Quentin Tarantino turns the Western into a violent, talkative revenge fantasy set against the brutal reality of American slavery.
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Modern Classics: ‘Django Unchained’ and Tarantino’s Cinema of Revenge
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‘Oh, Hi!’ Review: A Twisted Rom-Com About Love, Fear, and Misunderstanding
What starts as a carefree vacation spirals into an absurd, unsettling standoff over love, control, and emotional honesty. Starring Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman.
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‘The Rainmaker’ Review: A Legal Thriller Stripped of Its Bite
A rising young lawyer is fired from an elite firm and joins a scrappy ambulance chaser and her shady paralegal, only to face his former employer in court over a wrongful death case.
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‘The Damned’ Review: An Icy Descent into Folk Horror
When a remote fishing station lets shipwrecked sailors die, an ancient folk legend resurfaces, turning hunger, guilt, and isolation into a slow-burning nightmare.
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Modern Classics: The Fragile Poetry of Sofia Coppola’s ‘Lost in Translation’
The American filmmaker’s movie quickly became an instant classic, capturing the unlikely friendship that forms in Japan between a seasoned actor and a much younger woman. With Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson.
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‘Miracle: The Boys of ’80’ Review: An Upset That Shaped a Nation’s Imagination (Netflix)
A young hockey team defies the odds at the 1980 Olympics, turning a stunning upset into a lasting legend, told through new footage and firsthand testimony.
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’96 Minutes’ Review: Reviving a Classic Bomb-on-a-Train Premise (Netflix)
A bomb disposal expert traveling with his detective fiancée must defuse a bomb on a bullet train before time—and his past—catch up with him.
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‘Greenland 2: Migration’ Review: Gerard Butler Takes on the Apocalypse Once More
After surviving a comet that devastated Earth, a family is forced to flee their bunker refuge and cross a ruined Europe in search of a new home.
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Modern Classics: ‘Blackhat’ and the Cinema of Michael Mann
A jailed hacker is released to help track a global cyberattack that moves from China to the U.S., blurring the line between digital crime and physical violence.
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‘The Souffleur’ Review: Willem Dafoe Anchors Gastón Solnicki’s Vienna Reverie
Willem Dafoe plays the manager of a grand Viennese hotel whose job is suddenly at risk with the arrival of a new buyer: an Argentine enterpreneur.


