Repertory
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We take a look back at the Japan-crazy films of 2003: "Lost in Translation," "Kill Bill Vol. 1" and "The Last Samurai."
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If James Bond was at the forefront of the Swinging Sixties, then perhaps it's fitting that 1967's "Casino Royale" heralds the era's crash landing.
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Ana Lily Amirpour's genre-bending "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" is an unpredictable, punky, hypnotic take on vampire movies.
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Once a Thief (1965, Dir. Ralph Nelson): The opening of Once a Thief is a literal hoot and a holler that catapults us back to San Francisco of the mid-sixties. Within…
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Purple Rain (1984, Dir. Albert Magnoli): Now that we’re just beginning to process the untimely passing of the Artist formerly known as Prince Rodgers Nelson, we can brace ourselves for memorializing aplenty in the months…
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Die Another Day (2002, Dir. Lee Tamahori): For this review, we’re changing things up: I invited my colleague Urian Brown, the man behind the profane and funny Brown That Banana blog, to co-critique…
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The World Is Not Enough (1999, Dir. Michael Apted): ‘My father came from the Highlands, from near Glencoe. But look here…’ ‘What’s that?’ Griffon Or looked at him in astonishment.…
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"Tomorrow Never Dies," Pierce Brosnan's second outing as 007, is a perpetual action machine that occasionally remembers it's a Bond movie.
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GoldenEye (1995, Dir. Martin Campbell): When I started to write these books in 1952, I wanted to find a name that didn’t have any sort of romantic overtones… I wanted…
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Licence to Kill (1989, Dir. John Glen): There was the shape of a body on Leiter’s bed. It was covered with a sheet. Over the face, the sheet seemed to…