Justin Chang

May 23, 2022

08:43

'Top Gun: Maverick' is ridiculous. It's also ridiculously entertaining

The three screenwriters of 'Top Gun: Maverick' have taken the threads of the original and spun them into an intergenerational male weepie: a dad movie of truly epic proportions.

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May 13, 2022

08:20

'Memoria' is a marvelously strange sonic detective story

Justin Chang calls Memoria, starring Tilda Swinton, a sonic detective story.

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May 6, 2022

06:10

Timely and urgent, 'Happening' is a film that speaks to today's abortion debate

Based on an autobiographical novel by Annie Ernaux, Happening unfolds over several weeks in the life of Anne, a 23-year-old literature student in the French town of Angoulême, who discovers she's pregnant after a brief fling.

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Justin Chang

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'Top Gun: Maverick' is ridiculous. It's also ridiculously entertaining

'Memoria' is a marvelously strange sonic detective story

Timely and urgent, 'Happening' is a film that speaks to today's abortion debate

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