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On the Bowery
Lionel Rogosin’s 1956 portrait of the Skid Row neighborhood in lower Manhattan was a startling new development in American cinema. On the Bowery is...
Wild Nights with Emily
A film about the love affair between the poet Emily Dickinson and her childhood friend Susan Gilbert gleefully satirizes the male-centric point of view...
Amazing Grace
In the early 1970s, at the peak of her powers and her success, Aretha Franklin decided that she wanted to make a gospel album,...
High Life
Claire Denis, the French filmmaker, has established her international reputation over three decades as a director of art cinema: social dramas with a vast...
Her Smell
Elisabeth Moss dominates the screen as a crash-and-burn rock star in Alex Ross Perry’s latest provocative drama. That self-centeredness is often related to self-hatred...
King Rat
George Segal plays an American corporal whose wheeling and dealing makes him a kind of king within the narrow world of a Japanese prisoner...