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The Past
One of my favorite movies from recent years was A Separation, an Iranian film about the breaking apart of a family that ended up...
Lucky 13
The best film of 2013 may have been something I didn’t see, or didn’t even have a chance to see. There’s a wealth of...
Nebraska
The difficulty of dealing with aging parents, and all the problems of growing old oneself—these can be painful subjects, and mainstream commercial movies generally...
The Invisible Woman
That the great English author Charles Dickens had a mistress during the last dozen years of his life was a well-kept secret only revealed...
Fruitvale Station
Fruitvale Station is movie that I meant to see when it played in the theaters earlier this year, but ended up not finding the...
Next Stop, Greenwich Village
Next Stop, Greenwich Village, a 1976 film written and directed by Paul Mazursky, is a finely observed autobiographical portrait of youth in its first...