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Seeing Through a Monster’s Eyes
The Zone of Interest is a very different kind of horror, and Holocaust, film.
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Dune’s Dark Destinies
A new film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s cult classic asks whether heroes truly get to choose their fate.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men—Or Not
Napoleon, Oppenheimer, and other historic figures shrink on the silver screen.
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Barbie and the Franken-Feminists
The recent films Barbie and Poor Things try to reinvent the woman—and fail.
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Wes Anderson, Maturing Auteur
In Asteroid City, directorial control competes with the free play that gives life to cinema.
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The Oscars’ Night of the Living Dead
Dead sentiments walking at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony.
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The Djinn and the Bed Trick
A new film about desire fails to satisfy, but a recent production of Shakespeare does.
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Two Hamlets of the 21st Century
The Northman and Fat Ham present tragic and comic reinterpretations of the prince of Denmark’s revenge tale.
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The Tragedy of Joel Coen’s Macbeth
A new adaptation of the Scottish play sets aside supernatural terror for court intrigue
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Burning Down the House
“Last Night in Soho” tests whether we can see the past as anything other than more of the present.
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