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Till Death Do Us Part: Gone Girl in Review

Adapted from the 2012 New York Times best-selling novel by Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl is a merciless depiction of marriage…

10 years ago
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When You Consider the Radiance: Ira Sachs’ Love is Strange

When Ira Sachs’ new feature, Love is Strange, begins, the title feels somewhat ironic. In many ways, there could be…

10 years ago
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Gold from Straw: Brotherhood, Perseverance, and Creative Editing in Mistaken for Strangers

Tom Berninger turns a would-be straightforward rockumentary about his brother’s band into an extraordinarily rich, moving tale of fame, fortune…

10 years ago
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10th Anniversary Retrospective: Forgetting Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

On the eve of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind's 10th anniversary, I revisited an old cinematic flame, confirming my…

10 years ago
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Review: Gloria, Sebastián Lelio

Gloria, Sebastián Lelio's feature about a spirited older woman determined to get the most out of life, raises questions about…

10 years ago
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Review: Blue is the Warmest Color, Abdellatif Kechiche

MovieMaker's pick of this week's new releases is Abdellatif Kechiche's much-talked about three-hour epic, Blue is the Warmest Color (or,…

11 years ago
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Review: 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen

12 Years a Slave Week continues with MovieMaker’s Editor’s Weekend Pick, in which Kelly Leow attempts to express the poignant,…

11 years ago
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Review: Salinger, Shane Salerno

This week’s Editor’s Weekend Pick is Shane Salerno’s documentary on the iconic, reclusive American novelist J. D. Salinger, aptly titled…

11 years ago
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Rewatching L’avventura in 2013

Janus Film’s newly restored print brings Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 masterpiece of Italian cinema, L’avventura, to selected theaters in black-and-white 35mm. We…

11 years ago
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Mixed Reviews: Shock Value

It began in the late 1960s, and would last for about a decade—a cosmic shift in the landscape of horror…

13 years ago