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‘One Last Adventure’: The Making of Stranger Things 5’ is a longwinded wrap-up of a long-winded show
No, there was no “secret final episode,” but there was a making-of documentary that followed the finale
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'From Dusk till Dawn,' that other surprise vampire movie, turns 30
Three decades before 'Sinners,' Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino teamed up with a new movie star named George Clooney for a crime film that…
Jan 14
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‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ is Jim Jarmusch’s moving meditation on family
Jarmusch’s first film in over six years tells three different stories about fractured families.
Jan 13
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'The Fall of Minneapolis' is Orwellian nonsense
Nov 27, 2023
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'Eyes Wide Shut,' a sex movie with a strange relationship to sex, turns 25
Jul 16, 2024
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No, Mamaw: Don’t blame Ron Howard’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ for the rise of J.D. Vance
Jul 15, 2024
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Fin: 'The Brutalist' and the question of Zionism
Jan 3, 2025
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‘AKA Charlie Sheen’ is the year’s ickiest documentary
Sep 11, 2025
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Fin: Don’t judge a movie by the director’s Twitter likes
May 31, 2024
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Yes, the Golden Globes are still an embarrassing joke
The Globes may have weathered the existential threat of a few years ago, but it pulled up on Sunday with the worst awards show in recent memory.
Jan 12
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Fin: From Hitchcock to Tim Walz, it’s really bad to falsely accuse people of murder
Thoughts on false murder conspiracies, the killing of Renee Nicole Good, Minnesota, and a tragic and difficult week. And, a few movie things.
Jan 9
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‘The Chronology of Water’ is an assured directorial debut from Kristen Stewart
Stewart’s adaptation of Lida Yuknavitch’s memoir is not an easy watch, but it’s very well-acted and even more audacious.
Jan 8
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'Grandma's Boy,' another tale of arrested male development, turns 20
In 2006, the Happy Madison C-list (and Linda Cardellini) got together to make a movie about struggling men, video gaming, and the upside of living with…
Jan 7
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January 2026 documentary review 10-pack: 'Corey Feldman vs. the World,' 'Age of Disclosure', 'Age of Audio,' 'The New Yorker at 100…
The year’s first capsule review roundup of documentary features.
Jan 6
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'One Battle After Another' comes up big
The film, and Paul Thomas Anderson, come up big at the Critics Choice Awards
Jan 5
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Fin: Mubi, Tubi and doomed quests for purity
Plus, 2025 white whales, remembering Mike Fossey, and more in this week’s notes column.
Jan 2
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