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Spielberg gives away his authority over the frame for long stretches of this film, and those stretches are the most formally rigorous work of his career; what surrounds them cannot bear to leave a viewer alone with what has been photographed.
Back to the Future
Zemeckis and Gale built a clockwork so smooth that people praise the clock instead of the picture, and the picture is a genuinely moving story about forgiving two people for having once been young and frightened.
★ 4.5Marcus Reid
Stalker
★ 4.8Vera Lindqvist
Seven Samurai
★ 4.8
The week's read
“Everything in this film is dirty, dented and second-hand, and that texture, plus Ben Burtt's junk-built sound and one dry unhurried voice, is where the sensation actually lives.”
from Watch It for the Dents · Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · by Amara Osei ·
Film writing that isn’t a review — the people who make pictures away from the picture, the arguments the industry is having, and what to watch next.
Black actors declined Paul Schrader’s crime noir because its three leads were written as a corrupt cop, a drug dealer and a sex criminal. Schrader first blamed the lack of “good Black people” in the story, then said the real problem was finding bankable stars.
Marcus Reid
A 22-year-old Affleck-Phoenix heir joined Casey Affleck and Ben Affleck on the red carpet for Company, bringing a family casting story and a startling resemblance into the same frame.
Dorothy Kwan
Join the fandom, pick a film, and tell us what Ebert would have thought.
Yoyo and Nene, the Little Witch Sisters
2013
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La La Land
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