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The work of photographer Vivian Maier is on a fast-track to critical respect and widespread popularity as a social media sensation, but almost no one knew of it until seven years ago, and the few […]
Film buffs who like to include the bad as well as the beautiful among their treasures may want to revisit, or see for the first time, Anaconda. This superlatively tawdry, low-rent piece of dreck from […]
Shoot to kill pilot and MPs dauntedWhen girl sets up stall next to most wanted Tony Blair is not a liar. His decision to take Britain to war in Iraq was not based on back-of-a-fag-packet […]
“Belle” is good, old-fashioned filmmaking—its story laid out in neat, straightforward lines, its production values handsome, and its cast so engaging that they bring to life what might have been a fairly static period costume […]