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Ty Burr
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Saltburn (2023) |
There’s fertile ground for satire here, but that would require a scalpel, and Fennell wields a blunt hatchet. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Dec 01, 2023
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The Stones and Brian Jones (2023) |
The film is worth a Stones die-hard’s time for the early concert footage and for the participation of a pleasantly doddering Bill Wyman... - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Dec 01, 2023
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In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50 (2022) |
A paean to the pains and ecstasies of extreme music-making. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Dec 01, 2023
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Afire (2023) |
It could be an Eric Rohmer movie that escaped from the 1970s. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Dec 01, 2023
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Maestro (2023) |
“Maestro” is anything but a failure. It's just an achievement that works a little too hard to be an Achievement. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Nov 26, 2023
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Napoleon (2023) |
In the end, you get your money’s worth in extravaganza and cannon fire but not nearly enough of the charismatic personalities and bravura filmmaking a project this gargantuan needs. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Nov 26, 2023
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May December (2023) |
It’s a little as if Bergman’s “Persona” had been remade by the Real Housewives of Savannah. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Nov 19, 2023
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Quiz Lady (2023) |
A very silly movie, which you may sometimes need more than you actually want. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Nov 05, 2023
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Nyad (2023) |
Watch it for the two lead performances if nothing else, and maybe bring a towel. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Nov 05, 2023
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Rustin (2023) |
The film’s a lively, shallow history lesson – you come out knowing a lot about the March on Washington but still wanting to know more about Rustin. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Nov 05, 2023
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Radical (2023) |
You’ve seen this movie before; you probably won’t mind seeing it again. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Nov 05, 2023
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) |
You feel the length of "Killers" in the final hour, but that length feels necessary – a history lesson like this deserves a good, long soak. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Oct 20, 2023
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023) |
Anderson seems to have perfected the art of simultaneously showing and telling – a tinkertoy approach to cinema that can pall over the length of a feature but plays with delightful brio in a short. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Oct 13, 2023
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The Burial (2023) |
Functions as serviceable VOD comfort food on the strength of its two lead performances. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Oct 13, 2023
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Once Within a Time (2023) |
“Once Within A Time” is the product of a ferociously creative hive mind, at whose apex sits an Old Testament prophet furiously warning us of the apocalypse at hand. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Oct 13, 2023
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Woman of the Hour (2023) |
The star has the smarts and the stuff of a born filmmaker, and her performance is nervy and astute... - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 15, 2023
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Wicked Little Letters (2023) |
“Letters” may turn out be popular with an older Sunday matinee crowd, but it’s a wobbly, unconvincing movie. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 15, 2023
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The Royal Hotel (2023) |
“The Royal Hotel” is very well-acted – by the male actors as well as Garner and Henwick – and extremely suspenseful, but it never quite builds to the boiling point it seems headed toward. In its defense, I’m not sure it wants to. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 15, 2023
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Les Indésirables (2023) |
A brilliantly directed epic of displacement, bristling with empathy and rage. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 15, 2023
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Hit Man (2023) |
A witty, relaxed, and cheerfully fictionalized comedy-caper-romance; in the bargain there’s some light philosophical meditations on the impermanence of personality. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 15, 2023
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Fingernails (2023) |
Lo-fi sci-fi with a smidgen of body horror and a big, lovelorn heart. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 15, 2023
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Evil Does Not Exist (2023) |
[A] muted, enigmatic drama that tiptoes along the edge of ecological fear and human uncertainty. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 15, 2023
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La Chimera (2023) |
Zephyrs of metaphor waft through the film, along with discreet laughter at the human comedy and mourning for a people willing to sell their cultural patrimony for cash. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 15, 2023
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Stop Making Sense (1984) |
The movie? It’s still great and it sounds fantastic. The band? Well, you can’t go back to CBGBs anymore. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 12, 2023
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Silver Dollar Road (2023) |
Never manages to land its punches. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 12, 2023
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The Holdovers (2023) |
“The Holdovers” isn’t a return to form for Alexander Payne so much as a concentrated essence of his caustic yet forgiving view of our bumpy, hopeful journey on the road to oblivion. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 12, 2023
