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Movies reviewed this week: No Bears, Rye Lane, Sharper, Images from the Playground, Body Double, Tai-Chi Master, The Intruder, and Three Colours: Red.

Movies reviewed this week: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Cam, Rebel Without a Cause, To Joy, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Kidnap Syndicate, John Wick: Chapter 2, La Cérémonie, and Summer Interlude.

Movies reviewed this week: Dressed to Kill, Enys Men, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Match Factory Girl, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, The Tarnished Angels, Pillow Talk, White Material, and The Stone Tape.

Movies reviewed this week: A Ship Bound For India, Soul, Sicario, Inland Empire, John Wick, and The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.

Movies reviewed this week: The Fall, The Italian Connection, Smiles of a Summer Night, Tron, There’s Always Tomorrow, Crisis, John Wick: Chapter 4, Kadaicha, All I Desire, and The Boss.

Movies reviewed this week: Bridge of Spies, Burn Out, Triangle of Sadness, Brotherhood of the Wolf, One Hundred and One Nights, Estonia Dreams of Eurovision!, Witchhammer, and The Last of Sheila.

Movies reviewed this week: The Slumber Party Massacre, Thing, Robin Redbreast, Pickpocket, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Return to Seoul, Four Days in July, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The Proposition, and Police Story 3: Super Cop.

I’ve lived in big modern apartment complexes with decent courtyards, but this post is on target despite the existence of exceptions. And even my apartment courtyard was a restricted access area, only open to apartment residents. I spend a lot of time thinking about back to office, hybrid work, remote work, and so on. As is usually the case, Charity Majors has good thoughts on this. Her company is fully remote and distributed, and I believe that was true even before the pandemic; like many of us, she’s found that you still need that physical presence from time to time. Here’s how she does it. ...

Movies reviewed this week: Women Talking, Caliber 9, The Maiden’s Tune, The Living Dead Girl, and Onibaba.

Movies reviewed this week: Becket, Lost Bullet 2, Up in the Air, Mr. Turner, Breaking News, and Dirty Ho.