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The Coen Brothers’ ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ Is American Myth in Vignette
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The Coen Brothers’ ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ Is American Myth in Vignette

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 / 19 November 2018

In the Coen Brothers' The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, there's something altogether new about having revisionist western ideas filtered through their rich sense of character, black comedy, and their penetrating awareness of humanity's fatal imperfections.

Paul Dano’s ‘Wildlife’ Sears with the Drama of a Family’s Emotional Upheaval
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Paul Dano’s ‘Wildlife’ Sears with the Drama of a Family’s Emotional Upheaval

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 / 12 November 2018

An early scene of a raging forest fire becomes the overarching metaphor for Paul Dano's Wildlife, as a young man stands in the path of a different kind of destructive force.

In ‘The Big Sick’ and Other Films, Zoe Kazan Evolves the Rom-Com From Within
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In ‘The Big Sick’ and Other Films, Zoe Kazan Evolves the Rom-Com From Within

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 / 7 July 2017
In a film world where the old-school romantic comedy scarcely exists, Zoe Kazan's recent entries to the genre stand as tests of empathy and feminism.