In my 32 year lifetime, has anyone converted more adolescent disciples to the religion of Musicals than Idina Menzel?
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Category: Remember All the Movies, Terry, We’d Go See
Starring Staring
Noémie Merlant is becoming cinema’s foremost starer.
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Something in the Nope
How would 21st century cash-strapped Americans respond if they encountered the supernatural?
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Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself
My name is critique, oh!
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Culpability
Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge is at least the third example in six months of artists using their latest work to stage explicit self-castigations of their own past work.
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Voodoo, Indeed
When playing a celebrity, actors can don one of three general approaches:
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Hysteriacal
Terrifier 2 has Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp written all over it.
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All Expressions on the Artistic Front
Two straight days of calling attention to seemingly throwaway moments in art that nevertheless demonstrate the practical alchemy of the relationship between audience and art.
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Scowl
“Why is this movie talking down to me?” is a criticism usually lobbed at “artsy-fartsy” cinema.
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Roles Roles Roles
Memory is slippery.
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