I find that the opening scene of The Secret Agent is a pretty good lens into the overall experience of watching the film.
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The Secret Agent (2025)
Author: Dan Stalcup
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Nouvelle Vague (2025)
Among the great and influential directors of the past thirty years, Richard Linklater is the one with the least neurosis.
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Mary Poppins (1964)
There is a version of this review where I try to explain, analytically, why Mary Poppins works.
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Bugonia (2025)
I’ll be honest: I’ve spent the better part of a decade dodging Yorgos Lanthimos movies.
Happy almost-spring, friends.
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Rear Window (1954)
Cinema is twenty-four pictures per second with synchronized sound, and somehow it builds vast universes inside our imaginations.
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42nd Street (1933)
Sometimes movies of great historical import, turning points in the development of the medium, are tough to sit through.
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The Last Five Years (2014)
In the late ‘90s, musical playwright Jason Robert Brown married an actress named Terri O’Neill.
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The Housemaid (2025)
It might just be my undying love for Freaks and Geeks, but I’ll basically always show up for a Paul Feig joint
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The Princess Bride (1987)
Rob Reiner and William Goldman baked a little magic trick into The Princess Bride that I don’t think I fully appreciated as a kid