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Lemonade (2016)

Musical Rated NR

“…more interested in capturing the pure state of specific emotional moments than in detailing the psychological transition from one to the next.”

You, the Living (2007)

Comedy Rated NR

“The anguish of existence is the common thread here.”

The Lobster (2016)

Comedy Rated R

“If we’ve come to idolize marriage in contemporary Western society, The Lobster has come to desecrate it.”

The Man Without a Past (2002)

Comedy Rated PG-13

“…dourly delightful.”

The Nice Guys (2016)

Drama Rated R

“Gosling does enough stumbling and bumbling and falling from balconies (twice!) to earn the term Keatonesque.”

Hollywood Shuffle (1987)

Comedy Rated R

“…presaged a revolution that never came.”

Last Days in the Desert (2016)

Drama Rated PG-13

“McGregor pulls off the trick of making two iconic figures register as flesh-and-blood characters.”

Songs from the Second Floor (2000)

Comedy Rated NR

“…feels like the world’s last whimper.”

April and the Extraordinary World (2016)

Family Rated PG

“Soot and steam seep into every frame, so that you can almost sense the picture wheezing.”

High-Rise (2016)

Drama Rated R

“Society doesn’t come undone as much as it artfully spasms.”

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Rome Open City (1945)

Thriller Rated NR

“… has a ramshackle neorealism, yet pulses with the tension of an espionage thriller.”

The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026)

Drama Rated PG-13

“… a ‘let them eat cake’ distraction for the multiplex crowd.”

Silkwood (1983)

Drama Rated R

“Streep is as loose as she’s ever been…”


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