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Six Great Films About Police Brutality

June 1, 2020June 2, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Angie Thomas, Antoine Fuqua, Denzel Washington, Do The Right Thing, Fruitvale Station, Hate, La Haine, Malcolm X, Mathieu Kassovitz, Michael B. Jordan, Radio Raheem, Ryan Coogler, Spike Lee, The Hate U Give, Training Day

The movies have been warning us for decades

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‘The Vast of Night’

May 31, 2020June 3, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Andrew Patterson, Blue Velvet, David Lynch, Sierra McCormick, UFOs, Vast of Night

A UFO movie that feels like David Lynch made it

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‘The High Note,’ more like a medium note

May 30, 2020 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Dakota Johnson, High Note, Ice Cube, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Tracee Ellis Ross

A shiny, modest melodrama about perfectly reasonable people

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HBO Max Arrives to Further Complicate the Streaming Wars

May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Jake Harris 0 Comments Akira Kurosawa, Anna Kendrick, Criterion Collection, Disney, Doctor Who, Elmo, Friends, HBO Max, Justice League, Looney Tunes, Studio Ghibli, Zack Snyder

Friends, Looney Tunes, and the Snyder Cut

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‘Tenet’ is Either Coming Soon Or It Isn’t

May 26, 2020May 29, 2020 Jake Harris 0 Comments Christopher Nolan, COVID-19, Dimple Kapadia, Elizabeth Debicki, John David Washington, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Caine, Robert Pattinson, Tenet

A definitive timeline of the most controversial movie release of the COVID-19 age

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‘The Trip to Greece’ is the Last Trip Anyone Will Ever Take

May 25, 2020May 27, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Dustin Hoffman, Marlon Brando, Michael Caine, Michael Winterbottom, Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, The Odyssey, The Trip To Greece

A few more impressions for old-time’s sake

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‘The Lovebirds’: Hipster Creatives on the Lam

May 23, 2020May 23, 2020 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments

Easygoing chemistry floats a dumb caper comedy

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DOCUMENTARY FILM 

‘The Painter and the Thief’

May 23, 2020May 23, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Barbora Kysilkova, Benjamin Ree, Karl-Bertil Nordland, The Painter and The Thief

A lovely documentary about art, crime, redemption, and friendship

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‘The Wrong Missy’ but the Right Lapkus

May 18, 2020June 4, 2020 Neal Pollack 3 Comments Adam Sandler, David Spade, Lauren Lapkus, Nick Swardson, Rob Schneider

A slapstick star is born in a bad Happy Madison Netflix comedy

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The Best of Fred Willard

May 18, 2020May 18, 2020 Omar Gallaga 0 Comments

Five essential performances from the brilliant comic actor

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CREATORS Directors FILM Remembrance 

Lynn Shelton, Acclaimed Indie Director, Dead at 54

May 17, 2020May 17, 2020 Kevin L. Jones 0 Comments

“Everyone she worked with loved her.”

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‘Capone’ Shits the Bed

May 16, 2020May 16, 2020 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Capone, Josh Trank, Kyle MacLachlan, Matt Dillon, Tom Hardy

A crazed scatological portrait of a gangster’s endgame

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We Went to the Drive-In

May 15, 2020May 20, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Blue Starlite, David Bowie, Dazed and Confused, Drive-in, Labyrinth, Spaceballs, The Empire Strikes Back

It was something to do

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FILM TELEVISION 

Miss Fisher and the Missing Appeal of Miss Fisher

May 14, 2020May 19, 2020 Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell 0 Comments

Full-length film discards the show’s charm

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CREATORS FILM TELEVISION 

COVID-19 Culture is the Worst in Human History

May 13, 2020May 17, 2020 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Andrew Cuomo, Bill Maher, Chris Cuomo, Don Cheadle, Donald Trump, Gal Gadot, Gloria Gaynor, Heidi Klum, Imagine, James Corden, Jimmy Fallon, Katy Perry, Parks and Recreation, Quibi, Retta, Rolling Stones, Scoobs, Tiger King, Tim Gunn, Trevor Noah, Trolls World Tour, WHO

Here are some lowlights

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