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With 13 nominations, Trans musical "Emilia Pérez" makes Oscar history — but should it have?
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With 13 nominations, Trans musical "Emilia Pérez" makes Oscar history — but should it have?

There's plenty to talk about regarding the 97th annual Academy Award nominations, most of it the usual hullabaloo over perceived surprises (Jeremy Strong for Best Supporting Actor! Coralie Fargeat for Best Director! Nickel Boys and

Whannell's "Wolf Man": A familial tragedy of devolutionary body horror terror
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Whannell's "Wolf Man": A familial tragedy of devolutionary body horror terror

When his father is pronounced dead years after going missing in an Oregon forest, unemployed writer and stay-at-home dad Blake Lovell (Christopher Abbott) makes the trek back for the first time in 30 years, joined by his journalist wife

Love bites: Ten LGBTQ romantic interludes perfect for Valentine's Day date night
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Love bites: Ten LGBTQ romantic interludes perfect for Valentine's Day date night

As a film critic, I'm used to getting asked unanswerable questions, and I have stock answers for most of them. The most frequent query I receive, naturally, is what I think the best picture ever made is.

Best movies of 2024: I saw the cinema glow (and saw myself in the process)
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Best movies of 2024: I saw the cinema glow (and saw myself in the process)

There is an early moment in writer-director Jane Schoenbrun's I Saw the TV Glow that permanently burned itself into my psyche. Questioning seventh-grader Owen (Ian Foreman) is participating in one of those gym exercises where the entire class whips

Bland "Kraven" competently goes through the comic book antihero motions
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Bland "Kraven" competently goes through the comic book antihero motions

The good news about Sony's latest attempt to transform one of its Spider-Man rogue's gallery of villains, Kraven (the Hunter), into a viable cinematic antihero is that the finished film isn't that bad. The problem is, it's not that good either.

Creatively imaginative "Lady Like" bio drags Lady Camden into the spotlight
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Creatively imaginative "Lady Like" bio drags Lady Camden into the spotlight

The underdog documentary Lady Like makes several interesting creative choices throughout its brief 87-minute running time. This helps ground the biographical look at the life and times of RuPaul's Drag Race season 14 runner-up Lady Camden

Getting there together — chatting about Disney's Moana 2 with producer Christina Chen and actor Hualalai Chung
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Getting there together — chatting about Disney's Moana 2 with producer Christina Chen and actor Hualalai Chung

With the sequel's Thanksgiving holiday release on the horizon, I sat down with Moana 2 producer Christina Chen and actor Hualālai Chung on the Space Needle's observation deck to chat about the film.

Rambunctious Queer is an ejaculatory descent into the humanistic unknown
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Rambunctious Queer is an ejaculatory descent into the humanistic unknown

Be that as it may, I have not read Burroughs' unfinished, semiautobiographical Queer, published in 1985 but written between 1951 and 1953. After watching Luca Guadagnino's disquietingly rambunctious film adaptation, I feel compelled to read it.

Ambitiously magical Wicked: Part One defies cinematic gravity
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Ambitiously magical Wicked: Part One defies cinematic gravity

It's taken over two decades for the popular ? "You're gonna be pop-u-LAR!" ? Broadway musical sensation Wicked to transition from stage to screen.

Bob Guccione's "Caligula": Producer Thomas Negovan talks madness, maleness, and mandated male members
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Bob Guccione's "Caligula": Producer Thomas Negovan talks madness, maleness, and mandated male members

Masterminded by Penthouse doyen Bob Guccione, written by internationally renowned Gay scribe Gore Vidal, and directed by sexploitationist Tinto Brass, 1980's Caligula rapidly became the most expensive independent production in cinema history

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