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VINTAGE SONGS: TIME MACHINES OR MOOD ENHANCERS

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I doubt that many J.K. Rowling fans watching Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them would recognize the voice of Ruth Etting…yet it’s that once-popular vocalist singing “You’re the Cream in my Coffee” who helps set the scene for…
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‘LION’ IS TEARFUL BUT FLAWED

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What do you call a movie that has a great first act and a moving finale but bogs down on the way to that conclusion? In this case, you call it Lion. I say this with regret, because the…
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‘ALLIED’: TRUE-BLUE HOLLYWOOD STORYTELLING

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I wish there was another way to say “old-fashioned” and not make it seem like a putdown. I faced this problem discussing Warren Beatty’s Rules Don’t Apply and I confront it again with Robert Zemeckis’ Allied. The challenge is…
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WARREN BEATTY PROVES THAT ‘RULES DON’T APPLY’

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Bravo to Warren Beatty for making an original and highly pleasing piece of entertainment. I’m tempted to call Rules Don’t Apply old-fashioned because it is so beautifully crafted—without those pore-counting macro-closeups of its stars that so many films rely…
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DISNEY’S ‘MOANA’: TRADITION RENEWED

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The Walt Disney Animation Studio has been on a winning streak, and Moana continues that momentum. Beautiful to behold, especially with its lush South Seas setting, it relies on certain tried-and-true Disney tropes…but with a strong, likable heroine (performed…
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MANCHESTER BY THE SEA: AS GOOD AS IT GETS

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The annual award-movie avalanche is upon us, a bombardment of advertising, screeners and emails–but at this juncture, Manchester by the Sea is the best film I’ve seen all year. When my wife and I viewed it at the Telluride Film…
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THE HAUNTING OF ‘NOCTURNAL ANIMALS’

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At  one time it was normal to tell a story from beginning to end; now, juggling a movie’s timeline has almost become a cliché. Yet in his second film, (following A Single Man) Tom Ford has not only mastered…
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