Crime
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Cloud
After a character begs for his life in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s excellent “Cloud,” another man says, “Too late to live now.”…
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Strange Harvest
Writer/director Stuart Ortiz’s “Strange Harvest” packages a horror show in mockumentary threads. Following the case of a serial killer dubbed…
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Sovereign
Men like Jerry Kane (Nick Offerman), rural citizens who have twisted common laws to serve their own reality, were once…
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To a Land Unknown
This somber, sometimes frankly grueling movie opens with a quote from the cultural critic and historian Edward Said: “In a…
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Barron’s Cove
“Barron’s Cove” is a pulpy thriller awkwardly tied to a soapy story of bad dads and the wreckage they leave…
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Highest 2 Lowest
At 68 years of age, Spike Lee has lived through several phases of his career. There was his incredible, nearly…
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Dead Mail
A horror film set in the 1980s with a synthesizer score is nothing new. But “Dead Mail,” the second feature…
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Salvable
Bjorn Franklin and Johnny Marchetta’s melancholy boxing drama “Salvable” hits many of the familiar sports movie beats but manages a…
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Neighborhood Watch
The question “Did I really see what I thought I saw?” has been potent fuel for thrillers since well before…
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House of Games
This review was originally published on October 16, 1987. This movie is awake. I have seen so many films that…
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