There is a paradox at the heart of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s empire that Joel Schumacher’s 2004 Phantom of the Opera makes impossible to ignore
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Phantom of the Opera (2004)
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Cats (2019)
There’s a case to be made that the true line of demarcation between the before-times and the after-times is not March 2020, when the world shut down as COVID spread and quarantine began, but a few months earlier, when Cats arrived in theaters.
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Not Just a Goof (2024)
You’re not going to get an unbiased review from me on this one.
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Train Dreams (2025)
Train Dreams tells the story of a man’s eighty years of life in a hundred minutes.
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The Secret Agent (2025)
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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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.
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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.