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The Manchurian Candidate
A special brand of American movie emerged during the Cold War that I call the “paranoid thriller.” It started in the ‘50s as Hollywood’s...
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The Quiet Ones
A gritty crime film dramatizes a 2008 heist in Copenhagen, the biggest robbery in Danish history. The heist film is now a well-established genre....
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Sleep / Obsession
Two films employing the horror genre to explore darker truths about relationships between men and women. A recent sort of “new wave” movement in...
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Kings of the Road
Wim Wenders’ 1976 movie about two guys traveling around West Germany is a portrait of a time still haunted by the dark legacy of...
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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
Sepideh Farsi’s intimate documentary shows the friendship she developed with a young Palestinian woman in Gaza during Israel’s invasion. Trying to describe the suffering...
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Eephus
A rec league baseball game conveys a gently humorous truth about American men trying to hold on to the rituals of their younger days....