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    Film
    Old Dog, Same Tricks
    Old Dog, Same Tricks
    By Robert Horton • March 28, 2018 1:30 am

    Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs shows why his style is suited for animation, even if still overbearing.

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    Nick Robinson stars in Love, Simon. 
Photo by Ben Rothstein/Twentieth Century Fox
    Simon, Are You Queer?
    By Robert Horton • March 21, 2018 1:30 am

    ‘Love, Simon’ plays off ’90s tropes for its simple—but groundbreaking—gay high school story.

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    Photo by Nicola Dove/IFC Films
    The Scathing Commie-dy of ‘The Death of Stalin’
    By Robert Horton • March 14, 2018 1:30 am

    Armando Iannucci’s latest film provides razor sharp pseudo-historical satire.

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    Stanley Tucci and Addison Timlin get too close in Submission. Courtesy Great Point Media/Paladin
    Unlearned Lessons
    By Robert Horton • March 7, 2018 1:30 am

    While Stanley Tucci shines, ‘Submission’ feels uncomfortably pre-#MeToo.

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    Cillian Murphy joins <em>The Party</em>. Courtesy of Roadside Attractions
    Don’t Want ‘The Party’ to End
    By Robert Horton • February 28, 2018 1:30 am

    Wickedly witty characters drive Sally Potter’s latest film.

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    Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
    The Trans-cendent ‘A Fantastic Woman’
    By Robert Horton • February 21, 2018 1:30 am

    The brilliant Chilean Oscar nominee actually lets a strong trans person play a lead trans role.

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    Courtesy Allied Integrated Marketing
    Fallen Star
    By Robert Horton • February 16, 2018 7:00 am

    Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool fails to capture the magic of actress Gloria Grahame.

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    Chawick Boseman as Black Panther. Photo courtesy Marvel Studios
    Serious Power
    By Robert Horton • February 14, 2018 1:30 am

    Black Panther builds a stunning sci-fi African world, but could use more comic book fun.

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    Sorry, Not Sorry
    Sorry, Not Sorry
    By Robert Horton • February 7, 2018 1:30 am

    Lebanon’s Oscar-nominated The Insult captures the universality of devolving discourse.

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    Photo by Dave O’Leske / ‘Dirtbag’
    Mountain of a Man
    By Robert Horton • January 24, 2018 1:30 am

    Dirtbag tells the true story of the obsessive and difficult mountaineering legend, Fred Beckey.

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    <em>The Shape of Water</em> image courtesy Fox Searchlight.
    Academy Award Nomination Predictions and Dreams
    By Seth Sommerfeld • January 22, 2018 11:20 am

    The names we expect to be called at the Oscar nomination announcements (and ones that should be).

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    Courtesy Dogwoof/REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
    Hope’s Curtain Call
    By Robert Horton • January 17, 2018 1:30 am

    The Final Year takes viewers inside the unsuspecting last days of the Obama administration.

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    P.T. Anderson Steps Back From the Void with ‘Phantom Thread’
    P.T. Anderson Steps Back From the Void with...
    By Robert Horton • January 10, 2018 1:30 am

    An exacting performance from Daniel Day-Lewis in this unconventional love story helps the director get back on track.

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    Courtesy of StudioCanal
    The Second Paddington Is Filled With Slapstick and...
    By Robert Horton • January 10, 2018 1:30 am

    And a lot of well-known faces.

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    ‘I, Tonya’ Is Sympathetic, but Tone Deaf
    ‘I, Tonya’ Is Sympathetic, but Tone Deaf
    By Robert Horton • January 3, 2018 1:30 am

    Jeff Gillespie’s treatment just doesn’t take Harding seriously.

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    <em>The Rider</em> came out of nowhere to be one of 2018’s best movies. Photo courtesy Sony Pictures Classics
    Top 10 Films of 2018
    By Robert Horton • January 2, 2019 9:45 am

    A look back on the cinematic year that was.

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    Alexander Payne Delivers an Incredible Shrinking Film
    Alexander Payne Delivers an Incredible Shrinking Film
    By Robert Horton • December 20, 2017 1:30 am

    With Downsizing, the director continues his exploration of humanity’s foibles in a very different filmic universe.

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    Frances McDormand plays Mildred Hayes in one of the year’s best, ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.’ Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox
    The Movies That Mattered in 2017
    By Robert Horton • December 20, 2017 1:30 am

    Tribalism aside, it was a banner year for film.

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    Courtesy of Focus Features
    ‘Darkest Hour’ Aims for an Oscar, but Misses...
    By Robert Horton • December 20, 2017 1:30 am

    Gary Oldman and company don’t do the moment justice.

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    The Highfalutin’ Fantasy of ‘Call Me by Your Name’
    The Highfalutin’ Fantasy of ‘Call Me by Your...
    By Robert Horton • December 20, 2017 1:30 am

    The latest from director James Ivory is a tad pretentious, very smart, and plenty beautiful.

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