IndieWire

‘The Twentieth Century’ Review: A Delirious and Perverse Biopic About Canada’s Most Famous Prime Minister

Indebted to Guy Maddin, German Expressionism, and Elaine May all at once, “The Twentieth Century” resolves as a mega-silly but oddly sincere caricature of a nation’s cuckolded spirit. Whereas even the ...
IndieWire

‘The Twentieth Century’ Trailer: German Expressionism Meets a Midnight-Movie Acid Trip

This psychedelic reinvention of the formative years of former Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King hits virtual cinemas November 20. Part German Expressionist throwback, part tripped-out midnight ...
Variety

‘The Twentieth Century’: Film Review

Multi-hyphenate Matthew Rankin's low-budget, high-concept recounting of political life in the Dominion of Canada circa the turn of the twentieth century is both satiric and scurrilous. Like Maddin, ...
The New York Times

‘The Twentieth Century’ Review: The Great Weird North

In Matthew Rankin’s visually exuberant film, a candidate for prime minister copes with fascism and fetishism in a bizarro-world version of Canada’s past. By Nicolas Rapold When you purchase a ticket ...
New York Magazine

Twentieth Hijacker, The

The asymmetry was disturbing. There were five hijackers on the plane that crashed into the North Tower, five on the flight that brought down the South Tower, and five on the one that plowed into the ...
CNN

Twentieth Century Fox theme park announced

Disney and Universal will soon have competition on the film-inspired theme park front. Twentieth Century Fox has just unveiled plans to join the thrill ride party. Named “Twentieth Century Fox World,” ...
The New Yorker

Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre?

Genres are the Sirens of literary criticism. They seem friendly and alluring, but they are dangerously elusive shape-shifters. You really have to lash yourself to the mast. There is also the problem ...