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John Anderson is a television critic for The Wall Street Journal and a contributor to The New York Times.
Daniel Kaluuya, center, in “Judas and the Black Messiah.” (CNS photo/Glen Wilson, Warner Bros.)
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The “messiah” of the title is Fred Hampton, a Black Panther leader, orator, organizer and, in 1969, a 21-year-old murder victim at the hands of Chicago police.
Frances McDormand in "Nomadland" (CNS photo/Searchlight Pictures).
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“Nomadland” is the kind of movie that wins awards and no one ever watches it again. It’s cruel but true.
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“Saint Maud” is the latest entrant in the religious-obsessives-are-the-craziest-people movie catalogue.
Frances McDormand in “Nomadland,” which played at film festivals in 2020 and will be released to theaters in February 2021. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2020 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved.
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Have we seen the end of motion pictures as we knew them?
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The last movie in his “Godfather” trilogy was critically eviscerated when it debuted, and “The Godfather: Coda, The Death of Michael Corleone” seems a last-ditch effort to redeem the film.
Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz and Sean Persaud as Tommy in David Fincher's "Mank" (photo: Netflix).
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There is no way not to see “Mank” as a tale of self-destruction and professional suicide.
Abdul-mateen II As Bobby Seale, Ben Shenkman as Leonard Weinglass, Mark Rylance as William Kuntsler, Eddie Redmayne as Tom Hayden, and Alex Sharp as Rennie Davis in ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ (photo: Nico Tavernise/Netflix).
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That “Chicago 7” is turning up on Netflix at this precise moment is no accident, the moment being serious.
Robert Pattinson as Preston Teagardin in ‘The Devil All the Time’ (photo Cr. Glen Wilson/Netflix © 2020)
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“The Devil All the Time” is a story of fathers and sons, serial killers, religious frauds and fundamentalist lunatics.
Dev Patel as David Copperfield (photo: FilmNation Entertainment)
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“Copperfield” on the page or on the screen is a moral fable, the story of a boy growing into a moral man
Photo: CNS
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‘Fatima,’ gives both the innocent faithful and the innocently faithless their due.