Arnaud Desplechin loves stories – the ones you show on a screen, the ones people regale others with that reveal delusions and dreams, the ones we tell ourselves in order to survive. A French filmmaker who’s given us some of the warmest and most eccentric movies to come out of …
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The All-Star Pulp Fiction Gonzo Crime Farce (TM) – it’s practically a genre. Get a bunch of famous people together (not like disaster movie or Ocean’s Eleven-level famous, but enough to reach I’ve-seen-these-actors-before mark), get them mixed up in some very complicated caper or heist or scam, run them around …
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This review is a no-spoilers zone, so let’s cut to the chase: The Last Jedi – Episode VIII of the Star Wars saga – is simply stupendous, a volcano of creative ideas in full eruption. Writer-director Rian Johnson, known for indies such as Looper and Brick, eases into epic filmmaking …
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So much is so wrong about The Dark Tower, the stunted film version of Stephen King‘s marvelously dense and dazzling series of eight novels, that it’s hard to know where to kick off a critical reckoning. The crux of the problem is that the bestselling author’s magnum opus deserves an …
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