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‘BoJack Horseman’ Season One on Netflix
Drowning in ennui
While raunchy to its core, BoJack Horseman is both addictive and surprisingly emotional.
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Woody Allen's 'Magic in the Moonlight'
When’s the last time you talked to God?
With Magic in the Moonlight, his newly released film, Woody Allen conjures up a romantic comedy that deals with his darkest fears and still delivers a happy ending.
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John Turturro's 'Fading Gigolo'
Woody Allen Redux
Fading Gigolo is a surprisingly whimsical film in which Woody Allen plays a pimp. No, really.
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Anton Corbijn’s ‘A Most Wanted Man’ (second review)
Making a safer world
A Most Wanted Man reminds us that the Cold War world of espionage lives on in our post-9/11 obsession with terrorism, made all the more ubiquitous in the modern surveillance state.
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James Gunn's 'Guardians of the Galaxy'
A by-the-book comic-book blockbuster
It’s nice having a reliably enjoyable summer movie experience, the cinematic equivalent of fried boardwalk food or cheap, cold beer. A lot of blockbusters don’t live up to my hopes, but with a Marvel movie I always know what I’m going to get, so I’m never disappointed.
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Richard Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’
What we remember
Boyhood follows the flow of time and how these moments link to form a life. The artistry of the movie is in how Richard Linklater has curated those moments.
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Michael Rossato-Bennett's 'Alive Inside'
What happens when we find out that the most compromised among us are “alive inside”?
Alive Inside is a deeply compassionate film that not only deals with the power of music but also raises important issues about how we care for those suffering from dementia.
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Anton Corbijn's 'A Most Wanted Man'
The price of betrayal
Though there are certainly plenty of deceptions and double crosses in A Most Wanted Man, the human element dominates throughout — particularly the very real sacrifices, compromises, and ultimate costs of its richly drawn characters.
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'The Newburgh Sting' on HBO
"Ain’t no gang like the government”: The truth about the Newburgh Four
In a meticulously researched, brilliantly edited, hard-hitting 90-minute exposé, The Newburgh Sting takes you through the shocking story of how the FBI carefully plotted to recruit and train these four unwitting men to make these attacks and then turned around and made a dramatic arrest that was publicized worldwide.
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Thinking about gender at the movies
Girl guard
Why is it so hard for Hollywood to reflect the diversity of our society? The author calls for a new Hays Office — a Helen Hayes Office — to help moviemakers.
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