Powerful awards season contenders ‘Minari’ and ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ are moving tributes to less-visible American experiences.
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“Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa”
After a three-season-long TV series on MTV and three feature films, it’s a safe bet that by now you probably know whether or not you fall within the target demographic for a “Jackass” movie. The franchise’s latest, “Bad Grandpa,” finds the crew experimenting with the addition of an actual narrative to the formula of stupid […]
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“After Tiller”
In 2009, Dr. George Tiller was murdered, gunned down while in church by an anti-abortion extremist angered by the fact that Tiller performed late-term abortions at his clinic. Four years later, Martha Shane and Lana Wilson’s empathetic and deeply humane documentary, “After Tiller,” examines the impact that his death has had on the debate over […]
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“White House Down”
The appearance of “White House Down,” a thriller about a terrorist attack on the White House only a short time after “Olympus Has Fallen,” a thriller about a terrorist attack on the White House, should inspire more commentary than the obvious remarks about coincidence. The movies, after all, are the creation of the American film […]
