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Opening This Week: LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS, ROSEMEAD, JUJUTSU KAISEN: EXECUTION
Plus: 'Under Current (Noi Mok),' '100 Nights of Hero,' 'Frontier Crucible.'
Sound And Vision: Dick Maas
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at several music videos for Golden Earring, directed by Dick Maas. Dutch cult director Dick Maas made a...
Now Streaming: STRANGER THINGS, BLOSSOMS SHANGHAI, THE BALTIMORONS
Plus: 'Left-Handed Girl,' 'The Beatles Anthology' and new 'Krypto Saves the Day!'
Friday One Sheet: RELAPSE
Sometimes, all you need for an effective piece of key art is a well lit photo and a generous bit of negative space. Frost Foundry's poster for Paul Boyd's live-streaming drug addiction rock and roll drama, Relapse, is just that....
Now Playing: ETERNITY Romance, HAMNET Grief, WAKE UP DEAD MAN Mystery
Plus: 'Zootopia 2' from Disney, and 'The Thing With Feathers,' coming Friday.
Playback: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Civic Tremors, from NEIGHBORING SOUNDS to THE SECRET AGENT
Kleber Mendonça Filho makes politically charged dramas that draw their power from the everyday, letting ordinary Brazilian life tighten with the slow, simmering tension of a thriller. His films lay bare the class rifts and quiet violences embedded in the...
Screen Anarchists On Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN
While Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Frankenstein passed me by during its limited theatrical run, it sure arrived on Netflix pretty fast. I checked it out, discussed it with colleagues, and noticed there were many different opinions on it,...
Sound And Vision: Sam Raimi
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at two music videos by Sam Raimi. In between Evil Dead II and Darkman Sam Raimi made two different...
Now Streaming: GOOD BOY, SANGRE DEL TORO, TRAIN DREAMS
Plus: 'After the Hunt' and 'The Roses.'
Now Playing: SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE, ANGEL'S EGG, THE RED SPECTACLES
Also now in movie theaters: 'Rental Family,' 'Kokuho,' 'Wicked: For Good,' 'Cactus Pears.'
Friday One Sheet: MAGELLAN
The majestic ode to the age of exploration and sail show in today's key art belies the revisionist historical film from slow cinema maestro Lav Diaz. With its hazy sunrise and high grain, and jaunty tilt (note the waterline, and...
Playback: Lee Sang-il, Ruptures and Reckonings, from CHONG to KOKUHO
Lee Sang-il drills into the emotional ruptures of life. His films study how people break -- and who they become afterward. The Japanese director built a career on emotionally precise, performance-driven dramas that illuminate how people fracture under extraordinary pressure....
Opening This Week: SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE, ANGEL'S EGG, Plus 2 FYC Contenders and a Drama
Our guide to what's opening this week in movie theaters.
Now Streaming Weekly Roundup: LAST SAMURAI STANDING Fights, TATSUKI FUJIMOTO 17-26 Dazzles, THE CREEP TAPES Startle
Plus: 'The Beast in Me' screams, 'Malice' disappoints. 'Palm Royale' returns.
Playback: Guillermo del Toro, Monstrous Beauty from CRONOS to FRANKENSTEIN
Guillermo del Toro treats fear as a form of faith. His stories believe in what frightens us because it's often what defines us. The Mexican director builds ornate, allegorical worlds where the monster is never merely monstrous. His films are...
Opening This Week: Edgar Wright's THE RUNNING MAN, John Swab's KING IVORY
Also: 'Muzzle: City of Wolves,' 'Trap House,' 'Now You See Me: Now You Don't.'
Now Playing: PREDATOR: BADLANDS, DIE MY LOVE, NUREMBERG
As we said earlier this week, "we love movies. And we love the theatrical experience. There's no better way to experience fully the filmmakers' intention." In this new weekly feature, we will update our 'look-ahead' guide from each Monday, updated...
Now Streaming: ABRAHAM'S BOYS, Human Monsters, FRANKENSTEIN, The Real Monster
Beyond the monsters, 'Materialists,' 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps,' and 'Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale' are now streaming, plus: #Noirvember!
Now Streaming: PLURIBUS Sci-Fi Mysteries, DEATH BY LIGHTNING Dramatizes History
Plus: 'All Her Fault' soaps up the tension.
Friday One Sheet: TRAIN DREAMS
Here is a lovely hand-drawn poster from design house Grandson, and artist Sally Deng, for Clint Bentley's Train Dreams, which illustrates one of the films central images: work boots nailed to a tree, a potent visual metaphor for the manifest destiny...
