2015 has been over for almost two weeks now, and the big Oscar contenders have just about finished trickling into Rochester theaters. We’re still waiting on a few last-minute stragglers (“Anomalisa” opens next week and “45 Years” is due in February), but there’s more than enough to begin taking stock of the year that was. […]
Carol
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Film review: “Carol”
Director Todd Haynes knows his way around a melodrama, having worked within the confines of the genre in HBO’s “Mildred Pierce” miniseries as well as his exquisite Douglas Sirk pastiche, “Far From Heaven.” Haynes has a knack for recreating period dramas in a way that feels at once thoroughly modern and also like they might […]
