Martin Scorsese’s Crime Films Ranked, From ‘Boxcar Bertha’ to ‘The Irishman’ (Photos)
Where does “The Irishman” stand in his bad-guys-doing-bad-things oeuvre?
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‘Antebellum’ Film Review: Janelle Monáe Stars in Uneasy Hybrid of Horror and Social Commentary
Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz’s movie has a touch of “12 Years a Slave,” a bit of “Django Unchained” and a central twist that’s worthy of a bad M. Night Shyamalan film
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‘City Hall’ Film Review: Frederick Wiseman Celebrates the Power of Civic Engagement
Toronto/NYFF 2020: Boston mayor Marty Walsh becomes a constant figure in this examination of the good that government can potentially do with community involvement
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‘Small Axe: Lovers Rock’ Review: Steve McQueen Would Like to Dance With You, in 1979
NYFF 2020: The director’s talent for plunging you into specific places and feelings is used, for a change, to go somewhere sexy and exhilarating
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‘The Secrets We Keep’ Film Review: Noomi Rapace Seeks Revenge in Familiar Thriller
This 1950s-set film totally rips off “Death and the Maiden,” but worse, it does nothing with the stolen goods
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‘New Order’ Film Review: A Political Horror Moment Gets Its Political Horror Movie
TIFF 2020: In Michel Franco’s latest, inequality begets chaos begets totalitarianism. Welcome to 2020.
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‘I Care a Lot’ Film Review: Rosamund Pike Is Very Bad, and That’s Pretty Good
Toronto Film Festival 2020: J Blakeson’s black comedy is a nasty little piece of provocation based around scenery-chewing badness from Pike and Peter Dinklage
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‘Notturno’ Film Review: Middle East Doc Finds Poetry in ‘Rubble and Darkness’
Toronto Film Festival 2020: Director Gianfranco Rosi’s film has elegance and a stillness that makes it one of the most meditative works you’ll ever see about war and strife
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‘Good Joe Bell’ Film Review: Mark Wahlberg Hits the Road to Make You Cry
Toronto Film Festival 2020: The drama directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green and written by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry is a quietly affecting road trip that gets to where it wants to go
