Miss Sloane would like you to know that lobbying is a blood sport, a winner-take-all affair in which tactics trump ideas and those who…
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This year’s Foreign Film Oscar went to Son of Saul, a first feature from Hungarian Laszlo Nemes which follows an Jewish prisoner at…
The new cop film Triple 9 (the title refers to police radio code for the shooting of an officer) is an entertaining enough way to pass two…
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Smugness is the default setting for Ryan Reynolds. He is capable of more, but an actor can only take what’s put in front of him and the title…