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A Pitiless Heist Movie
The one thing you can’t do is look away from Benny and Josh Safdie’s acidly titled Good Time.
Stuart Klawans
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August 4, 2017
More Than Motown
Kathryn Bigelow’s instinct for the visceral overflows her chosen subject, making a mess of the themes in her new film Detroit.
Stuart Klawans
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August 3, 2017
The Missed Opportunities of ‘An Inconvenient Sequel’
Al Gore’s latest film draws climate change back into the political limelight, but fails to draw connections between environmental and economic justice.
Kate Aronoff
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July 21, 2017
A Summer of Special Effects
On one end of the scale, there’s the stroke of cinematic inspiration in A Ghost Story; on the other are CGI inventions like the astonishing Okja.
Stuart Klawans
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July 12, 2017
Meet the Syrian Activists Fighting ISIS—With Cameras
In Matthew Heineman’s City of Ghosts, freedom of the press is a matter of life or death.
Sarah Aziza
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July 1, 2017
The Manufactured Images of ‘The Reagan Show’
The new documentary film is both a valiant exposé and a victim of the president’s publicity machine.
Stuart Klawans
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June 9, 2017
Wonder Women
If you’re looking for a heroine at the movies this summer, you should look beyond the latest superhero story.
Stuart Klawans
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June 1, 2017
Letters From the June 19-26, 2017, Issue
McCarthyism: past or present?… Implausible deniability… Lessons from Carrier… An admiring bog… Electing the future (web-only)…
Our Readers
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May 12, 2017
Acts of Insolence
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is earnest in a way that’s ill-suited to a movie that pretends to razz the whole superhero business.
Stuart Klawans
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May 8, 2017
The Prisoner Firefighters Battling California’s Wildfires
Three clips from a new film exploring the seemingly ordinary landscapes touched by our prison system.
The Nation