Imagine what a world without diabetes would look like. A vast reduction in pain, suffering, needless death. And, as a bonus, a significant drop in pharmaceutical ads, probably.The goal is far away,...
Read moreWhat if the primary sensory goal of cooking were to stimulate the ears? What if you experienced a movie through your nostrils and taste buds, or felt it in your gut? These...
Read moreMore touching than terrifying, Scott Derrickson’s “Black Phone” is less a horror movie than a coming-of-age ghost story. In place of gouting gore and surging fright, this enjoyable adaptation of Joe Hill’s...
Read moreAmnesia strikes individuals at random in this absurdist dramedy from Greece, which may be too deadpan for its own good.
Read moreFor many American teenagers, college is the great undiscovered country. But in the romantic comedy, “Love & Gelato,” Lina (Susanna Skaggs) has just lost her beloved mother to cancer. Before she matriculates...
Read moreThat the international stars Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas had never spent more than two minutes together on the big screen is a surprising truth.They had a brief cameo together in Pedro...
Read more‘Disappearance at Clifton Hill’ (2020)Stream it on Netflix and Hulu.The director Albert Shin lays on the dread from the opening frames of this atmospheric Canadian thriller; something’s wrong here, even if we...
Read moreWhen the director Chris Sanders was starting work on “Lilo & Stitch,” the film’s visual development supervisor, Sue Nichols, made a comparison that startled him.“She did a side-by-side drawing of Mulan next...
Read moreIn 1949, the German philosopher Theodor Adorno famously declared that to write poetry after Auschwitz was “barbaric.” The question underpinning his statement remains ever relevant: In the face of wars, genocides and...
Read moreThis drama tells the hackneyed story of a lovelorn expatriate pulling himself together and dragging us around with him.
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