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10 Thoughts on Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds'

10 Thoughts on Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds' ✦

Keith Phipps

In 1963, Hitchcock followed the mammoth success of ‘Psycho’ with an elusive, unsettling film unlike anything else he’d ever make.

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In Review: 'Bad Boys: Ride Or Die,' 'The Watchers'

In Review: 'Bad Boys: Ride Or Die,' 'The Watchers'

Keith Phipps Scott Tobias

A venerable buddy-cop franchise delivers the action goods while a second-generation director makes an appropriately twisty debut.

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Caught Looking: The Unsavory Allure of ‘Peeping Tom’

Caught Looking: The Unsavory Allure of ‘Peeping Tom’

Keith Phipps

Lost, rediscovered, and newly restored, Michael Powell’s lurid tale of murder and filmmaking has lost none of its power to disturb.

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#75 (tie): 'Spirited Away': The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time

#75 (tie): 'Spirited Away': The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time

Scott Tobias Keith Phipps

The first of two Hiyao Miyazaki films on the Sight & Sound list visits a bathhouse for spirits that operates on its own mesmerizing dream logic.

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In Review: 'Hit Man,' 'In a Violent Nature'

In Review: 'Hit Man,' 'In a Violent Nature'

Keith Phipps Scott Tobias

Richard Linklater's latest casts Glen Powell as psychology professor with a double identity and a new slasher film finds a fresh angle on an old genre.

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Who Rules the Wasteland?: A Conversation About the Original Mad Max Trilogy

Who Rules the Wasteland?: A Conversation About the Original Mad Max Trilogy ✦

Keith Phipps Scott Tobias

The release of 'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' sent us back to first three Mad Max films. We talk them over below.

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