The chemistry of Mills’s cast is so compelling that it carries the film above the weight of its more navel-gazing moments.
Tag: Joaquin Phoenix
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The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days 29 and 30
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
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Movie Tuesday: Clowns and carnivals
Five films that prominently feature circus imagery and ideas
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Natural Affection at the Athenaeum Theatre and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
The film Beirut and more goings-on the week of 4/23-4/26.
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You Were Never Really Here updates Taxi Driver to an even colder urban landscape
In the latest from Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin), Joaquin Phoenix plays a hit man who specializes in rescuing child prostitutes.
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Joaquin Phoenix and Woody Allen make you think twice about murder in Irrational Man
Reminiscent of Claude Chabrol’s films, Allen’s latest is a breezy film about moral dilemmas.
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Agnes Le Roux is gone, but the teen sex comedy is back—plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Pornography remains a major influence on Paul Thomas Anderson
Retired adult-film performer Michelle Sinclair plays a small (but crucial) role in Anderson’s Thomas Pynchon adaptation.
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Someone ought to revive I’m Still Here alongside The Master
Considering connections between two very different Joaquin Phoenix films
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This is between me and Her (and Spike Jonze)
Spike Jonze’s Her invites a subjective response.
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Introducing scary eyes herself, Jewel Carter Cash
Lifetime’s biopic Ring of Fire doesn’t quite do June Carter Cash justice
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The Chicago International Film Festival, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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CIFF Director Spotlight: James Gray presents The Immigrant
Chicago International Film Festival: We Own the Night director James Gray presents The Immigrant.
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The Swimmer and other movies that ask “who is that?”
Noting a few ways that filmmakers can defamiliarize the presence of actors
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Thomas Mann, film critic
What might the author of Death in Venice have had to say about Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master?