This week, for RogerEbert.com, I explain why I'm not as crazy about Peter Strickland's The Duke of Burgundy (from which the above pretty picture derives) as a person like myself…
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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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When I saw Ava DuVernay’s Selma last December, I, like many other critics, was terrifically taken with it. And I was also a little surprised. I was not surprised…
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Against Jerry Lewis in Hollywood Or Bust, Frank Tashlin, 1956. Ekberg, who died yesterday at age 83, is the first of Bob Dylan's "Country'll Grow" trinity to shuffle off…
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Ricardo Montalban in Battleground. For some reason, I thought that it might be fun over the Christmas holiday to give myself more work. With little to nothing going on in…
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In Zabriskie Point, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970. With G.D. Spradlin and an unknown actress. Actors as a rule don't get to choose their directors but Taylor had the appeal,…
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