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Dec 2, 2025 — Even as he carries on winning awards, Jafar Panahi is sentenced to another year in prison.
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Apr 1, 2024 — The show may be “resolutely low-risk” overall, but for many, the standouts are film and video works.
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Dec 13, 2023 — Critics have come around on his turns in Barry Lyndon and The Driver, and toward the end, he started patching things up with his family.
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Oct 24, 2023 — The season brings Barbra Streisand’s memories, the “joyously vulgar” Burton and Taylor, and the story of Siskel and Ebert.
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May 31, 2023 — It’s not every year that so many critics are pleased with the juries’ choices.
Feb 9, 2021 — What does parallax mean? It is a term that English speakers are perpetually learning and always forgetting. Leopold Bloom, in Ulysses: “Parallax. I never exactly understood . . . Par it’s Greek: parallel, parallax.” In the technical sense, the word...
On the Channel
Nov 30, 2020 — Channel Calendars As the year draws to an end, we’re turning our gaze toward things to come, with an international, intergalactic program of Afrofuturist visions of Black creativity, resistance, and freedom. That’s just the beginning of our holiday bounty: we’ve...
Jun 23, 2020 — Late in Tokyo Olympiad, Kon Ichikawa’s thrillingly anomalous record of the 1964 Olympic Summer Games, the film documents one of the most taxing contests, the individual modern pentathlon, in a startling montage of still photographs, accompanied by stark sound effects....
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May 20, 2019 — Triple crosses follow double crosses in this slick crime thriller.
May 16, 2019 — All week long, writers have been reminding us that there was more to Doris Day than sweet sunshine.