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Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse and Abra in 'Assassination Nation.' Neon Films Fear not, ye sensitive viewers who have stumbled into writer-director Sam Levinson’s story of four young women who go from shamed, blamed, framed victims to avenging angels: […]
Mark Johnson/IFC FIlms Here in the States, the populace worships the Kardashians. In the U.K., there’s nothing like a Dame. In a sane world, there’s no contest. So do have tea with the Dames: Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins […]
Jack Black, Owen Vaccaro and Cate Blanchett in 'The House With A Clock in Its Walls.' Quantrell Colbert/Universal Pictures If you want to scare the kiddies but still keep them giggling, Jack Black is your man. This peerless comic actor […]
Colette was a pioneer in women’s rights, an author who was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature six years before her death in 1954. But director Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice) — working from a script he wrote with his […]
Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly in 'The Sisters Brothers.' Magali Bragard The title seems like a joke: How the hell did Charlie Sisters (Joaquin Phoenix) and his older brother Eli (John C. Reilly) grow up in the Old West […]
Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde in "Life Itself." Jon Pack/Amazon Studios How do you rate a cinematic black hole that doesn’t deserve a single star? Do you simply give it five eyerolls? Better question: How does a movie, with all […]