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‘Perfect Days’: The beauty of simplicity and routine

In 1985, Wim Wenders released the documentary “Tokyo-Ga.” set in the eponymous city, Tokyo,  and inspired by the films of Yasjiro Ozu. For all...

Radar Replay: ‘Millennium Actress’: A lifetime on the silver screen.

Spoilers With a limitless medium in his hands and the ingeniousness to match it, Satoshi Kon produced some of animation’s most unforgettable work. In just...

‘The Zone of Interest’: An undisturbed life

“The Zone of Interest” depicts life in a Nazi household right next to Auschwitz. While a lone barbed wall separates the two premises, guttural...

The best films of 2023

“The Boy and the Heron” Hayao Miyazaki’s newest film asks how we can reconcile with the world’s hurt and be sure that it’s worth living...

‘Saltburn’ Review: Infiltrating the upper crust

Oliver (Barry Keoghan) is a freshman at Oxford University. His presence is anything but noteworthy — he’s dressed like a middle-aged penpusher and gets...

‘The Killer’: An assassin left to his thoughts

“The Killer,” David Fincher’s hitman thriller, stars Michael Fassbender as a nameless assassin who embarks on an international vendetta after a hit gone wrong...

“Priscilla” Review: Life under The King

In 1959, Priscilla Beaulieu met Elvis Presley at his house party. She was a 14-year-old ninth grader who lived the characteristic life of a...

The Horror of the Identity of Crisis

“Seconds” (1966) A man gets another life after visiting an organization that stages their clients’ deaths and performs full-body transformations. What follows is hallucinogenic and...

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Review: An American tragedy, reexamined

Across three and a half hours, Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” recounts the wealth that oil had brought to the Osage community,...

Radar Replay: ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ is a metamorphic romance spanning space and time

It begins and ends with the titular castle. Throughout “Howl’s Moving Castle,” the lumbering steampunk behemoth undergoes many physical changes, whether it be the...