Jason Bailey

Jason Bailey is a graduate of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He is the author of books on Quentin Tarantino, Woody Allen, and Richard Pryor. Jason's writing has also appeared at 'The Atlantic,' 'Slate,' 'Salon,' and 'The Dissolve,' among others. He lives in New York with his wife Rebekah, his daughter Lucy, and their two cats.
15 Great 2019 Movies You Can Watch Right Now
Last week, we ran our list of the 25 best movies of the year (and it’s right here, ICYMI), and it was a tough list to make – this year offered even more great films than usual, particularly in the indie and foreign space. So, in lieu of our…
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The 15 Best Holiday Movies to Stream This Week (Plus ‘The Two Popes’)
Unsurprisingly, since the customary Tuesday release day falls on Christmas Eve this year, there’s not much on the new release shelf; if you’re buying something, they figure, you’ve already bought it. So instead, let’s seize upon the season, and…
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Let's Talk About the Grossest Scene in 'Bombshell'
Bombshell, Jay Roach’s dramatization of the fall of Fox News head Roger Ailes, went into wide release last weekend, propelled by a good early showing (at least for its actors) in the year-end awards: two Golden Globe nominations (Charlize Theron for…
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The Top 25 Movies of 2019
I’ve been making this list for this site for eight years now (look it up!) and I can’t recall it ever being harder to make – or easier. It was harder in the sense that 2019 was an incredibly strong year for new movies, especially for a soft touch…
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The 6 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Ad Astra,’ ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’
If there were any justice in this world, this week’s big 4K and Blu-ray release would’ve been one of the year’s biggest hits. Alas. Also this week: two terrific new indies (one foreign, one doc) and a forgotten ‘90s gem on disc, and a couple of…
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Back to Macao: Flavorwire's IFFAM 2019 Diary
Attending a film festival in Macao, China, isn’t really all that different than going to one in Park City or Toronto. The food is better, to be sure. And the filmmakers and stars stand awkwardly in front of the audience before the movie rather than…
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The 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,’ ‘Hustlers’
Not one, not two, but three of the year’s best movies hit disc or streaming this week, which would be exciting enough on its own. But we’ve also got a restored ‘80s gem, one of the great ‘70s dramas, a new documentary movie lovers will adore, and a…
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The 6 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Ready or Not,’ ‘The Report’
One of the year’s best movies pops up on Amazon Prime this week, and a delicious horror/action/comedy leads the new disc releases. Plus, a first-rate bio-doc, two new Criterion additions, and an always-rewatchable Best Picture winner returns to…
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Flavorwire's Guide to Movies You Need to See in December
The end of the year is upon us, prompting a real embarrassment of riches at the movies – as if there weren’t alreadytoo many great movies (The Irishman, Knives Out, Marriage Story, Honey Boy, The Report, etc.) to clear time out of your busy schedule…
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Flavorwire’s Ultimate Gift Guide for the Pop Culture Aficionado In Your Life
Thanksgiving week is upon us again, and you know what that means: it’s time to start thinking about some gift-giving. (Or maybe not! Things are tight all over, that’s undeniable, and if the holidays have always been overtly commercialized, they seem…
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The 6 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘The Irishman,’ ‘All About Eve’
You can tell the Thanksgiving holidays are upon us, for two reasons: 1) Netflix is unleashing its biggest movie to date, with a three-and-a-half-hour running time that’s perfect for post-Thanksgiving nothing-to-do time; and 2) several of our…
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'Knives Out' is a Giddily Entertaining Holiday Feast
Rian Johnson’s Knives Out opens with the image of a giant manor house. Strings surge loudly on the soundtrack; hounds run from the estate in slow-motion. This, folks, is how you open your movie – with big, broad, theatrical gestures, acknowledging…
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The 6 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Blinded By the Light,’ ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’
Three lightweight but undeniably engaging late-summer releases are out this week on disc and demand, along with a welcome Blu-ray release (and Criterion Collection blessing) for one of last year’s best. All that and a stylish crime film worth…
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What Disney+ Really Tells Us About Disney
And, like that, it’s all there. Tuesday brought the launch of Disney+, the cultural behemoth’s long-promised, much-hyped streaming service – delivering, well, most of the feature films, TV movies, and shows from the company’s decades-long reign.…
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The 9 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘The Farewell,’ ‘Good Boys’
