Julianne Moore Brings Down the House in ‘The Debut’
Jesse Eisenberg's third feature hands Julianne Moore a bit part in a community theater production and lets her play it like the role of her life.
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Sex in Movies Isn't Dying, It's Changing
Movies are having less sex. Are they less erotic? A take on what a sex scene is really for.
Gels Will Not Save ‘The Serpent's Skin’
Alice Maio Mackay has the witches, the vampires, and the pink glowing eyes. What she does not have is a reason for any of it.
‘Ink’ Doesn’t Practice What It Prints
Danny Boyle's Murdoch movie is a visually striking take on the beginning of the end of the news, with its own murky moral compass.
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stories that go deeper
‘Michael Clayton’ and the Complicity of the Janitors
A lawn too green to be real, a neighbor who worked at Monsanto, and the working-class janitor at the center of Michael Clayton. On who carries the blame.
Should we keep watching ‘Michael Clayton’?
Soon, the films that defined a generation of millennials will be twenty years old. Revisiting some of them, we can ask which ones will still be watched.
‘The Vanishing’ is Evil and Essential
The most famous abduction in Dutch cinema happens in flat midday light, in full view, with nothing hidden — and it still makes you sign the contract.