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‘The Dead Don’t Die’ Confronts Climate Change with Deadpan Whimsicality

‘The Dead Don’t Die’ Confronts Climate Change with Deadpan Whimsicality

With The Dead Don't Die, Jim Jarmusch deliberately deprives his latest film of the propulsive terrors innate to most zombie films, instead using the genre to matter-of-factly rhapsodize about consumer culture and the inevitability of the apocalypse.

Framing White Nationalism in Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’

‘Boy Erased’ Is an Easy-to-Swallow Capsule of Sexual Repression

‘Boy Erased’ Is an Easy-to-Swallow Capsule of Sexual Repression

Director Joel Edgerton's well-intentioned drama about gay conversion therapy fails to deliver any new insight or even a good cry.

All the Right Intentions Can’t Bring ‘Boy Erased’ to Life

All the Right Intentions Can’t Bring ‘Boy Erased’ to Life

The tragedy of conversion therapy is confronted in Boy Erased, a well-meaning but perfectly conventional message movie.

TIFF 2018: ‘Greta’

TIFF 2018: ‘Greta’

Neil Jordan's latest thriller, Greta, doesn't make sense -- but it's a wild ride.

Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Is a Provocative, Entertaining Mess

Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Is a Provocative, Entertaining Mess

The new Spike Lee Joint is irreverent and challenging, but it fails to rival contemporary social powerhouses like Sorry to Bother You and Blindspotting.

‘The American’ Is a Thoughtful, Deceptively Spare Work Rife with Political Intrigues