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A love triangle runs its course Sexual desire flickers, burns and then burns out in Ira Sachs’ new movie Passages. Tomas (Franz Rogowski), a filmmaker, is a restless soul who exudes a magnetism that both attracts and repels....

Thrilling new horror pic dives deeply into the Dracula mystique The Last Voyage of the Demeter doesn’t look, sound or feel like most of today’s horror movies. As conceived by director André Øverdahl and writers and technicians working...

Rom-com deluxe ‘Shortcomings’ has more than tribal identity on its mind Shortcomings began life as a graphic novel by popular cartoonist Adrian Tomine (Killing and Dying, Optic Nerve), and he wrote its screenplay as well—as directed by TV...

Vacation goes from bad to worse in Afire A summer vacation by the seashore doesn’t seem to be working out for the two men in Christian Petzold’s new film Afire. Leon (Thomas Schubert) and his friend Felix (Langston...

Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is some degree of masterpiece The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer is a fine excuse to study the workings of power in the U.S. Nuclear physicist Oppenheimer is generally credited with orchestrating the development of the first...

Best-selling Barbie doll triggers a pink geyser of money So intense has been the publicity/advertising run-up to the Warner/Mattel candy-mobile Barbie that less wary members of its prospective audience may wonder what makes it worth the hype. What’s so special about a...

A pink geyser of money (Barbie) and the story of the A-bomb’s father (Oppenheimer) So intense has been the publicity/advertising run-up to the Warner/Mattel candy-mobile Barbie that less wary members of its prospective audience may wonder what makes...