I think both Alexei German's Hard To Be A God (above) and Abderrahamane Sisako's Timbuktu are masterpieces, but they're also films that demonstrate the necessary elasticity of the possibly overused term.…
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Dear Professional Film Critic, does the movie American Sniper really “glorify a killer?” Well, gosh, you put it that way, it sounds pretty terrible. But some outlets and individuals are…
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“He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” Hunter S. Thompson used that Samuel Johnson observation as the epigraph for his 1971…
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"and every thang is keeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwllll....ooh lord!..." Back in 1985, when I was beginning my “career” as a relatively feisty and entirely earnest rock critic, I began dating a woman of…
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Joseph Cotten in Too Much Johnson, shot in 1938 “Much of the pre-Second World War character of Chicago and New York hardly exists anymore. Everybody builds these mirror boxes, and…
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So I was at the gym this morning and I put on TCM, as one does, and it took me just two shots to figure out the channel was showing…
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