Two summer sleepers hit disc this week, and both are worth your time. And that’s not all – we’ve got two must-see indies, a new release of an animated classic, an unsung ‘90s gem from Criterion, and a triple feature of ace ‘70s crime movies from KL…
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The Fundamental Conundrum of 'Doctor Sleep'
In retrospect, my first mistake was probably re-watching Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining the night before my press screening of Doctor Sleep, Mike Flanagan’s new film adaptation of Stephen King’s follow-up novel. I was explicitly encouraged to by the…
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The 9 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,’ ‘The Nightingale’
It’s a real dud week on disc – aside from our marquee title, the big new releases are Hobbs & Shaw, The Art of Racing in the Rain, and The Kitchen – so we’re dipping deep in to the streaming services, which have added a number of tasty titles at the…
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Flavorwire's Guide to Indie Movies You Need to See in November
We’re closing in on the end of the year, and this month’s indie offerings are about what you’d expect: a lot (and I mean a lot) of documentaries, a couple of obscurities, a few high-profile titles with awards aspirations, and plenty of Adam Driver.…
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The 12 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Dolemite Is My Name,’ ‘Godzilla’
I don't wanna overstate what an incredible week this is for home media, but let me put it like this: Criterion hits #1000 with a massive box set, #999 is a stone cold masterpiece, Netflix has two A+ new releases streaming, KL Studio Classics has two…
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The 8 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘The Art of Self-Defense,’ ‘The Laundromat’
A pair of tiny but powerful spring indies, landing on (respectively) disc and Hulu, lead up this week’s disc and streaming guide. Also worth a watch: a pair of sexy/goofy action/comedies, an anniversary edition of a beloved sci-fi spoof, new…
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Flavorwire's Tallgrass Film Festival 2019 Diary
I always try to make the journey back to my hometown of Wichita, Kansas not just because the Tallgrass Film Festival is one of the great under-the-radar fests in the country, but because it gives me a chance to catch up – their savvy programmers are…
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The 6 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘El Camino,’ ‘Mike Wallace Is Here’
One of our favorite TV shows gets a straight-to-Netfix sequel this week, and one of the year’s best documentaries lands on disc. And over on the catalogue side, we’ve got two silent classics and two horror/comedies – one beloved, one all but lost.…
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Flavorwire's New York Film Festival 2019 Diary
The 57th New York Film Festival drew to close over the weekend, proving (once again) to be one of the country’s most reliable surveys of the best of contemporary cinema – a handful of premieres, an abundance of must-see titles from other fests…
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'Gemini Man': A Bad Movie, Boosted by Bad Technology
“It’s like watching the Hindenburg crash into the Titanic,” Clay Verris (Clive Owen) fumes in Ang Lee’s Gemini Man, and it’s almost a dare to make a movie this bad, and put a line like that in it, and not expect to have it quoted back to you.…
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The 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Toy Story 4,’ ‘Midsommar’
This week’s big new disc releases are buzzy summer titles that couldn’t be further apart: the latest installment in a long-running family franchise, and a brutal slab of broad-daylight horror. Let’s take a look at those, and some catalogue titles…
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Flavorwire's Guide to Indie Movies You Need to See in October
Fall has fallen, festivals have come and gone, and Oscar Buzz ™ is in the air! Yes, folks, good movie season is full swing, and this October offers up an embarrassment of riches, from Cannes and TIFF winners to genre documentaries to welcome…
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The 8 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Spider-Man,’ ‘Maiden’
A summer smash and a sleeper hit documentary are the “new” of this week’s new releases, but the big news is over on the 4K shelf – where, just in time for Halloween, three creepy classics are getting the big UltraHD upgrade. All those, and more,…
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Scorsese's Gangsters Come of Age in 'The Irishman'
“You don’t know how fast time goes by ‘till you get there,” Frank tells the nurse, late in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, which, make no mistake, is the work of a filmmaker in his twilight years. Like John Huston’s The Dead or Ingmar Bergman’s…
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The 10 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Between Two Ferns,’ ‘Yesterday’
This week’s new releases are mixed efforts offering minor pleasures – worth seeing, but perhaps after the week’s catalogue titles, which include a Chaplin classic, an ‘80s masterpiece, a film noir essential, and more. Let’s dive in:
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The Fierce Emotional Urgency of 'Ad Astra'
My phone buzzed in my pocket as the lights went down at the press screening, and I quietly chastised myself – I usually remember to put it on airplane mode before then, both as a courtesy to my fellow moviegoers and to ensure that I’ll take in the…
