Reviews
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Hey, Oscar Movies: We Get It, Rich People Are Bad
In the wake of “Parasite,” awards season has been filling up with movies about how awful the upper class is
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The 10 Best Documentaries of 2022
Film critic Robert Abele spotlights the year’s best in non-fiction cinema
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‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ Review: Whitney Houston Biopic Plays the Hits, but Still Manages to Surprise
Naomi Ackie shines in her performance of the songstress in a film that doesn’t shy away from the singer’s attraction to women
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‘Emily in Paris’ Season 3 Review: Netflix Series Finds Its Sweet Spot in the Best Season Yet
Just as Emily has figured herself out, the divisive show has done the same
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‘The Collaboration’ Broadway Review: Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope Are Warhol and Basquiat in Name Only
The real story of these two artists is far more interesting than what playwright Anthony McCarten concocts
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‘The Whale’ Review: Darren Aronofsky Handles a Heavyset Character With a Heavy Hand
This claustrophobic adaptation of a play simultaneously feels like a departure and entirely of a piece with his filmography
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The 10 Best Films of 2022, from ‘EO’ to ‘RRR’
Film Reviews Editor Alonso Duralde picks five pairs of his favorites out of an exceptional year
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‘Between Riverside and Crazy’ Review: Common Makes a Subdued Broadway Debut as Stephen McKinley Henderson Shines
The veteran character actor delivers a truly epic lead performance in Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Pulitzer-winning drama
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‘Living’ Film Review: Bill Nighy Shines in Elegant ‘Ikiru’ Remake
Screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro does right by Kurosawa’s classic about a bureaucrat facing his own mortality
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‘Wildcat’ Film Review: Young Veteran and Baby Ocelot Heal Each Other in Moving Nature Doc
First-time filmmakers go deep into the Peruvian jungle for tale of redemption
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‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ Review: Mortality Casts a Shadow on Otherwise Amusing Animated Sequel
There are comic moments that land, and action set pieces that pop, but the overwhelming sensation here is a meditation on the inevitability of death
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‘The Recruit’ Review: Noah Centineo Proves He’s a Leading Man in Charming Netflix Thriller
The “To All the Boys” breakout plays a CIA lawyer unraveling a conspiracy in the new series
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‘The Almond and the Seahorse’ Film Review: Stage Play About Mental Trauma Falters on Screen
In her dramatic debut, Rebel Wilson lacks the emotional range to overcome an overly self-serious screenplay
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‘Babylon’ Review: Hollywood Decadence at Its Dullest
Damien Chazelle’s overblown look at the magic and madness of the nascent film industry is a dreary, indulgent mess
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‘Great Expectations’ Off Broadway Review: Eddie Izzard Is a Pip – and All the Other Characters, Too
The actor-comedian proves a gifted storyteller in a Dickens adaptation by her brother, Mark Izzard