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The Sundance Film Festival is starting tomorrow, January 24th, and promises 11 days of cinematic discovery. The film year doesn’t really start until Sundance starts, premiering some of the movies that will be on year-end lists...

I have good news and bad news for anybody who is (as I was) looking forward to “The Kid Who Would Be King,” the latest film by British writer/director Joe Cornish. The bad news is a...

To these eyes, one of the most notable films of the ’70s that still remains largely unknown and unheralded is “Mikey and Nicky,” Elaine May’s astounding and virtually unclassifiable third feature film. It’s probably better known today by...

It’s that time—Christmas Eve for Oscar pundits. What will the Academy Santa Claus bring them in the morning? Sure, they know what a lot of the presents will be before they open them. It’s a guarantee...

The first excellent film of 2019 is playing in limited release and on VOD right now in Henry Dunham’s thrilling debut “The Standoff at Sparrow Creek,” a film that really reminded me of ‘80s and ’90s...

Like a beloved piece of literature, Guillermo Del Toro’s “Crimson Peak” is one of those rare films that gets better with each experience of it. It’s a film I find myself drawn to every few months,...

Horace Jenkins’ recently restored 1982 landmark, “Cane River,” will make its New York premiere tomorrow as part of MoMA’s 16th annual international festival of film preservation, To Save and Project. A new 4K digital master by...

Jon Bernthal is insanely good in “The Punisher.” A remarkable blend of skill, vulnerability, and the work of a great casting director have to coalesce for a performance like this to exist at all. Sometimes he...

There have been countless movies about Christmas family meeting with issues, but not many of them can top the sharp wit and sheer ferocity of “The Lion in Winter”, which revolves around the risky battles of...

“Name one Cure B-side,” one of the students of “Deadly Class” challenges another, the classic purity test in which someone desperate to craft a personality around what they like asks another person to prove whether or...