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Essential Films

Essential Films: Bridge of Spies

By Kent Jones
December 21, 2015
Armed only with quiet conviction and shrewd calculation, an American everyman becomes a man of action in Steven Spielberg’s intricate Cold War drama

Essential Films: Mad Max: Fury Road

By Violet Lucca
December 14, 2015
Built for speed and meticulously crafted, George Miller’s postapocalyptic road movie pulls out all the stops

Review: Carol

By Amy Taubin
November 19, 2015
Women in love: Todd Haynes finds his voice in this slow-burn adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's taboo-breaking novel

Essential Films: Brooklyn

By Farran Smith Nehme
January 6, 2015
An Irish woman in the New World must choose her destiny in John Crowley’s big-hearted adaptation