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Five Cent Cine (At Home): Another Round
Excessive drinking and existential angst, two characteristics of Danish life—according to the Danes—are stirred and mixed well in award-winning Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film. […]
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It turns out Fred Rogers, the mainstay of low-key children’s television for nearly a half century, was something of a child psychologist, maybe even prescient […]
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The title of this documentary suggests we’re in for a deep dive into the essence of “The Villages,” a retirement community of 130,000 in the […]
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“Winning a million rupees in a game show isn’t going to solve it,” Balram (a compelling, multi-faceted Adarsh Gourav) says in one of his voiceovers […]
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In the “By the Book” author interviews in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, the paper’s editors usually ask the interviewee to assemble a […]
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The moral core is slow in coming in this film version of August Wilson’s 1982 play, the first of his 10-play “Pittsburgh Cycle” about black […]
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Five Cent Cine (At Home): The Favourite
The trailer markets “The Favourite” as British court farce, with clips of lavishly dressed scene-eaters. Ever-challenging director Yorgos Lanthimos, however, turns the genre on its […]