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The 8 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Pasolini,’ ‘Polyester’
There’s much to love this week for fans of fringe cinema: an outsider director’s portrait of an outsider director (which finally hit theaters earlier this year, five years after its festival debut), a subversive’s scratch-and-sniff smash, and an…
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Flavorwire's Toronto International Film Festival 2019 Diary
TORONTO: It never feels fair to make broad generalizations in the immediate aftermath of a film festival, simply because no single person can see enough of a single slate to make any real qualitative judgments; more often than not, what you saw is…
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The 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘John Wick 3,’ ‘Aladdin’
Two early summer hits land on disc and demand, offering immense pleasures for adults and reasonable diversions for families. Plus we’ve got a new zombie comedy, an underrated Spaghetti Western, an expansive Bengali melodrama, and an atmospheric New…
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10 Movies We Can't Wait to See at This Year's Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off today, and as usual, your correspondent will be on Canadian soil to take in the latest awards-season hopefuls, foreign favorites, and (checks notes) comic book movies, that can’t be right? At any…
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The 8 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Booksmart,’ ‘Ma’
Two teen-centric pictures – one a coming-of-age comedy, one a wild slab of psychological horror – highlight this week’s new release slate, while a trio of classic British comedies are the catalogue picks of the week. Plus we’ve got erotic thrillers,…
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Flavorwire's Guide to Indie Movies You Need to See This September
September, as everyone is aware, begins what we know as “good movie season” – the post-summer period in which the studios break out their prestige pictures and the indies give a big push to the ones they think could make some noise at the awards…
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The 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco,’ ‘Apocalypse Now’
We’ve got a really lovely spread of home viewing experiences for you this week, from a fancy new 4K upgrade of an all-time classic to a thoughtful, provocative new documentary on Netflix – and several points in between. Let’s dive in, shall we?
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Flavorwire's Fall Movie Preview
Well folks, the Lion King has roared, the Avengers have avenged, and Hobbs and Shaw have, um, Hobbsed and Shawed. The slam-bang summer is over, with some triumphs and many, many disappointments, so now it’s time to get to the good season, the fall,…
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The 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Babylon,’ ‘Cruising,’ ‘The Witches’
It's another one of those "saved by the catalogue" weeks, since the new releases on shelves and streaming include such must-misses as The Hustle, A Dog's Journey, and Brighburn. Instead, we've got a treasure trove of gems from the distant and recent…
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The Fascinating Failures of Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater is a filmmaker who wears his heart on his sleeve, and that might be the key to understanding his filmography, which is about as erratic as one can imagine for a genuinely gifted director – when he’s on he’s untouchable, but when…
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The 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ ‘Shadow’
Well, the biggest damn movie of the year – or, domestically (and not adjusted for inflation) any year is available on disc and demand today, and it’s worth seeing, mostly. More adventurous moviegoers may want to check out another epic, this one from…
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'Dora and the Lost City of Gold,' Reviewed - by My Five-Year-Old and Me
Jason Bailey: All right, Lucy, what movie did we go see? Lucille Dryden Bailey: We went to go and see Dora and Boots. JB: And what did you think of the movie? LDB: I thought it was amazing, JB: You thought it was amazing! Why did you think it was…
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The 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘The Souvenir,’ ‘Amazing Grace’
This week’s big new releases are (comparatively) small movies: an intimate relationship drama, a vérité portrait of a recording session, a fashion documentary, and a personal peek into a murderous cult. We’ve also got a bit of buried ‘70s treasure…
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Flavorwire's Guide to Indie Movies You Need to See in August
Summer is winding down, and the big guns have pretty much fired; August and September are usually among the most underwhelming months of the multiplex year. So it’s a good time to catch up on some of those summer sleepers – The Farewell, Sword of…
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The 6 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Long Shot,’ ‘Share,’ ‘Domino’
Last year at the Sundance Film Festival, critics and audiences were wowed by the timely drama The Tale – which was then acquired by HBO and, sadly, mostly forgotten. This week, we’ll see if this year’s Share will meet with a similar fate. Among the…
