The weight of Nadine Labaki's masterfully devastating Capernaum is borne on the spindly shoulders of 12-year-old Zain (al Rafeea), an angry, combative boy on the streets of Beirut, battling his unloving parents and a chaotic, brutal world commited to taking from him every good thing he has.
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Saturday, March 2, 2019
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In 2008, D.J. Caruso directed an AI-gone-rogue thriller that starred real-world PITA Shia LaBeouf and the always welcome Michelle Monaghan...
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As you closely read the two photographs above -- Sally Mann's "Candy Cigarette"(top) and Diane Arbus's ...
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The release of a new Paul Thomas Anderson (PTA) feature film is an event for cinephiles because the decidedly quirky and celebrated auteur...
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Episode 3 of Netflix's Emmy-nominated miniseries Adolescence is essentially a two-player one-act that features Erin Doherty as psychol...
