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Clint Eastwood’s Miracle-on-the-Hudson Biopic, Sully, Bypasses the Brouhaha
Keeping the action to a mere six minutes, this unadorned film is still a testament to human grit.
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Clyde Petersen’s ‘Torrey Pines’ Is a Fascinating Work of Ambient Animation
The Seattle animator’s debut feature-length film is trippy, hilarious, and strangely meditative.
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The Movie Madness of ‘The Light Between Oceans’ Literally Froths at the Mouth
Of mucus and melodrama.
Film
As a Film, Barack and Michelle’s First Date Suffers From Its Foretold Fate
‘Southside With You’ is an interesting, but not necessarily compelling, take on the biopic form.
Film
Herzog Logs On in ‘Lo and Behold,’ a Philosophical Treatise on the Internet Age
One of his many stops in the film is an Internet-addiction rehab center here in Washington.
Arts & Culture
Refreshingly, ‘Our Little Sister’ Does Drama Without Villains
In this film, everybody’s basically all right.
Arts & Culture
‘Don’t Think Twice’ Examines the Tensions and Trials of Making It in Improv
Honest but not maudlin, this movie has a few hard feelings and one thrown punch.
Arts & Culture
Bad Moms Is Bad
This year has seen a slew of great femme-driven comedies, but this isn’t one.
Arts & Culture
In ‘Café Society,’ Woody Allen Can’t Find a Pulse
With his pretty new film, the director delivers some sharp jokes, but never gets into a groove.
Arts & Culture
Viggo Mortensen Gets Comfortable in ‘Captain Fantastic’
But the Matt Ross film still manages to chafe some.
Arts & Culture
Finding the Good in Bad Movies
It’s about the crowd, not the quality, at Seattle’s bad-movie screenings.
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Visually and Sonically, ‘The Fits’ Is a Wonderfully Weird Debut
After a misfit 11-year-old joins a dance team, her peers succumb to mysterious seizures.
Film
The BFG’s CGI Is a Test Case for Digital Moviemaking Exhaustion
There’s a warm heart under the digital exterior, one that makes us long for rubber sharks.
Film
‘De Palma’ Is an Uncritical but Robust Look at a Filmmaking Great
The film underscores De Palma’s keen, sometimes lurid grasp of what cinema is.
Arts & Culture
The Other Side Is a Harrowing Journey Through the Ravages of Rural Louisiana
“I acknowledge this film’s power, and still feel uneasy about it.”
Arts & Culture
Selections for the Fourth Week of the Seattle International Film Festival
Young Obama in love, Viggo Mortensen’s post-hippie fantasy, and more.
Arts & Culture
The Screwy Screwball of Maggie’s Plan
The comedy in Maggie’s Plan is on-again, off-again.
Arts & Culture
‘Weiner’ Reveals a Politician Unable to Turn His Hubris, or the Cameras, Off
Filmmakers Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg capture the cringeworthy mayoral run of shamed former congressman Anthony Weiner.
Arts & Culture
Selections for the Third Week of the Seattle International Film Festival
Megan Griffiths’ newest, South American noir, Latvian absurdism, and more.
Arts & Culture
‘The Lobster’ Is the Perfect Picture of Peculiarity
Colin Farrell comes out of his shell in Yorgos Lanthimos’s dark, odd English-language debut.