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‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’: Tinseltown Valentine and Big-Budget “Manson-sploitation”
According to Bill Landis and Michelle Clifford’s essential exploitation movie history Sleazoid Express, the first fictional feature inspired by the Manson Family murders was Sweet Savior, which played (briefly) at a handful of grindhouses in the…
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The 6 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Missing Link,’ ‘Do the Right Thing’
LAIKA’s latest stop-motion animation adventure hits disc and VOD today, and I downright dare you to find a more enjoyable watch. But that’s not all: we’ve got three ‘80s favorites on disc, an over-the-top rock biopic on 4K, and an indie drama with a…
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Shame On Us for Sleeping on ‘Fast Color’
If you peruse this week’s new releases on your VOD service of choice, or your Redbox kiosk, or your local Best Buy, there’s a pretty decent chance that the title at the top of the stack will be Shazam!. It is, after all, a big spring superhero…
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The 8 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Fast Color,’ ‘Bisbee ‘17’
We didn’t do a “best of the year so far” list, but if we had, this week’s most noteworthy disc release would’ve likely sat atop it, a family drama that repurposes the superhero tropes into something deeply felt and stunning. Also this week: two new…
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‘Sword of Trust,’ ‘The Art of Self-Defense,’ and an Awkward Moment for Movie Comedy
These are strange times for comic filmmakers. Big-screen laughers have been in curiously short supply this year, and many of those that have made their way to the screen – Long Shot, The Hustle, Shaft, Poms, Booksmart, Late Night – have…
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The 9 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘High Life,’ ‘Transit’
Two of the half-year’s best independent pictures arrive on Blu-ray and on demand this week, and that’s not at all: one of our favorite ‘90s indie pics is streaming on Prime and one of Clint Eastwood’s warmest pictures is newly available on Blu-ray,…
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The 6 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Diane,’ ‘Spider-Man,’ ‘Apollo 11’
Last week was one of the grimmest in memory for new disc and streaming releases, so this week has to be… nope, somehow worse: that movie where Sam Rockwell and Taraji P. Henson solve racism, another Emilio Estevez directorial effort (they just keep…
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Flavorwire’s Guide to Indie Movies You Need to See in July
We’ve talked a lot, in this space, about the importance of summer counterprogramming – but it’s starting to feel like an outdated notion. While we were losing our minds last month over all the sequels tanking, Amazon also took a huge loss on Late…
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“Actually, They’re All True”: ‘Isis’ and the Slipping of Bob Dylan’s Mask
The performance starts at 20:25, if you’d like to bookmark it – and to be clear, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese is worth watching in its entirety, but the part we’re here to talk about begins at 20:25, Bob Dylan…
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The 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch,’ ‘James White’
We’ve seen some bleak weeks on home video, but this one is hard to top: we’ve got the WWII-era romance The Aftermath (pass), the Tim Burton Dumbo remake (HARD pass), and something called The Poison Rose starring John Travolta and Morgan Freeman…
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What Can We Learn from the Summer of Sloppy Sequels?
When Easy Rider celebrates its 50th anniversary here in about three weeks and the thumbnail histories of its success hit our timelines, you can count on the omnipresence of a few key points: the chaotic production, the mainstreaming of drug culture,…
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The 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Us,’ ‘Under the Silver Lake’
One of the biggest non-sequel, non-comic book movies of the year lands on disc and demand this week, allowing everyone multiple opportunities to watch and rewatch and decode and recode. And you can do the same with this week’s other big new release,…
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‘Shaft’ is a Case Study in How to Ruin an Iconic Character
There’s one word to describe Tim Story’s new riff (sort of a sequel, sort of a reboot, sort of a spoof) on Shaft, and that word is baffling. It’s hard to conjure up, even with the liveliest of imaginations, why anyone thought it would be a good idea…
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The 6 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Rolling Thunder Revue,’ ‘Captain Marvel’
Folkies will find much to love this week, as a new Bob Dylan documentary (in the loosest sense of the word) hits Netflix and a long-lost all-star concert lands on disc. Elsewhere, we’ve got a giant superhero movie and an Astaire and Rogers musical,…
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10 Memorable Pauline Kael Quotes About Movies
June 19 marks 100 years since the birth of Pauline Kael, the most influential film critic of her era, and one of the most noteworthy cultural critics of all time. (Here in New York, the Quad Cinema is celebrating with “Losing it at the Movies:…
