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David Fear
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Chief Film Critic at http://RollingStone.com. Obsessive. Compulsive. Disorderly. President of the Chishu Ryu Fan Club. NYFCC, NSFC, NSFW.
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BOTD Alain Delon!!
MCCT5: 5)Purple Noon 4)L'Eclisse 3)La Piscine 2)Mr. Klein 1)JPM x3: Samourai/Circle/Flic
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The Shapeshifting Beauty of Alain Delon
To see the feline countenance of Alain Delon is to immediately understand his movie stardom. A New York retrospective surveys his career.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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SENTIMENTAL VALUE is Exhibit A for saying Renate Reinsve is canon-worthy, Stellan Skardsgard locking down éminence grise GOAT status, Elle Fanning being one of the best listeners on screen today and Joachim Trier summer lasting into the autumn months 📽️

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Why 'Sentimental Value' Is One of the Best Movies of the Year
'The Worst Person in the World' director, Joachim Trier, returns with a drama that blurs the lines between art, life, and family. It's phenomenal.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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There's a 50/50 chance you will love or hate DIE, MY LOVE. What Jennifer Lawrence is doing in the movie, however, is kinda awe-inspiring. This isn't performative punk-AF style bad behavior. This is a 100% free performance.

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Jennifer Lawrence Is Completely Unhinged in 'Die, My Love'
The actor goes for broke in this story of a new mother losing her grip — and gives what may be the most unique, untethered performance of her career.
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November 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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A review of PREDATOR: BADLANDS, which — and I can not emphasize this enough — is not to be confused with 'Predator: Jungleland,' 'Predator: The Promised Land' or 'Predator: 10th Avenue Freeze Out' 📽️

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'Predator: Badlands' Is a Buddy Comedy (No, Really)
The sci-fi franchise best known for alien hunters stalking humans asks: What do you get when you pair a chatty android with the killer of killers?
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November 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
davidlfear.bsky.social
So NOUVELLE VAGUE hits select theaters today (before hitting Netflix on 11/14). It's cinephile catnip

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'Nouvelle Vague' Turns Film History Into the Ultimate Hangout Movie
Richard Linklater's brilliant, breezy look back at the making of Jean Luc-Godard's debut will indeed leave you breathless.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online https://www.filmbuffonline.com/FBOLNewsreel/wordpress/2025/10/27/library-of-congress-makes-collection-of-classic-film-magazines-available-online/
Library Of Congress Makes Collection Of Classic Film Magazines Available Online
The Library of Congress’s Historical Media Publications Collection is now a an online, searchable resource for film fans and historians.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
davidlfear.bsky.social
What Kate said, the fisticuffs were minimal and I only gushed about @justincchang.bsky.social's writing and extolled the healing effects of bourbon once.
October 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Jack DeJohnette's art will live forever: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...
Jack DeJohnette, Revered Jazz Drummer, Dies at 83
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October 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
davidlfear.bsky.social
Went into STILLER & MEARA: NOTHING IS LOST expecting Ben Stiller to reminisce about his parents-slash-world-class comedy duo Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. Got something far more complicated, self-implicating, honest and dare I say healing than expected.

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Ben Stiller Had Issues With His Parents. So He Made a Doc About Them
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost is a tribute, a therapy session, and a look at balancing professional and personal lives that sometimes gets brutal.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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[in Bono voice] Am I BUGONIA? I don't mean to BUGONIA... 🎥

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'Bugonia' Asks: Are Aliens Among Us? And Do They Look Like Emma Stone?
Yorgos Lanthimos' latest movie deals in conspiracies, corporate doublespeak, and celebrity weirdness being a plus. In other words: our current reality.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
davidlfear.bsky.social
I saw it playin'
In a the-a-ter
Just a swirlin'
Its trau-ma
Me and it went for a ride, sir
And two hours later, Bruce, he cried...

