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For months, word has spread about the new movie Civil War. It's the most incendiary film of our time! Controversial! A president who claims a third term presides over a crumbling America that li...

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So as you're struggling to stay in the theater, or just stay awake, through the entire—not very long—running time of the new Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, you might find yourself noticing that...

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Leonard Bernstein may have been the greatest American cultural creation of the 20th century. I don’t mean that he was the greatest creator of culture, because he was not—for while he certainl...

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There is no shortage of relatively recent films that could never get made today. You can read all about it by clicking on one of many dumb listicles on the internet, which vary in terms of how ba...

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The British director Ridley Scott has made an American film about the French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte. Reactions to Scott’s Napoleon divide in two ways. First, there is the division between ...

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Paul Newman was a very handsome young man and a theater kid, so he spent the ’60s getting Oscar nominations for playing maladjusted ne’er-do-wells in moralistic social dramas, rebelling again...

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Oppenheimer is a landmark picture in many ways, not least because it’s a total throwback. We’re talking about a self-conscious middlebrow epic about America, once a subgenre of its own and re...

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The new Mission Impossible movie is called Dead Reckoning Part One, and it’s about a rogue Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Thingy that can only be kept from ruling the world by two keys. Tom Cr...

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I have a hard-and-fast rule: I don’t see movies in which children are shown to suffer or are in jeopardy. But I’m also 62, and sometimes I forget my own hard-and-fast rules the way I forget w...

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Steven Spielberg directed the first four Indiana Jones movies. He told James Mangold, the director of the just-released fifth installment, that the secret to making such a picture is that it's "a...

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Twenty years ago, adult comedies were more reliable performers at the box office than horror movies—or superhero movies, for that matter. Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, t...

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Heroes used to be the coin of the cinematic realm. The cowboy was a hero. The sheriff was a hero. The cop was a hero. The detective was a hero. Even the wisecracking newspaperman of countless 193...

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I still think Into the Spider-Verse ranks as a towering achievement in animation and isn’t surpassed by this new one, but people who want to take these movies more seriously than I do are going...

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You could make an argument that The Little Mermaid—the original from 1989, not the remake released this weekend—is the most significant movie made in the past 35 years. It changed the course ...

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The new film BlackBerry, a docudrama about the development and the destruction of the titular device, is many things, almost all of them wonderful. It’s a superb portrait of the clash between e...

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From 2008 until 2019, Marvel Studios went on an unparalleled run, producing 23 superhero films that were (for the most part) critically well-received and (for the lion’s share) incredibly popul...

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Boy, is Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant good—a riveting, intense, heart-pounding military thriller that packs more punch than any such movie since The Hurt Locker in 2008. And that’s a huge surp...

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Like many stars of yore, Russell Crowe has reached the age for exploitation movies, as we used to call them. Hollywood as a whole has reached that age, and horror has gradually become the most pr...

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Dwight Frye gave one of the greatest performances in cinema history, and you've never heard of him. It's Frye on screen in the opening minutes of 1931's Dracula, playing the mild-mannered lawyer ...

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Once upon a time, "branding" referred solely to the grotesque physical marking on skin or hide of a living creature as a means of connoting ownership. A brand was something you had designed for y...

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