Shot in 18 days, “The Assistant” chronicles a day in the life of Jane (like everyone else, she is not referred to by name in […]
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Five Cent Cine At Home: Black Panther
The blockbuster “Black Panther” is both a classic super-hero movie (not meant as a compliment), and an immersion into black thought and culture. It breathes […]
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The scene that best defines “The Sisters Brothers” takes place along a river bank in the remote, anarchic, gold-rush California of 1851, when the film […]
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The R-rated Romcom is alive and well in “Palm Springs,” a creative look at the 40-something slacker male and the woman destined to drag him […]
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Five Cent Cine At Home: Cold War
In a year in cinema dominated by both race and films “based on a true story,” “Cold War,” filmed in black and white, seems a […]
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Ken Loach might have been better off teaching school. An 84-year-old British socialist, he can’t resist lecturing his audience; every film has a lesson. In […]
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Five Cent Cine At Home: Yesterday
The premise of “Yesterday,” a feel-good movie from that master of melodrama, Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire” 2008), is that only one person in the world […]