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‘Joker: Folie à Deux’s’ Fatal Flaw Is Turning the Fans Into the Villains of the Sequel

SPOILER ALERT: The following essay discusses key plot points of “Joker: Folie à Deux,” including the ending. It is intended to be read after...

Peter Debruge

“She always looks so extreme,” a fellow teacher observes of Maggie Smith’s trademark rigidity in “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (1969),...

This week, Lionsgate released — and then promptly recalled — an audacious trailer for “Megalopolis,” an ugly yet undeniably ambitious late-career...

Cinema isn’t a beauty contest, but if it were, Alain Delon surely would have won the title of the 1960s’ most handsome actor. That’s a...

Every great screen performance expands the medium in its own way, giving audiences something to respond to, while offering fresh ideas to future...

I’ve never seen a line for the men’s room at the American Cinématheque as long as the one that confronted me at intermission of the marathon...

“First time in a long time I didn’t hear any buzz at all about a July 4th blockbuster movie,” a friend texted me last week. His message struck...