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‘It Was Just an Accident’: Jafar Panahi’s Brilliant Revenge Story Explores the Prisons We Create
The Iranian director, a victim of his country’s detention policies, wrestles with the impossibility of catharsis.
Matt Goldberg
Former Editorial Manager at TCM and Chief Film Critic at Collider; still a movie nerd.
movies
‘The Perfect Neighbor’: How America Makes a Recipe for Misery
Geeta Gandbhir’s heartbreaking, maddening documentary shows the suffering created by “Stand Your Ground” laws.
politics
The Gorilla Channel
How the Trump Administration seeks to rewrite reality for an audience of one.
movies
Why Did Disney Blow Hundreds of Millions of Dollars on ‘TRON: Ares’?
A theory on why the studio backed a project that was almost destined to fail.
movies
‘A House of Dynamite’ Is Too Self-Serious to Embrace Its Underlying Absurdity
Extreme competence will not save us.
movies
‘Roofman’: A Soft-Focus Look at the Collapse of the American Dream
Derek Cianfrance’s latest runs into the limits of likability.
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‘If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You’: The Pure, Uncut Psychological Horror of Being Mommy
Rose Byrne shines in Mary Bronstein’s film about a world that only knows how to blame, shame, and drain its mothers.
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'Kiss of the Spider Woman': Escapism and Transformation in Technicolor
Bill Condon's musical adaptation explores why we need art in the darkest of times.
movies
'Good Boy' Is a Curious Experiment in Terror
What does it mean to make a dog the star of a horror movie?
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'The Smashing Machine': Dwayne Johnson Is the Best at Losing
The actor's latest makes for a curious career pivot, but fails to probe deeper into the intersection between love and hostility.