As you might infer from the title of this post, spoilers will follow. So when better than now to entreat you, if you haven't yet seen The Prowler, a remarkable…
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"WHAT is an award?" asked Dave Thomas as Richard Harris in an SCTV sketch I'm fond of. (What SCTV sketch am I not fond of, I sometimes wonder.) In today's…
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One imagines that certain Ingmar Bergman skeptics and out-and-out detractors might find cause to term his 1958 picture Ansiktet, also known as The Face, and released in the United States…
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"It's not a movie that's very generous to its audience," My Lovely Wife observed when we discussed Olivier Assayas' 2002 film demonlover after it screened at the BAM Cinematek last…
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Above, Julia Hummer as Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann, also known as "Nada," in Olivier Assayas' Carlos, which opens this Friday at the IFC Center in Manhattan and is showing on the Sundance…
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I'm preparing this right now for The Daily Notebook, but it amused me to look at the first question and its answer today, as Andrew O'Hehir and Roger Ebert went…
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