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The Last Red Envelope, Or: Netflix DVDs' long goodbye
Sure, it time was long past. But the Netflix DVD era was a very important one for a whole generation of cineastes.
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'The Saint of Second Chances' is a moving tale of Mike Veeck's baseball redemption
In Netflix's new documentary, the scion and baseball impresario tells his only-in-America story, from his father to his children, and from Disco…
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After 30 years, 'Dazed and Confused' is still all right, all right, all right
Richard Linklater's one-crazy-night-in-1976 tale from 1993 has moved beyond its stoner cult film roots to a deserved place in the canon.
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Interview: 'Kelce' director and producer Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce
The Philadelphia-based duo on their hit Prime Video documentary about NFL center Jason Kelce, how they worked with NFL Films, and what they think their…
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Fin: 'Stop Making Sense', start writing about Taylor Swift, and remembering a Philadelphia movie gone wrong
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'A Haunting in Venice' is fine but flawed
The latest in Kenneth Branagh's series of Agatha Christie adaptations has its moments, but falls victim to some dubious filmmaking techniques
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With 'Burn After Reading', the Coen brothers went to Washington
15 years ago, the Coens made a successful dark comedy about the periphery of DC absurdity.
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'Kelce' and the twilight of the NFL's renaissance man
The Prime Video film about the Eagles' veteran center is the year's best sports documentary
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The SS Ben Hecht, by Stephen Silver
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