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The Best Films of the Year So Far (* According to Metacritic, According to Me): Part II

The Best Films of the Year So Far (* According to Metacritic, According to Me): Part II

Scott Tobias

The top of the charts offers another wide range of experiences, though three films, including the best of the best, deal sympathetically with women in high-stress situations.

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#88 (tie): 'Chungking Express': The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time

#88 (tie): 'Chungking Express': The Reveal discusses all 100 of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time

Keith Phipps Scott Tobias

Made during the director's downtime on another movie, Wong Kar-wai's 1994 breakthrough captures a Hong Kong filled with characters driven half-mad by love.

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In Review: 'A Haunting in Venice,' 'Dumb Money,' 'Cassandro'

In Review: 'A Haunting in Venice,' 'Dumb Money,' 'Cassandro'

Keith Phipps Scott Tobias

Branagh takes on Agatha Christie (again), Craig Gillespie revisits the GameStop stock rush, and Gael Garcia Bernal dons tights and make-up in a Mexican wrestling biopic.

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The Best Films of the Year (* According to Metacritic, According to Me): Part I

The Best Films of the Year (* According to Metacritic, According to Me): Part I

Scott Tobias

My annual mid-ish year round-up of acclaimed films I missed includes two dramas about green energy coming to rural Spain and a heartrending doc about Alzheimer's.

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The Streaming Era’s Classic Animation Problem (and Why It Looks Like Only Disney Is Trying to Solve It)

The Streaming Era’s Classic Animation Problem (and Why It Looks Like Only Disney Is Trying to Solve It)

Keith Phipps

Technology has the potential to put swathes of golden age cartoons at our fingertips. So why is it mostly disappearing instead?

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In Review: 'El Conde,' 'The Nun II'

In Review: 'El Conde,' 'The Nun II'

Keith Phipps Scott Tobias

It's a week filled with vampires and demon nuns thanks to two films that use supernatural monsters in strikingly different ways.

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