How do we judge a movie made from a book written by someone with repellent political views?
Movies
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More Than a Teenage Dream
The Spectacular Now recalls an era of films that dealt with a complicated adolescent existence.
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Artificial Love
Would it be possible to fall in love with an artificial intelligence? A new film seems to say yes.
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Zombies, Zombies Everywhere
How the video game The Last of Us fits into the growing catalog of post-apocalyptic media.
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Not That Exciting
Pedro Almodovar’s latest film, I’m So Excited! is less than thrilling but doesn’t spell the end of the famed Spanish director.Â
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Last Day of a Young Black Man
Fruitvale Station’s intimate portrait of Oscar Grant promises better days ahead for black film.
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Vacant Beauty, Boredom, and The Bling Ring
With her latest film, Sophia Coppola emerges as successor to Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni, master of disaffection and alienation.Â
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All Tomorrow’s Parties
Gay Equality 1, Civil Rights 0 – join us in wondering how to celebrate this Fourth of July. (Hint: not by seeing Johnny Depp’s new movie, that’s for sure.)
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Burning Down the (White) House
White House Down, when ranked among the other dull offerings of this summer blockbuster season, is worth its weight in kabooms. You will be entertained.Â
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The Great Gandolfini
The actor’s genius was his knack for humanizing but not sentimentalizing his tough guy characters.
