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The Black Cat
How to explain my affection for the least typical of all Universal horror films, 1934’s The Black Cat, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer? It...
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You Can See Everything
A film ostensibly about the entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, convicted of fraud, satirizes the way documentaries frame stories about controversial people. I’ve always heard that...
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Drugstore Cowboy
A portrait of addict life from 1989 features Matt Dillon as the leader of a group of junkies stealing prescription opioids from drugstores. In...
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Cover-Up
A documentary about the career of journalist Seymour Hersh, who has broken some of the most important political stories in America since the late...
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Late Fame
An older man, who wrote one book of poetry years ago and then stopped writing, is rediscovered by a group of young writers in...
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The Lower Depths
Akira Kurosawa adapted the famous play by Maxim Gorky about a group of outcasts typifying social conflict into a film of remarkable power. It...