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In Mary Queen of Scots, Great Women Face Hard Truths About Wielding PowerDecember 11 at 7 a.m. by Alan Scherstuhl -
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Orson Welles’s Lost The Other Side of the Wind Has Genius — and Bloat He’d…October 31 at 6 a.m. by Odie Henderson -
As Fascism Rises, Schindler’s List Has Become Almost RadicalDecember 5 at 7 a.m. by Alan Scherstuhl -
Kore-eda’s Big-Hearted Shoplifters Toasts the Family That Steals TogetherDecember 4 at 7 a.m. by Bilge Ebiri -
Into the Spider-Verse Is the Best Superhero Movie Since The Dark KnightDecember 12 at 7 a.m. by Alan Scherstuhl
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It sets a host of alternative Spider-folk running amok in the New York City of Brooklyn teen Miles Morales, the mixed-race Spider-Man (his father is black and his mother Latinx) invented for the comics in 2011 by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara...
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The actresses share only one scene in the film, but Mary Queen of Scots sets them up in counterpoint, two divergent approaches to the question of how women who wield power can actually govern the men around them
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The writer-director shot Roma in chronological order, without showing the cast the script, unveiling it to the actors the same way it is for the audience, piece by piece, a chance to marinate in each moment as it plays out
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Today, I’m still awed by the film’s scope and scale, by its relentless energy and attention to detail, by its interest in faces and names and coats and belongings
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It’s the early 18th century, there’s a war on with France, and the persistently ill, somewhat childish Anne struggles both to assert her authority and to preserve her kingdom and her crown
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