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  Hale County, This Morning, This Evening: Witness the Birth of a New Cinematic Language

  January 3 at 6:30 a.m.

  The finished work, a half decade in the making, is informed by his deep familiarity with its characters, which might be one reason why he has the confidence to abandon traditional narrative structures and strike out on his own lyrical path

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  Welcome to Marwen Crashes Into the Limits of Hollywood’s Imagination

  Thursday, December 27, 2018 at 6 a.m.

  At times, as it dissolves between scenes of its cast as literal toy dolls machine-gunning Nazis in the made-up Belgian town of Marwen, Zemeckis’ movie seems an inquisition into the limits of the director’s own imagination

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  On the Basis of Sex Shrewdly Makes RBG Into a Feminist Jimmy Stewart

  Sunday, December 23, 2018 at 7 a.m.

  Leder’s film mostly devotes itself to the future Supreme Court justice’s first world-shaking sex discrimination case, 1972’s Moritz v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Ginsburg and her husband ... argued against a discriminatory statute before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals

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  Vice Can’t Make Sense of Dick Cheney, but It Can Give You a Headache

  Sunday, December 23, 2018 at 6 a.m.

  Don’t look to Vice for psychology or even a sense of presence; McKay uses the Cheneys’ grim unknowability as an excuse not to bother going for either

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  Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk Does James Baldwin Proud

  Saturday, December 22, 2018 at 7 a.m.

  Baldwin’s central story, dialogue and time-jumping narrative structure are all in place, but so, too, is a sumptuous visual style that serves to deepen the novelist’s themes of racial injustice and the powerful countering force of love

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  With Mowgli, Netflix Has Its First Blockbuster

  Saturday, December 22, 2018 at 6 a.m.

  This time, though, the lessons are urgent, the jungle threatened by man, the wicked tiger Shere Khan (Benedict Cumberbatch) a true terror vowing to one day taste that boy’s blood