This grim movie presents Adrien Brody’s character, a garbageman named Clean, as the wronged party in an unforgiving world.
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Movie Tuesday: Jazz on film
Both highly collaborative art forms often play on improvisation and the music of chance.
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Movie Tuesday: The male animal
Five films that examine, interrogate, or critique traditional male behavior.
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Vox Lux and The Mule present two very different responses to our nation’s ills
While one finds only despair, the other argues that we’re still capable of kindness, despite the terrible things we do.
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Clint Eastwood finds his inner Eric Rohmer with The 15:17 to Paris.
Young men frolic like ponies, then thwart a terror attack, in the action director’s latest.
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The lawless Chicago portrayed in the new Death Wish trailer is the stuff of Trumpian fantasy
The new trailer for the Death Wish remake portrays a Chicago that looks like Donald Trump’s dream come true.
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Thank You for Your Service should have played it by the book
Miles Teller stars in this adaptation of David Finkel’s examination of the mental-health crisis among U.S. veterans.
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Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled is only a superficial success
Coppola’s adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s novel is better directed than written.
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With Sully, Clint Eastwood recalls a story no one has forgotten yet
Tom Hanks stars as Chesley Sullenberger, the airline pilot behind the Miracle on the Hudson.
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The Polish Film Festival comes to town, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Jean-Luc Godard goes 3-D, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Bradley Cooper is number one with a bullet in American Sniper
With American Sniper, Clint Eastwood tells the story of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle.
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Jersey Boys isn’t Clint Eastwood’s first film about professional singers. . .
Revisiting Eastwood’s 1982 period comedy Honkytonk Man
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Clint Eastwood
The best of American maverick filmmaker Clint Eastwood