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Month: November 2018

Joel Edgerton’s “Boy Erased” Is a Powerful Look at the Horrors of Gay Conversion Therapy

Joel Edgerton’s “Boy Erased” Is a Powerful Look at the Horrors of Gay Conversion Therapy

November 29, 2018

  NOVEMBER 29, 2018 2018 has proven to be the autumn of the troubled teen. We’ve had a parade of some of Hollywood’s hottest young actors emoting their best by…

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Melissa McCarthy is Magnificent in the Slyly Heartbreaking “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”

Melissa McCarthy is Magnificent in the Slyly Heartbreaking “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”

November 26, 2018

  NOVEMBER 26, 2018 “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” is one of the funniest films about loneliness that I have seen in…maybe ever. It’s the early 1990s in Manhattan.  The…

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Looking At The 2018 Best Original Screenplay Race

Looking At The 2018 Best Original Screenplay Race

November 23, 2018

  NOVEMBER 23, 2018 For me, at least, there’s always been something special about the Oscar category of Best Original Screenplay. Don’t get me wrong — I bow to no…

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Looking At The 2018 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Race

Looking At The 2018 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Race

November 21, 2018

  NOVEMBER 21, 2018 God, I love the Writers Branch of the Academy. In years where almost every other Academy branch seemed to rubber stamp the anointed front-runners, the writers…

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“The Front Runner” Is Exactly the Film That We Don’t Need Right Now

“The Front Runner” Is Exactly the Film That We Don’t Need Right Now

November 19, 2018

  NOVEMBER 19, 2018 As faithful readers of this column know, I am and always have been an enormous political junkie.  That’s entirely thanks to my grandmother, who, even when…

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Director Steve McQueen Flips the Heist Genre on Its Head with “Widows,” and the Results Are Sensational

Director Steve McQueen Flips the Heist Genre on Its Head with “Widows,” and the Results Are Sensational

November 15, 2018

  NOVEMBER 15, 2018 By any standard, “Widows” is a smashing success. “Widows” is the first film directed by Steve McQueen since he won an Oscar for 2012’s “12 Years…

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There’s a Powerful Film On Teen Drug Addiction Buried Somewhere Inside “Beautiful Boy,” But This One Ain’t It

There’s a Powerful Film On Teen Drug Addiction Buried Somewhere Inside “Beautiful Boy,” But This One Ain’t It

November 12, 2018

  NOVEMBER 12, 2018 “Beautiful Boy,” a story about a young man’s deepening drug addiction and his father’s desperate attempt to pull him back from the abyss, seems designed to…

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Midterms 2018 — After Democrats Retake the House, Trump Gives Jeff Sessions the Boot

Midterms 2018 — After Democrats Retake the House, Trump Gives Jeff Sessions the Boot

November 7, 2018

  NOVEMBER 7, 2018 Photo: Erin Schaff for The New York Times It was a great night for Democrats, as they retook control of the U.S. House of Representatives with…

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“Free Solo” — Climbing the Cliff Face of Yosemite’s El Capitan Without a Rope?  Sure, Why Not?

“Free Solo” — Climbing the Cliff Face of Yosemite’s El Capitan Without a Rope? Sure, Why Not?

November 5, 2018

  NOVEMBER 5, 2018 OK, I’ll admit it. Over the past few years, I’ve developed a deep-set fear of heights. I mean a shrinking-of-your-nether-regions fear of heights. So when “Free Solo,” a…

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