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Titane Strives to Shock, But It’s Running on Empty
There’s a fine line between movies that are genuinely original and those that feel deliberately orchestrated to shock and repel us in a winking, self-congratulatory way. French filmmaker Julia Ducournau’s alleged film scandale, Titane, in which a sullen young woman has sex with a car and finds herself pregnant, won the Palme d’Or, the top prize…
The Problem With Jon Stewart Could Be Great, If It Ever Catches Up to the Present
“I remember your march,” a guest says, referring to Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s jokey Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, held on the National Mall in 2010. “I think it was against insanity.” Stewart: “Yeah, we won.”
Just Try to Look Away From Jake Gyllenhaal’s Gripping Performance in The Guilty
There are some actors so intense, their nerve endings sizzling so close to the surface, that they can make you want to look away. That’s Jake Gyllenhaal, as a disgraced Los Angeles police detective demoted to 911 dispatcher, in Antoine Fuqua’s stripped-down cop drama The Guilty. The film is opening in select theaters and will…
The 5 Best New TV Shows Our Critic Watched in September 2021
From Mike Flanagan's annual horror show to a hit Korean thriller
No Time to Die Is an Imperfect Movie. But It’s a Perfect Finale for the Best James Bond Ever
Craig's fifth and final movie as James Bond has its flaws, but it's still a fitting send-off for the greatest Bond
Three New Britney Spears Documentaries Tell a Chilling Tale About the Bystander Effect
For years, it seemed that no one knew what was going on with Britney Spears. In fact, many people knew, but nobody managed to stop it
Netflix’s Maid Is an Empathetic Portrait of Poverty That Dispels the Myth of Bootstrapping
'Maid' demonstrates how the families our society refuses to help can get trapped in cycles of poverty and abuse.
Don’t Fall for Dear Evan Hansen
Dear Evan Hansen, the film adaptation of Steven Levenson’s multiple-award-winning stage musical, is ostensibly a nice little movie about a teen trying to overcome Social Anxiety disorder, about learning that it’s OK to be anxious and depressed and that being medicated for those things, if necessary, is normal and healthy. But it’s really a monster…
What If a Robot Was Your Perfect Match? I’m Your Man Explores an AI Love Affair
The pulse of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, about a man so in love with an illusion he can’t see the reality before him, thrums inside every person who’s obsessed with movies, but the Pygmalion dreams it’s drawn from are universal. In its subterranean way, Vertigo speaks to anyone who has tried to sculpt a relationship into…
Marugame Udon – slurping udon action
Marugame udon first Europe location With over 800 restaurants in Japan, and a further 250 in the rest of Asia and the USA. Marugame Udon has its eyes on the UK and European markets.…
The iPhone 13 Is Perfectly Fine
The iPhone 13 is no longer the cool smartphone choice, more like the pragmatic one
Netflix’s Catholic Horror Story Midnight Mass Is One Hell of a Halloween Binge
After a slow first two episodes, the show’s alchemy of spectacle, suspense and storytelling starts working. A binge becomes not just inevitable, but also unexpectedly satisfying.