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The Lost Dances of Paul Taylor
If a dance isn’t performed for a long time, it starts to disappear. People’s memories of it fade, and videos can be…
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“Materialists” Is a Thoughtful Romantic Drama That Doesn’t Quite Add Up
The work of the Korean Canadian filmmaker Celine Song is modest in scope and intimate in feel, but listen closely to her words—to say…
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The Heartrending Movies of John Cazale
With his sallow face and boulder-like forehead, John Cazale was one of the indelible character actors of the nineteen-seventies, but his…
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How the Broadway Musical “Maybe Happy Ending” Creates Visual Magic
The scenic designer Dane Laffrey on the inspiration he found while travelling in Tokyo and the ideas that led to the groundbreaking set…
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Is “The Phoenician Scheme” Wes Anderson’s Most Emotional Film?
Wes Anderson’s new film, “The Phoenician Scheme,” is a funny-ha-ha comedy, but there’s nothing funny about its story, which involves a…
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William F. Buckley, Jr., and the Invention of American Conservatism
National Review embraced Goldwater. Bozell ghostwrote his campaign book, “The Conscience of a Conservative,” a hit with college students.…
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“Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning” Goes Hard on Valediction
“Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning” has a running time of just under three hours. Within those three hours, alas, I’d say that Tom…
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Pavement Inspires a Strange, Loving Bio-Pic
I once assumed that Pavement would be forgotten by later generations, just as the knowing, sarcastic wit of the nineteen-nineties came to…
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“Caught by the Tides” Is a Gorgeous Vision of Loss and Renewal
More than two decades in the making, Jia Zhangke’s mostly archival film embodies the sweeping transformations of modern China in its very…
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When Jews Sought the Promised Land in Texas
Ezekiel was an exile. Born in the kingdom of Judah, he survived the siege of Jerusalem, in 597 B.C.E., but afterward was banished with his…
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“Sinners” Is a Virtuosic Fusion of Historical Realism and Horror
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the bloodstream, along comes a new horde of vampires, in Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners,” to…
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The “Lady Preacher” Who Became World-Famous—and Then Vanished
Aimee Semple McPherson was barefoot when she left Room 202 at the Ocean View Hotel. Wearing only a bathing suit, a dressing gown, and a…
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“The Shrouds” Is a Casket Case—and an Unsettling Vision of Techno-Paranoia
David Cronenberg’s new film, “The Shrouds,” contains the funniest and saddest blind-date sequence I’ve ever seen. Myrna (Jennifer Dale), a…
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“Warfare” Offers a Hyperrealist Rebuke of the American War Movie
“Warfare” ends the way a lot of movies based on true events do: with a series of side-by-side photographs. Here are the characters you’ve…
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Why the Court Hit the Brakes on School Desegregation
This is structural racism: the system is not self-correcting. Government has to intervene to break the cycle, and that is something that…
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In “The Alto Knights,” Robert De Niro Sings a Familiar Gangland Tune
How might a mid-century New York City Mob boss spend his nights? Frank Costello, the acting head of the Luciano crime family, prefers to…
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Fifty Weird Years of “Saturday Night Live”
It is customary for a person in a situation like mine—preparing to hold forth on “Saturday Night Live”—to divulge which performers would…
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“The Brutalist” ’s Epic Inversion of the American Dream
Not long into “The Brutalist,” the director Brady Corbet plunges us into darkness—a darkness that, although neither formless nor void,…