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Now Playing In Your Living Room: Eddie Murphy Returns and Rules in “Dolemite Is My Name”
DECEMBER 23, 2019 Watching Eddie Murphy’s brilliant hosting job this past weekend on “Saturday Night Live,” I was reminded his great return to movies this fall in the comedy…
Now Playing In Your Living Room: “The Two Popes” Is an Actor’s Showcase and a Smart Exploration of Faith
DECEMBER 21, 2019 I love “What if?” movies. Quentin Tarantino has been dealing with revising history in “Inglorious Basterds” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” and the results…
Now Playing In Your Living Room — Noah Baumbach’s Funny and Painful “Marriage Story”
DECEMBER 9, 2019 Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” begins with the voice of Charlie Barber (Adam Driver) extolling the many reasons why she loves his wife Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) —…
Is Makota Shinkai the New Future of Japanese Animation? With His Latest, “Weathering With You,” All Signs Indicate Yes
DECEMBER 3, 2019 Though animation fans certainly know the work of the great Japanese animator Hiyao Miyazaki and his famed workplace Studio Ghibli from such films as the Oscar-winning…
Now Playing In Your Living Room: Yet Another Modern Classic From Martin Scorsese — “The Irishman”
NOVEMBER 29, 2019 “The Irishman” may be set in the world of gangsters, but it’s not really about crime. When all is said and done, it is a melancholy…
“Pain and Glory” Is Major Pedro Almodóvar With a Career-Best Performance by Antonio Banderas
OCTOBER 30, 2019 Pedro Almodóvar is back. “Pain and Glory” is the 21st film by the acclaimed Spanish writer/director who won an Oscar for writing 2002’s “Talk To Her”…
Bong-101: Get To Know Bong Joon-ho
OCTOBER 15, 2019 With “Parasite,” this year’s Cannes winner of the Palme d’Or, now opening in American theaters, a significant number of U.S. moviegoers will be introduced for the…
“Parasite” Is a Masterpiece and the Best Picture of the Year So Far
OCTOBER 8, 2019 Bong Joon-Ho is a one-of-a-kind filmmaker. There’s not that many still left. Quentin Tarantino is one, and Robert Altman was another, filmmakers whose style is so…
