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Buena Vista Social Club is a joyful documentary of what one participant accurately deems “a crucially important event in the tradition of Cuban music.” For anyone who knows and love the critically acclaimed and enormously […]
It spoils none of the charm of Florence Foster Jenkins to say that Meryl Streep, as Jenkins, has a line near the end of the film that many viewers will remember long after they leave […]
Four years ago a film other than Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane finally topped one of the most revered “Best Films of All Time” lists—the annual poll of 846 critics, programmers, academics, and distributors issued by […]
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is probably Pedro Almodovar’s most accessible film and it is certainly one of his funniest and most popular works. It is wilder and more comedic in tone […]