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Office life -- that dismal existence parceled out in claustrophobic work cubes where desperate employees struggle to one-up each other and demonstrate their mettle to casually cruel bosses who often couldn't care less -- can be soul-crushing, as many know. And so, lives lived in the fluorescent glare of company offices have provided dramatic ...Read more

There are about five minutes in "Sanctuary" in which nothing really strange happens. They come right at the beginning. We see a classy blonde knocking on the door of a luxury hotel suite and then a guy opening up and inviting her in. He brings out a bottle and we wonder if there's some sort of kicky sex romp in the offing. In any other movie, ...Read more

Margaret Simon is 11 years old and she's living in hell. Well, actually she's living in suburban New Jersey. But when you're on the cusp of womanhood and awaiting the arrival of certain physical signifiers of which there have so far been no signs at all, Margaret is here to tell you she's living in hell.

"Are You There, God? It's Me, ...Read more

Little Richard -- or the Great Little Richard, to give him his full title -- really was everything, or close to it. As we see in the exhilarating new documentary that takes off from this idea -- "Little Richard: I Am Everything" -- the late star lit up several worlds over the course of his 87 years. Born black and handicapped (one of his legs ...Read more

It's not easy being Carl Nargle. Sure, he's the most famous painter in Vermont. But that's entirely because of an art-instruction show he hosts called "The Joy of Painting," which has been beaming out of the Burlington PBS station for 22 years. The provincial stardom this show has brought him has been richly fulfilling, especially on the carnal ...Read more

In the wake of "John Wick: Chapter 4," is anybody ready for a kinder, gentler sort of movie? Oh. OK. Well, there are two such unanticipated films upon us anyway. One is an unabashedly teary family drama about grief and drug addiction; the other concerns the near-50-year struggle to legalize pinball machines in New York City. In neither of these ...Read more

William Shakespeare, the noted playwright and lying knave, gets a bit of comeuppance in "The Lost King," a movie that seeks to rescue Richard III, the last of the Plantagenet monarchs, from 400 years of bad-mouthing in one of Shakespeare's most famous plays. According to the Bard's "Richard III," which was written around 1593, the titular king ...Read more

"All Quiet on the Western Front"

"Avatar: The Way of Water"

"The Banshees of Inisherin"

"Elvis"

"Everything Everywhere All at Once"

"The Fabelmans"

"Tar"

"Top Gun: Maverick"

"Triangle of Sadness"

"Women Talking"

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BEST DIRECTOR

Martin McDonagh -- "The Banshees of Inisherin"

Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert -- "Everything ...Read more

It's been a while since anyone went to the trouble of making a James Bond knockoff, but here comes Guy Ritchie to take a fresh whack at it. Back in the mid-1960s, after "Goldfinger" supercharged the nascent 007 franchise, the movie landscape swarmed with Bond rips. They ranged from kind-of-entertaining (James Coburn's "Our Man Flint") to fairly ...Read more