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Review: State Like Sleep

There is a fine line between hypnotic and sleep-inducing, and State of Sleep very often crosses into the former. The tone of detachment...

As with Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone before it, Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is a decidedly adult fairy tale that...

"Lethargic, listless, torpid, moribund..." describes Gael García Bernal's Professor Fabio Cavani of his wait at the airport's immigration...

A solid cast led by a reliably outstanding Michael Shannon offsets writer-director Bart Freundlich's formulaic narrative and execution in...

A moody dissection of male jealousy fronted by a compelling performance by Michael Shannon, Frank and Lola begins in bed as Shannon's...

Combining melodrama with the darkest of pulp noirs, Nocturnal Animals is a chilly and chilling passion play of regret and revenge, duty...

Previously told in the 1996 television movie Mr. and Mrs. Loving and the 2011 documentary The Loving Story, the true story of Richard and...

How does it feel to be like a rolling stone? Complete Unknown, which lyrically references Bob Dylan's song, doesn't so much answer this...

Perhaps one of the oddest moments in White House history occurred on December 21, 1970. That was the day the King of Rock and Roll met...

Watching a movie requires a certain amount of faith. You give yourself over to the dark, place yourself in the hands of a filmmaker who...