Five movies remind us that filmmakers have always been fascinated with the box in the living room
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Check in, then check out these five iconic hotel movies
Hotels play a starring role in film history, from Georges Méliès in 1897 to Wes Anderson in 2014.
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Cameron Crowe goes Hawaiian, plus the rest of this week’s new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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The year’s best movie (so far), plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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The Marx Brothers TV Collection follows the legendary comedy team into the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s
A new three-DVD set from Shout! Factory collects the Marx Brothers’ TV appearances.
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Romania mania, revealing Reeling, and the rest of this week’s careening screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Further thoughts on 22 Jump Street, devils, and cartoons
How The Wolf of Wall Street and The Lego Movie made me change my tune on the Jonah Hill-Channing Tatum comedy series.
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A fish-out-of-water comedy that’s just Godunov
The Family features Robert De Niro parodying his past film roles—and American stereotypes in general.
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Best Film Retrospective
The series on this forgotten French comedian was eye-opening.
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Susan Nussbaum’s next act
Celebrated playwright and disability rights activist Susan Nussbaum adds a novel, Good Kings Bad Kings, to her body of work.
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The funniest filmmaker you’ve never heard of
French comedian Pierre Etaix makes a comeback at Gene Siskel Film Center
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Kangaroo huntin’, mate! and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Hitting the books with writer-director Alex Ross Perry
An interview with the writer-director of the independent comedy The Color Wheel