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The pilot of NBC’s “Reverie,” an attempt at Summer escapism now that the weather is warmer and most of the network shows have gone on hiatus, is such a hodge-podge of clear influences from other science-fiction...

In addition to our full table of contents, we are highlighting some of our coverage from the 2018 Cannes Film Festival in this special edition of Thumbnails. Included below are daily dispatches by Barbara Scharres and...

Here is Chaz Ebert’s seventh video dispatch from the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, featuring a rountable discussion between Ben Kenigsberg, Jason Gorber and Lisa Nesselson… Cannes 2018 with Chaz Ebert, Critic Roundtable from The Mint on...

“Can you just let me sit with my own memories?” This plea, from Jennifer (Laura Dern) to her mother (Ellen Burstyn), is a key moment in “The Tale,” an extraordinary and disturbing new film directed by...

Radical Queer Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce is these days making films with more visual polish than such early fare as 1993’s “No Skin Off My Ass” (a piece of subversion beloved of Kurt Cobain and Gus...

8 NEW TO NETFLIX “The 40-Year-Old Virgin””Bridge to Terabithia””The Kingdom””Mamma Mia!””Only God Forgives””The Phantom of the Opera””Small Town Crime””Wanted” 11 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai””Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” The steelbook phenomenon has...

I never read a Phillip Roth book that I did not enjoy. This is an odd thing to say, given that with most authors by which one has read more than one title, there has to...

When “Arrested Development” was canceled in 2006, it was before the wave of reboots and nostalgia that pop culture is currently riding, and so, even with the possibility of a movie hanging in the Hollywood ether,...

Few sets of films fascinated Roger like the “Star Wars” franchise. From 1977 to 2005, he was always captivated by the visual experience offered by the films, giving only one installment of the six less than...

Neil Gaiman’s short story How to Talk to Girls at Parties is about three teenage boys in the 1970’s who love punk. They know so little about girls that when they wander into the wrong party and...