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Screen Grabs: 2021’s best movies shone through troubled times

It was a not-at-all-bad year—if you knew where to look.
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Screen Grabs: 100 years ago, Hollywood saw its then-biggest ‘Event’

When the Gishes met Griffith, an overblown epic was born. Plus: A QAnon-Epstein-satanic horror? You bet.
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Screen Grabs: Holidays screwball and sinister with ‘Licorice Pizza’ and ‘Macbeth’

By the pricking of our thumbs, Paul Thomas Anderson and Denzel Washington come for Christmas.
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Screen Grabs: Young people seized by mysterious drives in ‘Novice’ and ‘Tender Bar’

A varsity rowing tale heaves with sweat, while George Clooney's latest lands on the mushy side.
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Screen Grabs: ‘Lost Daughter’ dares to explore maternal instinct’s absence

Plus: 'Nightmare Alley' intrigues, 'Margrete: Queen of the North' engrosses, and 'Revolution of Our Times' inspires.
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Screen Grabs: Looking back at Chaplin—and ahead to International Oscar noms

New biopic digs in. Plus: Slovenia's sweet 'Sanremo,' Chile's chilling 'White on White,' Japan's 'Drive My Car'—and 'Afrofuturistik' hits big screens
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Screen Grabs: Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ triumphs over doubts

The Sharks and The Jets dance again. Plus: 'Being the Ricardos' misses Lucy's wit; 'Red Rocket' shoots some sparks
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Screen Grabs: Facing the country’s challenges, from Pearl Harbor to COVID’s first wave

Exhibit at the Disney museum examines Walt's role in WWII—and 'First Wave' tackles the pandemic's arrival in NYC.
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Screen Grabs: The underwhelming nuns of ‘Benedetta’—and a Coppola fest!

Critic Dennis Harvey runs down the releases to ease you into the holidays, from a run of Coppola's SF productions to a spate of uneven blockbusters.
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Screen Grabs: You need a bizarre film moment like Another Hole in the Head

This year, the offbeat film fest sports 30+ features and 200+ shorts. Here's our critic's top picks.
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