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In 2012 and 2013, it seemed as though everyone had collectively decided to read the same book, like a big, countrywide book club was somehow agreed upon. That’s an exaggeration, but only a slight one. A...

Sandy Kominsky (Michael Douglas) is three-times divorced and struggling to find guest-starring roles on TV as he hits old age. His agent and best friend, Norman (Alan Arkin) becomes widowed after 42 years in the first...

It is impossible to fully grasp the influence Stan Lee had over the world of popular culture since he first achieved fame in the Sixties. As a writer, editor and publisher of comic books, he, along...

Almost half a year after the documentary “RBG” raked in $14.3 million, “On the Basis of Sex,” tells how Ruth Bader Ginsburg began her trailblazing Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union. The film...

A Reno, Nevada high school girl with grey eyes lives teeters on the border between black and white, girlhood and womanhood. Her mother is black, but she is light-skinned and has hair that curls, but isn’t...

Sam Fragoso’s short film “Sebastian,” based on letters sent by and to his immigrant grandfather in the middle part of the last century, is a gem. It somehow manages to be assured and ambitious but also...

The original Swedish-language adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s phenomenally successful novel “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” was not an especially great film by most cinematic standards—it was directed in an efficient though relatively nondescript manner that...

The turn from standard HD Blu-rays to 4K releases allows for reappraisal of films that once dominated the previous home markets and the timing seems particularly interesting to take another look at “The Matrix,” “The Matrix...

10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Bram Stoker’s Dracula””Cape Fear””Close Encounters of the Third Kind””Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind””Filmworker””Ghostbusters””Morris From America””National Lampoon’s Animal House””The Raid: Redemption””United 93” 6 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “12 Monkeys” (Arrow) Terry Gilliam emerged...

Longform critical writing on film is in a financially dire state as more and more outlets struggle to find the business model that could support detailed analysis of filmmaking in a market dominated by outlets that...