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Review: The Best of Enemies

Much like last year's problematic, Oscar-winning Green Book, The Best of Enemies is based on a little-known, unlikely yet true...

Perfectly crafted and even more perfectly executed, it's no exaggeration to say that Mission: Impossible - Fallout is one of the best...

Fellini's 8 1/2 conveyed with Antonioni's spatial compositions, Terrence Malick's characteristically gorgeous and poetic Knight of Cups...

"We are dead in the water without this woman," Rich Ruskin (James Marsden) declares to his disbelieving network staff. The woman in...

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother," Abraham Lincoln famously said of his beloved mother Nancy, who died of milk...

Inspired by actual events, Pioneer is set in the early 1980's when the Norwegian oil boom was in its infancy. Oil has been discovered in...

Time and reality have oft been bendable concepts in Christopher Nolan's films. Think of Memento, in which Guy Pearce's Leonard battles...

Forty-two-year old Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) masturbates in the shower. "This will be the high point of my day," he voiceovers. He's...

Beloved strives to be a film of uncommon grace. Oh, how it strives! Helmed by Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the...