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David Byrne Channels the Weird and the Ordinary in 'True Stories'

As a piece of both cultural history and film history, David Byrne's True Stories takes its place alongside two other films from the mid-'80s that are also steeped in a surrealistic other-worldly place, Repo Man and Blue Velvet.

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Criterion Film Offerings: French Noir, Japanese Lovers, American Gangsters and Frames of Pure Serenity

Duvivier's Panique, Mizoguchi's A Story from Chikamatsu, Kiarostami's 24 Frames, and May's Mikey and Nicky are now available on Blu-ray from Criterion. Here's what you have to look forward to.

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Playing at Grown-ups: Don Siegel and Michael Caine Tilt at 'The Black Windmill'

Don Siegel's crime thriller The Black Windmill starring Michael Caine, now on Blu-ray via Kino Lorber, is a meta-commentary on adults behaving badly.

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Pawel Pawlikowski's 'Cold War' Is a Lustrous, Slyly Subversive Melodrama

Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski's Cold War, a sweeping romance, is equally indebted to grand spectacle and the practical compromises of wartime Europe.

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Slavery, Piracy, and Shirtless Men in Silent Film, 'Old Ironsides'

Kino Lorber's release of Old Ironsides offers derring-do with cannons firing and masts breaking off and hundreds of extras swarming all over each other's ships.

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono: Imagine / Gimme Some Truth

Remastered video documents form part of the massive Imagine reissue program, and reveal a couple who were struggling to find the balance between the cool avant-garde and the comfortingly domestic.

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Nicole Kidman Wreaks Havoc in Karyn Kusama’s Disorienting 'Destroyer'

The most revolutionary thing Kusama's Destroyer isn't the antiheroism, but its genuine search for the goodness of a woman who's made objectively bad decisions.

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'Vice', Dick Cheney, and the Satisfaction of the Deed Itself

Adam McKay's gonzo Dick Cheney biopic satire, Vice, won't be compared to Shakespeare, but it shares the Bard's disinterest in supervillains' motivations.

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Evil Is Art, Murder Is Art, Torture Is Art: On Lars von Trier's 'The House that Jack Built'

It isn't entirely irredeemable, but The House that Jack Built's familiar gimmicks say much more about Lars von Trier as a brand than as a provocateur or artist.

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'If Beale Street Could Talk' Is an Intimate Rendering of Black Love in the Face of Hatred

Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk is a near-perfect success both as a grand statement of solidarity and as a gorgeously wrought, long-overdue story of black life and black love.

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Barry Jenkins' 'If Beal Street Could Talk' Is Unapologetically Romantic

Unlike justice, love has not abandoned the protagonists in Barry Jenkins' adaptation of James Baldwin's' If Beale Street Could Talk.

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'Mary Poppins Returns' Is Practically Passable, in Every Way

Even with few truly catchy numbers and a cumbersome plot, Mary Poppins Returns has enough bright-eyed optimism to almost escape the shadow of the toe-tapping original.

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'Roma' Is Painfully Beautiful

Alfonso Cuarón's edgily political black-and-white epic of a family in 1970s Mexico City is as masterfully choreographed as Children of Men but more personally intimate.

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Mary Pickford: Hollywood's Most Powerful Waif

Well into her 30s, silent film star Mary Pickford was the waif-iest waif in film history, and the number of convincing variations she wrung on this theme is remarkable.

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'Mortal Engines' Grinds Down the Post-apocalyptic Genre

Christian Rivers' directorial debut, Mortal Engines, is that lump of coal in your holiday movie stocking.

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Silent Film 'You Never Know Women' Makes the Most of Light and Shadow

William Welllman has made elegant use of shadows to convey serious issues before, and uses them in silent film You Never Know Women with a flourish.

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