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What Hollywood Can Learn About Documentary Adaptation From ‘Our Brand Is Crisis’
The opening credits of David Gordon Green’s Our Brand Is Crisis include the following attribution: “Suggested by the documentary by Rachel Boynton.” At first glance, it sounds a little shady, a hem-haw...
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There’s a Great Holiday Comedy Buried Inside the Messy ‘Night Before’
Sometimes a movie’s trailers tell you less about what a movie is than what its studio wants it to be. Take, as the most recent example, Jonathan Levine’s The Night Before, which comes advertised as a...
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Here’s Your First Trailer for ‘Captain America: Civil War’
In the mid-1940s, as their cash cow monster-fronted horror movies were starting to wane, Universal Pictures embarked on a series of what became known as “Monster Rally” movies—throwing any number of...
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‘Triple 9’ Is a Solid, Workmanlike Genre Exercise — And That’s Good Enough
You might think there’s something wrong with Triple 9, considering how its low-profile release – late February, muted ads, minimal buzz – seems at odds with its high-wattage cast: Casey Affleck, Kate...
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‘Captain America: Civil War’ and the State of the Superhero Union
Had they spent their days in deep prayer and meditation and their nights sacrificing the blood of virgin animals to the god Eris, Captain America: Civil War directors Joe and Anthony Russo couldn’t...
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The 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Triple 9’ and Triple De Palma
For the second week in a row, the selection of new movies on disc is mighty slim (what can you do, these are late-winter theatrical releases). But there are still plenty of options; to prep for the...
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Kathryn Bigelow’s John Boyega-Starring Film About the 1967 Detroit Riot Gets...
Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s latest collaborative revisitation of harrowing history — following their chilling depictions of American interventions in the Middle East in The Hurt Locker and Zero...
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Flavorwire’s Reasonable, Low-Expectation Summer Movie Preview
It’s the first Friday of May, and you know what that means: there’s a new Marvel movie in theaters. And you know what that means: summer movie season has officially begun. And holy shit, it’s gonna be...
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Flavorwire’s Guide to Indie Movies You Need to See in August
August is traditionally one of the deader months in mainstream movie-going – studios tend to schedule their big summer blockbusters early in the season, before explosion-and-sequel fatigue sets in,...
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Who Is Allowed To Tell the Story of ‘Detroit’?
Late last week, Megan Ellison, producer of the motion picture Detroit and head of its distributor Annapurna Pictures, tweeted at the president. It came in the fall-out of his skin-crawling speech to...
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