There is something so simultaneously satisfying and melancholy about coming to the last page of a great novel – especially

With both films receiving wide theatrical release nearly simultaneously, it’s difficult to write about James Marsh’s Stephen Hawking biopic The

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For argument’s sake, let’s start from the basic premise that comic-book superhero movies are, in essence, dumb: the visual-entertainment equivalent

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When The Imitation Game comes around, run, don’t walk, to see it. Norwegian director Morten Tyldum’s English-language debut, with a

Because the Village Voice’s resident movie reviewer Jonas Mekas was off making a film of his own in June of

What does it say about our times that dysfunctional family comedies have become a freestanding subgenre in the moviemaking universe?

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Oh blasé moviegoer, when was the last time that you walked out of a cinema feeling well and truly rattled