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The movie wants you to admire its beautiful set pieces while making you miserable.

She was at the absolute core of the comedy scene in the last half century.

Embarrassing stats for the mediocre Sinners.

Personal filmmaking recalls Todd Solondz and redeems the A24 formula.

The outrage peddlers will tell you the Best Picture category is a wasteland. It isn't.

The Dardenne brothers document social development.

Instead of going where no man has gone before, Starfleet Academy's engines have stalled in creative exhaustion.

If I Had Legs kvetches relentlessly.

Baumbach seems trapped in his own dishonest fantasy, attempting to fashion a glamorous Willy Loman out of a self-sentimentalizing Hollywood egotist.

The movies that saved movies from themselves.