What timing! In the era of #MeToo and #Time’s Up, it hardly seems like the moment for a movie about a woman who does the sexual bidding of a powerful rich dude. (Though it might be just the ticket on whatever island Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K., James Toback, Jeremy Piven …
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What an astounding actress Annette Bening is. And she’s at her very best in Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool playing Gloria Grahame, a screen siren of the 1940s and 1950s. Here, however, we pick up with the actress during her last years, from 1979 to 1981, when she died …
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You could say that director Yorgos Lanthimos gives The Killing of a Sacred Deer the texture and throat-clutching chill of a modern Greek tragedy. You’d be right, of course – the filmmaker hails from Athens; this is his second film in English – but you’d also be short-changing the depth …
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