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'Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere' Is Darkness on the Edge of a Bruce Biopic
Jeremy Allen White gives us a moody, mercurial Boss in a look back at the making of Springsteen's bleak-rock masterpiece 'Nebraska.'
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October 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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After Russ Vought experienced the chaotic failures of Trump’s 1st term, he made it his mission to ensure that a second Trump term would not “lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”

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Donald Trump’s Deep-State Wrecking Ball
Russell Vought is using the White House budget office to lay waste to the federal bureaucracy—firing workers, decimating agencies, and testing the rule of law.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
davidlfear.bsky.social
Was lucky enough to geek out with Rebecca Miller, director of the definitive profile MR. SCORSESE, about all things Marty-related. Docuseries now streaming on Apple TV. It's five hours long and my only complaint is that it is not 10 hours long.

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'He's a Filmmaker Who'll Die With His Boots On': Rebecca Miller on 'Mr. Scorsese'
Director of the five-hour docuseries on Martin Scorsese opens up about asking to profile America's greatest living filmmaker — and why he said yes.
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October 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Kiss Guitarist Ace Frehley Dead at 74
Ace Frehley, the Spaceman of Kiss who played with the group from their formation in 1973 until 1983, and then again in the Nineties, has died at 74.
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October 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
davidlfear.bsky.social
Jafar Panahi's IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is a nail-biting thriller, an elliptical road movie, a dessert topping, a floor wax, and a backstage farce revolving around a killing instead a play. It's also one of the most deceptively profound movies of 2025.

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'It Was Just an Accident': A Master Filmmaker Gets Revenge
Iranian director Jafar Panahi spins a tale of vengeance — and gives us one of the most deceptively profound movies of the year.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
davidlfear.bsky.social
If you have good taste — and I know you do! — you'd see this ASAP.

IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU 📽️

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'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' Gives You the Nonstop Panic Attack That Is Motherhood
This relentless A24 comedy about Rose Byrne fighting a hostile world — and losing — answers the question: What if you made 'Uncut Gems' for moms?
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October 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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These are the two greatest moments in cinema history and there is no third choice

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Outlaw King (2018) - Feast of the Swans
YouTube video by King Malric
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October 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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"Luca Guadagnino's handwringer about campus politics and cancel culture is definitely a cautionary tale, as in we strongly caution you against seeing something this empty and enraging."

AFTER THE HUNT 🎥

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'After the Hunt': Julia Roberts' #MeToo Drama Is 100-Percent #OhHellNo
It takes a lot of hard work and the perfect alignment of movie stars to make a social drama this irredeemably awful.
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October 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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The headline says it all. Huge, huge, huge fan of Rebecca Miller's five-hour docu-series MR. SCORSESE, which I wish was twice as long... #NYFF 🎥

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'Mr. Scorsese' Is the Definitive Portrait of Our Greatest Living Filmmaker
Five-part Apple docuseries is everything a fan of the director of 'Taxi Driver,' 'Goodfellas,' and 'The Wolf of Wall Street' could want — and more.
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October 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
davidlfear.bsky.social
There is stumping for your movie, and then there’s stumping for your movie, Benny Safdie-style…
October 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
davidlfear.bsky.social
Did Jimmy Kimmel write this caption?
October 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Print the legend
lindaholmes.bsky.social Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · Oct 2
You have probably heard this story from me, but a tale went around that one guy I knew was so creeped out by watching THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT at his house in the woods that he put towels over all the windows and watched A BUG’S LIFE twice in a row. Probably apocryphal, but I don’t care.
October 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
davidlfear.bsky.social
I can't recommend ORWELL: 2+2=5 enough — a perfect use of a 20th century figure as a lens to examine 21st century authoritarianism, a great example of how to use mural-like filmmaking as a weapon, another reason why Raoul Peck is an invaluable documentarian. 📽️

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How Did a Documentary on George Orwell Become the Scariest Movie of 2025?
Orwell: 2+2=5 look at writer who gave us a modern dystopian classic—and examines how authoritarianism works that feels way too familiar.
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October 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
davidlfear.bsky.social
This was Kaleb's piece on Norm. Absolutely fucking amazing piece of writing from an absolutely fucking amazing guy.

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September 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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When Norm MacDonald passed away, I remembered a writer who'd previously written about him and reached out. His name was Kaleb Horton. The appreciation he turned in remains the thing I'm most proud to have worked on as an editor at RS. This is a huge loss.

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The last magazine writer
What left with Kaleb Horton.
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September 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM