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June 9, 2015
Malcolm Thorndike Nicholson
On Being Human: Roy Andersson Reflects the Dark Humor of Existing
June 8, 2015
Brandon Harris
Black America's Forgotten Film History
A new MoMA exhibit puts black films front and center
May 28, 2015
Jeet Heer
The New David Foster Wallace Movie Isn’t a Biopic. It’s Another 'Rolling Stone' Writer Flick.
May 23, 2015
Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael's First Film Review for The New Republic
'Godard Among the Gangsters,' September 10, 1966
May 19, 2015
Saul Austerlitz
From Homeless to Hollywood: A New Film Built From a Rough Life
May 15, 2015
Elaine Teng
The Time Anna Kendrick Said I Smelled Like an Old Cinnamon Cupcake
May 14, 2015
Saul Austerlitz
The Film Buff’s Tour of New York
May 10, 2015
Mikaela Lefrak
The ‘Cannibal Cop’ Was a Creep, Not a Criminal
May 9, 2015
Oliver Farry
How to Make a Good Film About Writing
May 8, 2015
Shannon Kelley
Hollywood Is Finally Making Way for the Female Loser
May 8, 2015
Michael J. Agovino
This New Italian Movie May Herald a Cinematic Renaissance
April 30, 2015
Elaine Teng
'Far from the Madding Crowd' Tries Too Hard to Make Its Victorian Heroine a 21st-Century Feminist
April 22, 2015
Sarah Kollmorgen
Why Are Climate Change Docs So Boring? Because It Works.
April 21, 2015
Malcolm Thorndike Nicholson
“You Won’t Find Anything. It’s All Been Destroyed.”
A new documentary on the Khmer Rouge resurrects a lost Cambodia.
April 21, 2015
Noah Berlatsky
Why Do We Love Batman But Hate Superman?
"Sure let's cheer on the billionaire as he beats down the poor farm guy who grew up feeling othered."
April 20, 2015
Naomi Fry
All Apologies
A new Kurt Cobain documentary reminds us of what we lost when he died
April 9, 2015
Elaine Teng
A New Boston Marathon Documentary Tries—And Fails—to Scare Us About The Internet
April 2, 2015
Elaine Teng
Even Film Snobs Will Love 'Furious 7'
March 27, 2015
Sam Eifling
Sex Before the Internet Was Scary Enough to Be a Horror Film
March 17, 2015
Jeet Heer
C-List Celebrities Won't Help Netanyahu in the Israeli Elections

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