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Local & Repertory • Dear White People Justin Simien’s smart new college
Local & Repertory • Dear White People Justin Simien’s smart new college satire forthrightly addresses race, and it…
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Local & Repertory • Actress It doesn’t really matter if you remember
Local & Repertory • Actress It doesn’t really matter if you remember Brandy Burre from The Wire or…
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Local & Repertory • The Big Lebowski The Coen brothers’ 1998 stoner-noir
Local & Repertory • The Big Lebowski The Coen brothers’ 1998 stoner-noir is Raymond Chandler filtered through dirty…
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Local & Repertory • The Big Lebowski The Coen brothers’ 1998 stoner-noir
Local & Repertory • The Big Lebowski The Coen brothers’ 1998 stoner-noir is Raymond Chandler filtered through dirty…
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Local & Repertory • The Atomic Cafe Discussion follows the screening of
Local & Repertory • The Atomic Cafe Discussion follows the screening of this very influential 1982 doc, which…
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Local & Repertory • The Big Lebowski The Coen brothers’ 1998 stoner-noir
Local & Repertory • The Big Lebowski The Coen brothers’ 1998 stoner-noir is Raymond Chandler filtered through dirty…
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Local & Repertory The Atomic Cafe Discussion follows the screening of this
Local & Repertory The Atomic Cafe Discussion follows the screening of this very influential 1982 doc, which uses…
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Local & Repertory Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure This 1989 time-travel comedy
Local & Repertory Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure This 1989 time-travel comedy about two genial teenage ninnies struck…
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Local & Repertory American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs Discussion
Local & Repertory American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs Discussion follows the screening of a documentary…
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If you’ve been living under a rock, or just returned from vacation
If you’ve been living under a rock, or just returned from vacation in the Internet-free hermit kingdom of…
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In a filmgoing year that—turning my sourpuss-meter slightly to the right of
In a filmgoing year that—turning my sourpuss-meter slightly to the right of Robert Horton’s—was less mixed than outright…
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Writing a year-end movie wrap-up is a useful way of acknowledging quality,
Writing a year-end movie wrap-up is a useful way of acknowledging quality, but it’s also a handy method…
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Local & Repertory Home Alone Child actor Macaulay Culkin brutally tortures blameless
Local & Repertory Home Alone Child actor Macaulay Culkin brutally tortures blameless burglars Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern…
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No musician wants to forget the words they’re singing onstage, and one
No musician wants to forget the words they’re singing onstage, and one of the dirty little secrets to…
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Movie stars come from the unlikeliest places. Take the case of one
Movie stars come from the unlikeliest places. Take the case of one Mark Wahlberg, for example. In youth,…
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The crucial masterstroke of Into the Woods is that the fairy-tale happy
The crucial masterstroke of Into the Woods is that the fairy-tale happy ending comes halfway through the action.…
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The Imitation Game proves that a ripping true story can survive even
The Imitation Game proves that a ripping true story can survive even the Oscar-bait effect. This is a…
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Christmas is a time for kitsch, and holiday movies usually reward us
Christmas is a time for kitsch, and holiday movies usually reward us with the same sort of mass-produced…
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The greedy guy on a life raft who eats all the chocolate
The greedy guy on a life raft who eats all the chocolate bars is surely going to die.…