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During the difficult shoot for his excellent 1994 film Barcelona, director Whit Stillman found rare joy in a scene of young women dancing at a disco, and wondered: Why can’t this be a whole movie? The ...

Sofia Coppola’s hypnotic Lost in Translation should not work. Very little happens, the plot is slight, and even the instigating incident — the first meeting of Scarlett Johansson’s Charlotte and Bill ...

It’s become a cliche to call Die Hard a Christmas movie you didn’t realize was a Christmas movie. But another ’80s classic ...

One of the most gorgeously shot movies ever made, Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love isn’t so much a love story as an out-of-love story between two people — played by Tony Leung and (Maggie Cheung — ...

Anora, the Palme d'Or winning Sean Baker film about a stripper named Ani (Mikey Madison) pulled into a whirlwind relationship ...

When everyone else is scared to say something, South Park says it. It has gone after everyone in its nearly 30-year reign, and we love it — even when it makes fun of people and institutions we hold ...

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