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Film review: ‘Dunkirk’

Christopher Nolan is sometimes accused of being a cold filmmaker. It’s a side effect of his chilly aesthetic, although anyone who’s seen “Interstellar” knows Nolan can crank up the emotion when he wants to. But a lack of sentimentality serves him well in “Dunkirk,” the British director’s stunningly visceral World War II epic. The film […]

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Film Review: “Interstellar”

Any intrepid voyager through the vast space of science fiction should recognize the origins and context of Christopher Nolan’s new movie, “Interstellar.” The picture owes a great deal to all those contemporary doomsday flicks, along with some special debts to the “Star Trek” series and the landmark Stanley Kubrick film, “2001: A Space Odyssey.”  Its […]

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