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6/9/23
Indiscreet is Lost in the 1950s
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INDISCREET (1958) Directed by Stanley Donen Warner Brothers, 100 minutes, not rated. ★ It would be safe...
6/7/23
Shrines of Gaiety a Complex Mystery
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SHRINES OF GAIETY (2022) By Kate Atkinson Doubleday, 397 pages. ★★★★ Shrines of Gaiety is fiction, but ...
6/5/23
Silence is Golden: Buster Keaton, Rudolph Valentino & Gloria Swanson
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Is silence golden? For the early days of cinema, the answer is decidedly yes. It might strike modern movie-goers as od...
6/2/23
Now is Not the Time to Panic: What Sticks from Adolescence
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NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO PANIC (2022) By Kevin Wilson Ecco/HarperCollins, 248 pages. ★★★★ Sociologists te...
5/31/23
Three Documentaries That Could Have Been Better
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Documentaries are often a problematic film genre. They are didactic by nature, not “movies” whose major purpose is ...
5/29/23
All the Pretty Horses a Fine Anti-Western
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ALL THE PRETTY HORSES (1992) By Cormac McCarthy Knopf, 302 pages. ★★★★ I’ve heard good things about the t...
5/26/23
Less is Lost a Disappointing Sequel
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LESS IS LOST (2022) By Sean Greer Little, Brown & Company ★★ I really liked Book 1 of this series, ...
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