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Cruel Gun Story, aka Kenjū zankoku monogatari (1964, Dir. Takumi Furukawa): You’re 36 years old. Old enough that you should know what your future holds. — Cruel Gun Story At first…
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Stanley Kubrick's early heist film honors the conventions of noir cinema, while announcing his arrival as a one-of-a-kind filmmaker.
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016, Dir. Gareth Edwards): Warning: some mild spoilers ahead. “Normally, someone will have an idea for how a concept begins, and all ideas explode…
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The Magnificent Seven (2016, Dir. Antoine Fuqua): Fourteen minutes into the remake of The Magnificent Seven, Denzel Washington saunters into a bar. He’s a cowboy dressed all in black, like Yul…
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Doctor Strange (2016, Dir. Scott Derrickson): Ever since his introduction in 1963, Doctor Strange has always been among the trippiest of Marvel’s superheroes. A sorcerer through-and-through, given to bending time…
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Star Trek Beyond (2016, Dir. Justin Lin): You can’t make a cerebral Star Trek in 2016. It just wouldn’t work in today’s marketplace. You can hide things in there —…
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Tom Hiddleston auditions for James Bond in the glamorous "The Night Manager" -- but does the soul of John le Carré's novel survive the translation?
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X-Men: Apocalypse (2016, Dir. Bryan Singer): While other comic book movies are about the money shots — the effects-laden finales, the showdowns between the high-powered heroes and the supercharged villains — Fox’s X-Men franchise, particularly the…
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Suite Amoricaine (2015, Dir. Pascale Breton): I’ve been to university. I studied geography. I wanted to show this because this is a place that allows us to talk about our…
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Trivisa (2016, Dir. Frank Hui, Jevons Au, Vicky Wong): What inspired me was Shakespeare’s Macbeth. And if these three guys hadn’t gone into the restaurant at the same time, it would…