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The 9 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Always Be My Maybe,’ ‘Gloria Bell’
Two very, very, very different trilogies hit Blu-ray and 4K this week, and that’s not all; we’ve got a new Netflix rom-com, a domestic take on a foreign hit, and a chance to stream one of the best horror flicks of the 1970s. Let’s take a gander: ON…
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Flavorwire’s Guide to Indie Movies You Need to See in June
Summer is upon us, and there sure are a lot of options! And many of them do not look very good! “Summer counter-programming” really is the oldest trick in the book, but it works; if you’re maybe not that into another superhero movie, soulless music…
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The 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Blue Velvet,’ ‘The Perfection’
If you’re in the mood for something wild, boy is this the week for you: we’ve got a new Neil Jordan thriller, a new Gaspar Noé eye-poke,a David Lynch classic on disc, as well as one of Netflix’s wildest originals to date for you streamers. All that…
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‘Booksmart’ Makes A Compelling Case For “P.C.” Comedy
Every once in a while, some thumb-twiddling twit (or former co-star of Parks and Recreation) will step up on the soapbox of social media and lecture us about how some classic movie comedy that we all adore – the examples vary, but Blazing Saddles is…
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The 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘How to Train Your Dragon 3,’ ‘Moonlight’
A marvelous animated trilogy draws to a close on disc this week, along with a new documentary, an art house hit, and a handful of must-have catalogue titles. Plus, two recent favorites migrate from Prime to Netflix. Let’s take a look: ON…
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The Pleasurable Brutality and Stylized Comic Violence of ‘John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum’
There’s a fight scene late in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, one of several such scenes wrapped up into the gleeful orgy of gunplay and hand-to-hand combat that takes up the bulk of its third act, in which the title character finds himself…
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The 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Apollo 11,’ ‘Princess Mononoke’
This week’s big new release contains hardly anything “new” – but it’s one of the best films of the year thus far. Also, one of last year’s most entertaining documentaries has made its way to Netflix, and it’s a rich week for catalogue titles, with…
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Recommended Reading: Cult Living, Podcast Binging, and Trump’s Teens
Modern online media is all about the signal boost, so every Friday here at Flavorwire, we take a moment to spotlight some of the best stuff we’ve read online this week. Today, we have thoughtful ruminations on contemporary sci-fi, podcasts, the…
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The 8 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘The LEGO Movie 2,’ ’Everybody Knows’
This is a good week to check out recent “disappointments,” as the comparatively low-grossing sequel to a family blockbuster and the latest from an art-house fave hit disc, ripe for reassessment. We’ve also got a pair of noteworthy new releases on…
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The Best and Worst Movies of the Tribeca Film Festival
The 18th annual Tribeca Film Festival has come to a close, and it was a busy one for your humble correspondent: I took in 32 new feature films (and a couple of revival screenings as well) over the course of the 12-day festival. And as has become my…
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Flavorwire’s Guide to Indie Movies You Need to See in May
Summer movie season is upon as, as you could tell from last weekend’s very loud landing of a very big Marvel movie, and if you like sequels and remakes and reimaginings, you’ll have plenty to see for the next few months. But if you’d like to take…
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The 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Dragged Across Concrete,’ ‘Police Story’
This week’s new releases are even more esoteric than usual, with a couple of recent indie faves hitting Netflix, a divisive new release on Blu-ray, three new additions to the Criterion Collection, and an underrated sequel to an all-time classic.…
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10 Filmmaking Tips from Scorsese, Coppola, Soderbergh, and De Niro
Sunday was like an all-you-can-eat buffet for movie buffs at the Tribeca Film Festival, which took over New York’s Beacon Theater for back-to-back, star-studded events: a 90-minute, career-spanning talk between filmmakers and long-time collaborators…
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Recommended Reading: Cannes Heists, ‘Giovanni’s Room,’ and Late-Night Libs
Modern online media is all about the signal boost, so every Friday here at Flavorwire, we take a moment to spotlight some of the best stuff we’ve read online this week. Today, thought-provoking features on a Baldwin classic and late night comedy, a…
By Jason Bailey
Tribeca 2019 Kicks Off Strong With ‘The Apollo’ (At the Apollo)
It has become something of a tradition for the Tribeca Film Festival to open with a performing arts documentary (recent examples include Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives and Live From New York! ), and it’s easy to cynically read this as a…
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