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His Three Daughters (2023) |
A heartbreakingly good movie given its production constraints. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 12, 2023
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Dream Scenario (2023) |
A Kafkaesque parable of fame and its discontents. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 12, 2023
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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023) |
A freewheeling, nearly three-hour comedic essay on filmmaking, the gig economy, Tiktok, selling out, staying free, government propaganda, corporate propaganda, and the perils of driving in Bucharest. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 12, 2023
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The Dead Don't Hurt (2023) |
Viggo’s getting better at this. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 12, 2023
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The Critic (2023) |
With a script by Patrick Marber, Romola Garai and Lesley Manville in support, and one of Sir Ian’s juiciest roles since “Gods and Monsters” in 1998, it’s a class act all around. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 12, 2023
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Close to You (2023) |
The problem is a script that feels largely improvised (despite Page and director Dominic Savage receiving a writing credit), resulting in far too many scenes that play out as a series of awkward banalities. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 12, 2023
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The Promised Land (2023) |
“Promised Land” doesn’t break any new ground but replows the old ground with style, muscle, and class. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 11, 2023
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North Star (2023) |
It's earnest and overwritten, sweet and sappy, with lovely gardens and a weirdly miscast Johansson. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 11, 2023
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Finestkind (2023) |
The big oddity is a script that doesn’t know when to stop talking from writer-director Brian Helgeland, who won an Oscar for writing “L.A. Confidential” back in 1997. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 11, 2023
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Dumb Money (2023) |
This kind of thing can turn over-busy and smug (see: The films of Adam McKay), but Gillespie and company keep it all on the right side of antic. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 11, 2023
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The Boy and the Heron (2023) |
“The Boy and the Heron” is beautiful and strange, the way all movies should be and precious few are. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 11, 2023
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Anatomy of a Fall (2023) |
If for no other reason attend “Anatomy of a Fall” for Hüller’s galvanic performance, with its emotions writ large and, when you least expect it, profoundly subtle. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 11, 2023
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American Fiction (2023) |
First-time film director Cord Jefferson shows his TV drama roots but manages to negotiate a devilishly tricky mixture of tones by keeping the comedy grounded while honoring the tragic moments without letting them swamp the ship. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 11, 2023
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Bottoms (2023) |
I kind of loved it. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Sep 01, 2023
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The Oklahoma Kid (1939) |
A B-Western, when all is said and done, but with the Warners’ typically hard nose in matters of class tensions and who’s getting screwed (Native Americans) by whom (Tulsa land-rush barons). - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Aug 25, 2023
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The Hill (2023) |
While the movie has its cliches and missteps... that central generational struggle is as old as the Bible (and “The Jazz Singer”) and still dramatically compelling. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Aug 25, 2023
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Mutt (2023) |
“Mutt” doesn’t really travel anywhere except in circles around its beleaguered hero’s falling and rising sense of self-worth. But that’s enough... - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Aug 25, 2023
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Golda (2023) |
It’s a war film told from a statewoman’s point of view, which both works and doesn’t. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Aug 25, 2023
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The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future (2022) |
There are moments of eerie movie magic here as well as a pervasive didacticism and at least one scene that’s lit like a telenovela. Alegria is one to watch, though, and so is the movie if you’re feeling chancy. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Aug 04, 2023
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War Pony (2022) |
Filmed on the traditional homelands of the Oceti Sakowin and Tongva Peoples, “War Pony” feels lived in, and lived hard. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Aug 04, 2023
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Joy Ride (2023) |
A lot you’ve seen before but with just enough rude freshness to keep from feeling like a complete retread. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Aug 04, 2023
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Passages (2023) |
One of those dramas about a horrible person that movie critics tend to love and often I am one of those critics, but, boy howdy, not this time. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Aug 04, 2023
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Oppenheimer (2023) |
Nolan has set out to make a moral epic, and he succeeds for the most part, or, rather, for the first two thirds of “Oppenheimer,” which contains some of the finest, most galvanizing moviemaking of his career. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Jul 21, 2023
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Barbie (2023) |
What gives me hope was the response of the preview screening audience with whom I saw “Barbie” – mostly women, mostly young – who laughed with a sense of release that had a giddy, liberating edge to it. - Ty Burr's Watch List
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| Posted Jul 19, 2023
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