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The Power and the Damned, or the reckoning
Brady Corbet's third feature builds toward a moment of shocking violence. What does it mean?
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Bigger than life
Brady Corbet's The Brutalist Is a Visionary, Divisive Epic—And That's the Point
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"Dreaming, but awake," or the beautiful and the damned
Some personal thoughts and memories about the work and art of David Lynch (1946-2025)
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Women on the verge
Some great actresses give heart, depth and shading in filling out the poetic grandeur of Jacques Audiard's new musical crime thriller
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Crime and punishment
Ludicrous as storytelling, Clint Eastwood's Juror #2 is rich in themes and ideas
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Stranger than paradise
A Joycean conversation with the great writer and director Radu Jude
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'The only way we fail is if we don’t make art'
A Sundance conversation with editor Ron Patane about reframing autobiographical art
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