Modern entertainments like Revolutionary Road and Far From Heaven purport to peel back the veneer of the post-war American Dream to reveal the dark, uncomfortable truths below the surface. They succeed to a point, but there’s an artifice that allows us the comfort of knowing we’re only watching a story. Where those films play at [...]

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This haunting documentary about a real family on the edge in the supposedly halcyon days of 1960s America has a leg up on recent movies that have dramatized a similar subject.

Must Read After My Death opens in New York on 2/20 and Los Angeles on 2/27.
If you live outside of NY and LA, you’ll be [...]

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