Film & Stage
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We Are the Robots
Machines are mirrors for humanity in two new films and a recent play.
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The Noble Savagery of Sam Peckinpah
“Bloody Sam” was born one hundred years ago this month.
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Encounters with East and West
Salesman in China and Wim Wenders’s Perfect Days are brilliant cultural mirrors.
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Can There Be Ghosts Without God?
The new film Presence shows the shallowness of Steven Soderbergh’s spirituality.
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Bob Dylan’s American Odyssey
James Mangold’s new biopic engages with the greats of Western literature.
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Meeting David Lynch on the Dreaming Plane
The director who plumbed the dark depths of consciousness died this week.
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How “The Brutalist” Brutalizes History
And everything else the supposed “masterpiece” touches.
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“Nosferatu” Defanged
Reimagined by Robert Eggers, the classic horror film is a shadow of its former self.
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Paul Schrader’s Canadian Clichés
His Sixties nostalgia is misplaced, on draft-dodging and much else.
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The Return of the Gladiator
Ridley Scott’s sequel tries to revive the historical epic—with mixed results.
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