“The Phantom of the Open” induces pleasant feelings the old-fashioned way, by earning them with stylish comedy.
Glenn McDonald
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This Week May Be Your Only Chance to See the Elusive Indie Film ‘Memoria’ in North Carolina
‘Memoria’ is being rolled out like a traveling art exhibition, playing in limited theaters across North America week to week. The film has the feeling of an event, a destination.
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Director Roger Michell’s Last Film, ‘The Duke,’ Is a Charming Caper About a Legendary 1961 Art Heist
The Duke is a throwback kind of movie—an old-fashioned crowd-pleaser with a quietly brilliant script and great lead performances from old pros Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren.
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Ten Films to Catch at This Year’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
This year’s festival, which runs April 7-10, features 37 titles from 18 countries—22 feature films and 15 shorts.
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In Its Search for Historical Truth, Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Parallel Mothers’ Is Lush with Twists, Curves, and Swerves
This is top-shelf filmmaking but again, those colors! Pedro Almodóvar clearly lives in a different world than the rest of us poor bastards.
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‘The French Dispatch’ Is Stylish and Easy to Like. But Is it Easy to Love?
The film is jammed with enormously appealing performers, but they’re caught in the exquisite clockwork gears of Anderson’s brain.
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Scary Movies for the Discerning Halloween Enthusiast
Seven relatively below-the-radar scary movies that do interesting things with the genre.
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Fall Arts Preview 2021: Ten Films to Get Excited About
Wes Anderson riffs on The New Yorker, ‘Dune’ gets the blockbuster treatment, Jay-Z produces a Black cowboy epic, and more.
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A New Documentary Chronicles the Incredible Story of How a $1,175 Painting Was Later Sold for $450 Million
‘The Lost Leonardo’ one of the most flat-out fascinating documentary films you’ll ever see.
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In ‘The Night House,’ a Grieving Widow Stumbles Upon Some Seriously Unsettling Blueprints
The Rebecca Hall thriller gives “haunted house” a new meaning.