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L’Age d’Or (1930)

Comedy Rated NR

“…a scandalous attack on all things religious and bourgeois.”

The Magnificent Seven (2016)

Drama Rated PG-13

“D’Onofrio bursts from a bush looking like Grizzly Adams, if Grizzly Adams had eaten Orson Welles for breakfast.”

Un Chien Andalou (1929)

Horror Rated NR

“Plenty of movies follow dream logic. This has dream rhythm.”

Heaven & Earth (1993)

Drama Rated R

“…despite every intention the movie can’t quite shake its American male point of view.”

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Drama Rated NR

“I could watch Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton do this for hours.”

Born on the Fourth of July (1989)

Drama Rated R

“…a tale of American masculinity undone.”

Snowden (2016)

Drama Rated R

“The aesthetic flecks are what keep Snowden interesting.”

Blair Witch (2016)

Horror Rated R

“…sufficiently honors the original film while also making a queasy impression of its own.”

Sully (2016)

Drama Rated PG-13

“…would work better as a video exhibit at an aviation history museum than it does as a dramatic narrative.”

National Velvet (1944)

Family Rated G

“Donald Crisp and Anne Revere save this treacly family drama from choking on its own sentimentality.”

Recent Reviews

Tender Mercies (1983)

Drama Rated PG

“… an unhurried meditation on prodigal singers and profligate love.”

The Great Santini (1979)

Drama Rated PG

“… has a literally commanding Duvall at the center of it.”

Project Hail Mary (2026)

Drama Rated PG-13

“Ryan Gosling passes the Muppet test with Project Hail Mary, even though it’s not a Muppet movie.”


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