‘The Lowdown’ is a Vibe
If you like neo-noir, you’re in for a good time with this left-turn follow-up to ‘Reservation Dogs’
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Ethan Hawke
Nightmare on Sequel Street
‘Black Phone 2’ features a poor man’s Freddy Krueger
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What They Yearned For in Berlin
As Germany goes to the polls, the voters at the 75th Berlinale have already decided
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Cold Hard Truth
With ‘Society of the Snow’, based on the true story of the survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash, director J.A. Bayona has crafted his masterpiece
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Respect Our Society…Or Else
‘Leave the World Behind’ is latest and lamest Netflix entry in the ‘We’re all going to die’ sweepstakes
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What We Saw at the 2023 New York Film Festival 2023
Sold-out screenings and a stronger-than-usual lineup
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Toronto is on the Menu
TIFF is back, featuring a ‘Knives Out’ sequel, a Spielberg semi-autobiography, a Weird Al parody biopic, and ‘The Menu’
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Newman And Woodward’s Own
‘The Last Movie Stars,’ an intimate look at an old-school Hollywood power couple
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Hanging on the Telephone
Ethan Hawke is awesomely creepy in the somewhat predictable ‘The Black Phone’
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The Great White ‘Northman’
Immerse yourself in Robert Eggers’s blood-drenched, metal Viking Hamlet
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BFG Week in Review Podcast #051: ‘Ambulance,’ ‘Moon Knight,’ and More!
Our critics bust into the culture
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Moon Over My Hammy Performance
Disney+ throws lunacy into the MCU with Moon Knight, Marvel’s most complicated superhero
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Everything That’s Streaming in March
Content coming in like a lion
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Waiting for a Better Godot
A wacky all-star online Zoom version of the play brings some laughs, but loses Beckett’s dark poetry
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‘A Bright Ray of Darkness,’ Ethan Hawke’s Pretentious, Whiny Autofiction
OJ’s ‘If I Did It’ for the pseudo-intellectual set
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