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The Soundtrack of Our Lives: Mike Leigh’s ‘Career Girls’

The Soundtrack of Our Lives: Mike Leigh’s ‘Career Girls’

Keith Phipps

Leigh's 1997 film offers a bittersweet depiction of turning into an adult with a soundtrack of buoyant songs from The Cure.

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In Review: 'Past Lives,' 'Flamin' Hot'

In Review: 'Past Lives,' 'Flamin' Hot'

Keith Phipps Scott Tobias

The lives and loves of past and present intermingle in Celine Song's beautiful directorial debut. Spices intermingle with Cheetos in a fact-free true story.

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The Second Acts of Nicole Holofcener and Julia Louis-Dreyfus

The Second Acts of Nicole Holofcener and Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Scott Tobias

With 'Enough Said' and 'You Hurt My Feelings,' the director and actress have charted a course through the anxieties of middle age.

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The Summer of Cyber

The Summer of Cyber

Keith Phipps

In 1995, a quartet of techno thrillers offered some dire, if confusing, warnings.

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In Review: 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,' 'The Boogeyman'

In Review: 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,' 'The Boogeyman'

Scott Tobias Keith Phipps

The animated Spider-Verse expands its web without losing any threads while a '70s Stephen King story gets a very 2023 adaptation.

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The '80s in 40: ‘Stripes’ (June 26, 1981)

The '80s in 40: ‘Stripes’ (June 26, 1981)

Keith Phipps

'Stripes' helped confirm Bill Murray as a movie star by packaging his rebelliousness in a fundamentally safe comedy filled with half-hearted jabs at authority.

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