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When Michelangelo Antonioni’s “L’Avventura” opened at the Cannes Film Festival in May of 1960, the audience laughed at it throughout. They booed and jeered the long sequences in which Monica Vitti’s Claudia wanders through her life...

The voices of punk rock, at least in its British iteration, could be divided into four categories: The Sneer (Johnny Rotten), The Mewl (Howard Devoto, Pete Shelley), The Harangue (Joe Strummer) … and then there was...

Will Arnett has been able to use his Lee Strasberg Institute-trained baritone and subversive intensity for various distinct stages in his career—case in point “Murderville,” which blends his sarcastically serious “Lego Masters” hosting charisma with his way around...

This past Sundance felt like it was particularly slim on the comedic pickings, across categories, and yet comedy provided some of this year’s highlight paired performances. Two of the movies talked about here, from the Premieres...

Jono McLeod’s “My Old School,” a Premieres documentary about Scotland’s most infamous imposter, tells its juicy tale in a way that steps away from the typical sullen true crime storytelling. In this case, it’s a group of...

“Separate your price from your worth,” Hugh Hefner paternally warns Pamela Anderson (Lily James) nearly two-thirds of the way through Hulu’s new limited series “Pam & Tommy,” about the theft and distribution of Pamela’s honeymoon sex...

I didn’t so much see myself in “Yellowjackets” as I felt like my memory had been broken into and my ideas and experiences fed back to me by strangers. It was beautiful. It was uncanny. If you...

Television has slowly worked its way into the Sundance program over the last decade, becoming a more prominent part of the event. This does not feel like a fad, but a sign of the future of...

Fans of cheap thrills and cheesy B-movies are sure to be frustrated by “The Requin,” a new shark pic that waits about an hour before introducing major carnivorous fish action. That alone might turn off viewers...

There has never been a documentary quite like Daniel Roher’s “Navalny,” a late addition to the festival’s US Documentary Competition, and by turns easily the category’s funniest and most bleak title. It’s safe to say that...