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The glib response to George “Mad Max” Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing” is suggesting that only Terry Gilliam should be making Terry Gilliam “epics.” That assertion carries the message that it’s sprawling, fantastical and ambitious and that there’s a … Continue reading →

The first-person narration of a killer patiently plotting his “perfect crime,” pitilessly committing it and then going mad by the pounding of “The Tell-Tale Heart” of his long-dead victim is the most sinister component of Edgar Allan Poe’s masterpiece. It’s … Continue reading →

Several things stand out in Viola Davis’ just published memoir, “Finding Me.” She likes to eat, a product of a grueling food-deprived childhood. She’s never been afraid to work out, get in shape — or out of shape — for … Continue reading →

There is nothing finer in the cinema than a simple, well-acted and well-crafted thriller. “Delia’s Gone” checks off all of those boxes in a brisk but methodical and unhurried mystery set in rural Ohio. Damn, it’s good. You know who’s … Continue reading →

Dirty cops are misusing wiretaps and setting up people under surveillance. Dillon’s not one of them. Bruce is. Sept. 2

“A Song for Us” is an inane bordering on insipid Canadian melodrama without the drama. Its sole saving grace is the hippie nostalgia it wallows in, and the fact that I use “wallow” should tell you that’s praising with faint … Continue reading →

Close your eyes and listen to “Man with the Gun” and you can hear hints of “The Mercury Theatre on the Air.” The crisp, crackling dialogue, the brisk pace, it’s a film that has the aural qualities of an Orson … Continue reading →

A mother who leaves, who doesn’t give us a reason — not straight away, anyway. The “Diving Bell and the Butterfly” star directs Krieps and Arieh Worthalter in a screen adaptation of a play by Claudine Galéa, Sept. 9, in theaters. From Kino Lorber.

Could be something. Colson Baker (the star) hopes so, with Storm Reid, Drea Di Matteo and Travis Fimmel all playing Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon from now on. A Sept. 2 getaway undertaken by cross-country bus.

An “Orphan” sequel? The movie about the diminutive Eastern European girl with a sad case of the psychopaths? It’s a little late for that. The original came out in 2009, and Isabelle Fuhrman — who gets plenty of work without … Continue reading →