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Jordan Harper’s award-winning debut novel, She Rides Shotgun, now a film starring Taron Egerton, is written in short, blunt sentences banging up…
Read More »After a character begs for his life in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s excellent “Cloud,” another man says, “Too late to live now.”…
Read More »Men like Jerry Kane (Nick Offerman), rural citizens who have twisted common laws to serve their own reality, were once…
Read More »This somber, sometimes frankly grueling movie opens with a quote from the cultural critic and historian Edward Said: “In a…
Read More »The locked-room mystery has been a staple of the thriller genre since time immemorial; there’s a perverse delight in throwing…
Read More »A waiter and a well-dressed party guest lock eyes. In an alley, she casually tells him her room number. After…
Read More »“40 Acres,” like most sci-fi media of the 2020s, is an imagining of our world, our society, after the ramifications…
Read More »“Heads of State” is a buddy movie. The buddies are the President of the United States, played by John Cena,…
Read More »The life of a late-career Liam Neeson character is often a tragic one: In one film or another, he’s a…
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