There are powerhouse movies that knock you for a loop and take weeks to recover from – and then there is Paul Schrader‘s First Reformed. Not only is this faith-in-crisis drama one of the legendary writer-director’s most incendiary films ever, it’s one of the year’s very best – a cinematic …
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Yes, everyone’s set to watch the Avengers chase evil to infinity and beyond this weekend. But you might want to check out Disobedience– a gorgeously acted, written and directed spellbinder set so far outside the Marvel universe that it thinks the problems of real people are far more compelling than …
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Who better than Richard Linklater to craft a movie about people talking – and in doing so, revealing the quirks and flaws that make them human? Whether it’s Boyhood or the “Before” trilogy, the Texas-based writer-director and indie-film figurehead is always alert to the moments when people drop their public …
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This scattershot satire of the dark underbelly of 1950s suburbia feels like a movie the Coen brothers forgot to make. It is their script, which means the laughs still have bite. And the director is George Clooney, who’s previously worked as an actor with the Coens, sometimes smashingly (O Brother …
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