Reviews
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‘Inside Amy Schumer’ Season 5 Review: Sketch Series’ Long-Awaited Return Is Silly and Familiar
Six and a half years after the show’s last episode, Amy Schumer’s sketch series is back as she tackles the topical and the silly in equal measure
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What’s New on DVD/Blu-ray in October: ‘Nope,’ ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies,’ ‘Dr. Jekyll’ Uncensored and More Halloween Fare
Alonso Duralde highlights the month’s major physical-media releases — because HBO Max will disappear your favorite movie without warning
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‘Documentary Now!’ Season 4 Review: This Is Movie Nerd Paradise
Cate Blanchett, Alexander Skarsgard and Tom Jones appear in the new season of the IFC comedy series that hasn’t missed a beat
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‘Black Adam’ Review: Dwayne Johnson’s Anti-Hero Superhero Movie Is Anti-Entertaining
Despite its efforts to tweak the tropes, this is a muddled, overstuffed origin story
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‘The Vow’ Season 2 Review: HBO’s NXIVM Docuseries Follow-Up Is a Deeper Look Into the Cult
These new episodes feel like the more vital, less salacious and more balanced piece of the story
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‘The Piano Lesson’ Broadway Review: John David Washington Gives a Master Class in Acting
Samuel L. Jackson, Ray Fisher and Danielle Brooks co-star in the first Broadway revival of this August Wilson classic
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‘Decision to Leave’ Film Review: Park Chan-Wook Mixes Crime Story With Love Story
The Korean director’s first movie since “The Handmaiden” is gorgeous, richly dramatic and increasingly complex
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‘The Same Storm’ Review: COVID Lockdown Drama Offers a Snapshot of Recent History
Peter Hedges assembles an impressive ensemble (including Elaine May and Sandra Oh) to look at human connection during social distancing
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‘Sell/Buy/Date’ Review: Sarah Jones Examines the Lives of Sex Workers – and How to Make a Movie About Them
This very meta “unorthodoc” represents a good-faith response to pre-production criticism that this wasn’t a story Jones was entitled to tell
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‘Halloween Ends’ Review: Michael Myers Saga Concludes, For Now, With a Whimper
Director David Gordon Green offers little more than a padded coda to the tale of Haddonfield, with a sudden focus on a brand-new character
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‘Silent River’ Review: Lynchian Vibes Help This Motel-Set Indie Puzzler, But Only So Much
“Yellow” director Chris Chan Lee digs into his evocative setting but the results never quite come together
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‘The Winchesters’ Review: ‘Supernatural’ Prequel Series Gets Off to a Bumpy but Promising Start
The 1970s-set spinoff will have to work hard to step out from the shadow of the original long-running CW hit
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‘The Loneliest Boy in the World’ Review: Brainless Zombie Comedy Features Too Many Elbows to the Ribs
Yet another movie mining 1980s kitsch for content, this timid satire never challenges or amuses
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‘Death of a Salesman’ Broadway Review: Wendell Pierce and Sharon D. Clarke Lead a Revelatory Revival
Director Miranda Cromwell finds new depths in Willy Loman’s tragic story
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‘Is That Black Enough for You?!?’ Review: Deeply Felt Documentary Celebrates ’70s Black Cinema
Director Elvis Mitchell and a bevy of high-profile names go deep on a decade’s worth of extraordinary movies