Why Oh Why, ‘Blue Eye Samurai’?
Irish white supremacists try to topple the Shogunate in Netflix’s very strange sort-of-hit anime
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Kenneth Branagh
Hercule Poirot Sees A Ghost
‘A Haunting In Venice,’ Kenneth Branagh’s moody, introspective adaptation of a hacky Agatha Christie Halloween whodunnit
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He Dropped a Bomb on Us
‘Oppenheimer,’ Christopher Nolan’s majestic, grand-statement masterpiece about the reluctant father of the atomic age
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BFG Week in Review Podcast #042: Don Winslow and Joe Rogan, ‘Death on the Nile,’ and an Oscar Roundtable
Our editor and writers break down the culture
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A River in Egypt
Kenneth Branagh’s Poirot is back, with a broken heart
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BFG Podcast #029: Neal Stephenson, ‘Belfast,’ and ‘Spencer’
Our editor and writers break down the week in culture
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I Remember Northern Ireland
‘Belfast,’ Kenneth Branagh’s arty autofiction about a boyhood during The Troubles
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The Documentaries of TIFF
Almost always Toronto’s strongest suit, this year’s docs flex again
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Another Brick in the Wallander
‘Young Wallander’ is an origin story that’s not an origin story
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Evil Under the Blu-Ray
Why are Agatha Christie movies so bad?
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‘Tenet’: We Risked Our Lives for THIS?
The time-traveling spy thriller that saved movies or didn’t
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‘Tenet’ is Either Coming Soon Or It Isn’t
A definitive timeline of the most controversial movie release of the COVID-19 age
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