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Ah, the 1980s. Forever associated, in film, TV, and theater, with shoulder pads, big hair, cocaine, and more cocaine. It makes sense that the invention of male exotic dancers took place in the “greed is good”...

Jerzy Skolimowski’s “EO,” about a donkey wandering through modern Poland, is a rare animal picture that’s not aimed at kids. In fact, small children, particularly ones conditioned by post-1950s Disney cartoons about lovable creatures, should not be allowed anywhere near it,...

The obscenely wealthy are having a tough time at the movies lately. Last month, Ruben Östlund stuck a bunch of them on a luxury yacht and watched them projectile vomit all over each other in “Triangle...

Elegance Bratton’s directorial debut “The Inspection” is a boot camp movie that follows the standard arc of such films: a troubled young person enlists (or is drafted), has a rough training period in which he is targeted...

Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s “Fleishman is in Trouble” is a potent collection of crises, a mini-epic about being in one’s forties and not having everything figured out, as one might believe it all should be. That realization scares...

For the first two seasons of creator Liz Feldman’s droll, incisive series “Dead to Me,” Laguna Beach besties Jen (Christina Applegate) and Judy (Linda Cardellini) have been surrounded by death and lies. In fact, their tight-knit...

Disney legend Floyd Norman is an artist and animator whose career on films like “Sleeping Beauty,” “The Jungle Book,” and “Toy Story 2” merited his own documentary in 2016 (“Floyd Norman: An Animated Life”). He appears in...

On an unassuming Saturday morning in September 1992, Warner Bros. Animation introduced a new version of a beloved comic book character, and a voice-acting legend was born. That legend was Kevin Conroy, who inhabited the role of...

Actor, movie star, and here first-time feature director Russell Crowe is not a billionaire, but he’s likely been in closer proximity to billionaires than most of us. One figures that kind of exposure might have informed...

We asked ten contributors to pick three films from 2022 that they think everyone should see before making their top ten lists of the year. These are the choices of Katie Rife. Technically, the movies “came...