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Rise of the Ronin Wastes Interesting Setting with Clunky Gameplay
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2020’s “The Ghost of Tsushima” was a surprising highlight during the pandemic summer, a game so inspired by cinematic language that it had a mode named after Akira Kurosawa. Four years later, “The Rise of the Ronin” will be compared...
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MUBI’s April 2024 Lineup Features Andrew Haigh, S. Craig Zahler, Bong Joon Ho & More
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MUBI has unveiled next’s streaming lineup, featuring notable new releases, including Molly Manning Walker’s debut How to Have Sex, Kevin Macdonald’s High & Low: John Galliano, and Quentin Dupieux’s Yannick. Ahead of Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, two of his...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Med Hondo, Wojciech Has, 1974, He Got Game & More
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Once more, and with feeling…Roxy CinemaOur 35mm print of Bertrand Bonello’s House of Tolerance has a final screening on Sunday; Spike Lee’s He Got Game and Hoosiers play on prints, while Blonde Ambition screens this Sunday. Anthology Film ArchivesThe films...
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Friday One Sheet: MONKEY MAN
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No beating about the bush with this one. With its saturated reds, high grain, and brooding intensity, the key art for Dev Patel's Monkey Man signals blood and tightly bound bombast. Eschewing a standard credit block, and putting all text...
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I Need Your Magic: M. Emmett Walsh (1935-2024)
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Harrison Ford walks through Union Station, doubling as police headquarters, as the camera comes to meet him, disappearing behind a dusty, trash covered roof, and then finding him at the open door to a man’s office. Ford’s been picked up...
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Karen Gillan Is Hiding in Plain Sight
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As soon as we meet Laura, we suspect she’s up to no good. She’s a crucial peripheral character in “Sleeping Dogs,” a “Memento”-like thriller in which retired homicide detective Roy (Russell Crowe), who is in the grips of Alzheimer’s, decides...
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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
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A corporate video is not art, as much as its director might want it to be. And yet, the people who work on such projects are expected to display the slavish devotion of passionate and committed artists. Working 18 or...
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Free Time
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Colin Burgess is having a bit of a moment with the buzzy success of the micro-indie “Dad & Step-Dad” and this week’s release of the truly funny and clever “Free Time,” a movie that uses Burgess’ on-screen energy perfectly. Ryan Martin...
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Late Night with the Devil
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Is there any scenario in which "Late Night with the Devil" could have delivered on its promise? I'm not seeing it. Set in 1977, the movie envisions a nonexistent fourth commercial broadcast network (there were only three back then) and then imagines a competitor emerging...
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Shirley
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John Ridley's "Shirley" examines the 1972 presidential campaign of Shirley Chisholm (Regina King), the first Black woman to be elected to Congress, and the first woman to campaign for the Democratic nomination for President. Across the timeline of her run for...
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