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The Spell ‘Doctor Strange’ Is Missing: Sam Raimi’s Macabre Vision
Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is sitting in a Manhattan coffee shop with the woman he’s loved since the fourth grade,…
In Echo of Soviet Era, Russia’s Movie Theaters Turn to Pirate Screenings
Since the invasion of Ukraine, Hollywood’s biggest studios have stopped releasing movies in Russia, and Netflix has ceased service there.…
‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ Review: Being Nicolas Cage
Those eyes, that hair, those choppers and, oh, that purring, whining adenoidal voice, which can change pitch and intensity midsentence…
Kim’s Video Is Back. What Even Is a Video Store in 2022?
One day in December, down escalators that led away from the sun and into the bowels of a skyscraper just…
‘Basic Instinct’ at 30: A Time Capsule That Can Still Offend
Curran brings her in for questioning, resulting in the film’s most famous (and most frequently parodied) sequence: an interrogation in…
‘The Batman’ Review: Who’ll Stop the Wayne?
The darkness in “The Batman” is pervasive and literal. Gotham City in the week after Halloween, when this long chapter…