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The Big Screen
Short Take: Corpus Christi
By
Justin Stewart
March 10, 2020
Director Jan Komasa’s often death-dominated country priest tale is smartly flecked with comedy
The Big Screen: Never Rarely Sometimes Always
By
Sheila O'Malley
March 9, 2020
Director Eliza Hittman’s feeling for adolescence is extremely intuitive, and she is not tempted by melodrama or polemic
The Big Screen: EMMA.
By
Phoebe Chen
March 3, 2020
In Autumn de Wilde’s debut, landscapes flatten into Gainsborough pastorals in a simulation of Regency England
The Big Screen: The Traitor
By
Molly Haskell
January 28, 2020
Marco Bellocchio’s Sicilian saga unfolds under the looming shadow of mortality, of time running out for aging kingpins, and of debts coming due
The Big Screen: The Assistant
By
Devika Girish
January 16, 2020
In her harrowing new feature, Kitty Green details the lives of low-level Hollywood workers and the webs of power and silence they’re often caught in
The Big Screen: 1917
By
Nick Pinkerton
January 7, 2020
Technical brio cannot redeem all that is callow and crass in Sam Mendes’s “single-take” WWI epic
The Big Screen: A Hidden Life
By
Sheila O'Malley
December 9, 2019
Terrence Malick’s latest is a meditation on the nature of faith, of belief in God even (or especially) in a lunatic world
The Big Screen: Little Joe
By
Yonca Talu
December 5, 2019
The Big Screen: Queen & Slim
By
Candice Frederick
November 27, 2019
Melina Matsoukas’s film is a surprisingly tender tale about two lovers driven toward each other after a fateful police encounter
The Big Screen: The Report
By
Sukhdev Sandhu
November 19, 2019
For a political thriller,
The Report
is more sad than revelatory, more melancholy than cathartic
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