom’s story about Tenzing Norgay hits familiar beats but reframes the journey to make it about communion rather than conquering.
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Aaron Sorkin Has Always Been Old-Fashioned. With ‘The Social Reckoning,’ He’s Gone Stale.
If Sorkin wants to write op-eds, he should go do that instead of subjecting us to his tedious, sexist movie.
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David Zaslav Got to Play Dress Up. It Cost Thousands of Jobs and Billions of Dollars.
As his tenure comes to an end, the former head of Warner Bros. Discovery showed he was ill-equipped to lead a media conglomerate.
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Tom Cruise Is a Machine
Does the movie star want to defeat A.I., or does he envy it?
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‘Verity’ Is Too Tasteful to Be Trashy
Michael Showalter’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel offers staid storytelling rather than pulpy erotic thrills.
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‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ Is a Unique Blend of Deep Faith and Pulp Thrills
You’ve likely never seen a movie where a Muslim hitman is raising three kids and trying to find breast milk for his baby.
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‘You Had to Be There’ Revels in a Moment of a Comedy Kismet
Nick Davis' documentary about the comic luminaries in the 1972 Toronto production of ‘Godspell’ works best when acknowledging happy happenstance.
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‘The Stunt Driver’ Is a Heartwarming Tale of a Mad Canadian
Jay Baruchel gives an impressive performance as a man at odds with his dangerous ambition.
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‘Primetime’: There’s More Than One Way to Be a Sicko
More than a takedown of former ‘Dateline’ personality Chris Hansen, the film explores how performance itself becomes a bizarre power trip.