New Bruce Cockburn, Lizz Wright, Lone Bellow
If you act quickly, you can listen to three important new end-of-summer releases for free!
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I Don’t Want to Live In This World Anymore (2017)
Guest reviewer Daniel Melvill Jones reviews Macon Blair's directorial debut, the winner of this year‘s Sundance Grand Jury award.
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Arcade Fire Now
Arcade Fire's latest is lighter and more streamlined — the most danceable thing that they've done. They're making a whole career out of variations on "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For."
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Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
In Part Two of my Spider-Man focus, I zoom in on Spider-Man: Homecoming. How does it measure up to other Spidey films?
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Why I keep getting stuck in Spider-Man’s web
Spider-Man has always been the most interesting and compelling superhero for me — the only one whose movies I always want to see. Why? I think I finally figured it out.
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Maudie (2017)
Resembling Jeff Nichols's Loving and Martin Provost's Séraphine, Maudie is a magnificent film about the triumph of love over hardship and poverty in the lives of outcasts.
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Dunkirk (2017)
Nolan's latest is high on noise, chaos, and anxiety, and low on poetry. But it provides a necessary corrective to the dangerous machismo of most war films.
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A Ghost Story (2017)
David Lowery's second movie about a somewhat-invisible character is a lot more mysterious... perhaps to a fault.
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Don’t Think Twice (2016)
Improv comedy is a demanding art. Making a movie about an improv team — one that is both dramatic and funny — that's even more challenging. Mike Birbiglia succeeds!
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Looking Closer with Jeffrey Overstreet
(now the ears of my ears awake andnow the eyes of my eyes are opened)
– e. e. cummings, “i thank You God for most this amazing”