The Debut Review: Julianne Moore Finds Herself and Becomes Everyone Else’s Problem
A person can disappear without going anywhere. Mona Friedman has managed it rather efficiently. Her husband expects dinner, her nearly...
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Television has become very good at keeping successful stories alive past their natural stopping point. Marble Hall Murders finds a clever way to make that impulse part of the story itself. Alan Conway is dead. His detective, Atticus Pünd, had already been written toward an ending. The books still sell, so publishing wants another one. Susan Ryeland is pulled back into that world after returning to England and starting over as a freelance editor. Her latest assignment is Pünd's Last Case, written by Eliot Crace, grandson of celebrated children's author Miriam Crace. Eliot believes Miriam's death roughly twenty years earlier...

Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog treated the Ten Commandments less as laws than as traps for human certainty. Lee Chang-dong takes that impulse into contemporary South Korea, where covetousness cannot be separated from class. Wanting your neighbor’s house means something different when your own husband has lost his job, your family has been pushed toward the edge, and your neighbor’s second home comes with a private beach. That cultural relocation gives Possible Love much of its power. The film is dedicated to Dekalog 10 and shares its commandment, “Thou shalt not covet,” yet Lee and co-writer Oh Jung-mi build an entirely different...

A person can disappear without going anywhere. Mona Friedman has managed it rather efficiently. Her husband expects dinner, her nearly grown children barely register her presence, and the rhythms of suburban life have reduced her into a collection of useful functions. Then she auditions for a community-theater musical despite possessing almost no acting experience, and something embarrassingly small begins to feel existentially enormous. This sounds like the setup for an empowerment story. For a while, I thought Jesse Eisenberg was making one. I was wrong. Or only half right, which may be worse. Mona, played by Julianne Moore, auditions for...

The cleanest idea in The Fix arrives before its plot becomes crowded: Tucker and his team have spent years surrendering their identities to institutions that can erase them with a signature. Guy Moshe stages that idea through a disastrous extraction during the American withdrawal from Afghanistan. CIA handler Larry (Liam Neeson) has ignored orders and sent Tucker (Zachary Levi) and his unit after a local informant they refuse to abandon. Taliban fighters reach him first. Bullets take over. Moshe understands the brutal geometry of this sequence. Tucker's squad fires across distance rather than charging through conveniently arranged corridors, Clay (Quincy...

Antonio has spent years turning the distance between Naples and Milan into emotional architecture. His literary career, cultivated apartment, wife, and children all seem arranged around one simple fact: Angela is elsewhere. Then his mother arrives for Christmas Eve carrying food, cigarettes, grievances, and a live capon meant for dinner. The apartment immediately feels smaller. Adapted from Antonio Franchini’s autobiographical novel, The Fire Within You compresses years of family damage into one evening. Edoardo De Angelis gives that compression a nervous pulse. Angela attacks Antonio’s work, Benedetta’s cooking, Andrea’s gender identity and ballet, Valentina’s vegetarianism, Paola’s choices, absent Enrica, even...

Nine years have transformed Baek Ki-tae from an ambitious intelligence operative into exactly the kind of man authoritarian systems are designed to reward. By 1979, he is deputy director of the KCIA, running a meth operation on the side and still maintaining the wonderfully deranged conviction that refusing to sell drugs inside South Korea qualifies as patriotism. That contradiction gives Season 2 its sharpest political idea. Ki-tae does not regard himself as someone exploiting the state. He sees himself as one of its competent servants, which makes Hyun Bin’s restraint especially effective. When Chang-bae steals from him, Ki-tae settles the...
A person can disappear without going anywhere. Mona Friedman has managed it rather efficiently. Her husband expects dinner, her nearly...
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Read moreDetails"Avengers: Doomsday" has already generated more than $50 million in domestic ticket pre-sales, with over three months still remaining before the film opens in theaters. Disney Chief Financial Officer Hugh Johnston disclosed the figure Wednesday at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference, calling the early demand a sign of...
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Read moreTelevision has become very good at keeping successful stories alive past their natural stopping point. Marble Hall Murders finds a clever way to make that impulse part of the story...
Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog treated the Ten Commandments less as laws than as traps for human certainty. Lee Chang-dong takes that impulse into contemporary South Korea, where covetousness cannot be separated...
A person can disappear without going anywhere. Mona Friedman has managed it rather efficiently. Her husband expects dinner, her nearly grown children barely register her presence, and the rhythms of...
The cleanest idea in The Fix arrives before its plot becomes crowded: Tucker and his team have spent years surrendering their identities to institutions that can erase them with a...
Antonio has spent years turning the distance between Naples and Milan into emotional architecture. His literary career, cultivated apartment, wife, and children all seem arranged around one simple fact: Angela...
Nine years have transformed Baek Ki-tae from an ambitious intelligence operative into exactly the kind of man authoritarian systems are designed to reward. By 1979, he is deputy director of...
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