Reviews
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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
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‘A Cooler Climate’ Review: James Ivory Leaves a Great Deal Unsaid in Docu-Memoir
New York Film Festival 2022: Ivory’s 1960 footage of Afghanistan captivates while the director’s old-school reticence keeps his more intimate memories locked away
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‘Dark Glasses’ Review: Dario Argento Returns to the Director’s Chair with a Minor Effort
The giallo master’s first directorial effort in a decade spawns more indifference than it does scares
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‘To Leslie’ Review: Andrea Riseborough Shines in Good-Hearted, If Conventional, Redemption Story
A disgraced lottery-winner hits rock bottom but finds the opportunity to work her way back to life
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‘Battleground’ Review: Abortion Doc Highlights Strategies of Anti-Choice Activists
Even-handed documentary indicates that both sides are not created equally when it comes to playing a political long game
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‘Catherine Called Birdy’ Review: Lena Dunham’s Modern Sensibilities Clash With Medieval Coming-of-Age Tale
The filmmaker has no apparent feel for the characters, the humor or even the visuals in this adaptation
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‘Onoda’ Review: French Director Makes Japanese Biopic With American Influences
Arthur Harari’s near three-hour drama borrows from John Ford to tell the story of a WWII Japanese soldier who didn’t give up for 29 years
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‘The Midnight Club’ Review: Mike Flanagan’s YA Netflix Series Is Hauntingly Beautiful
The “Haunting of Hill House” creator adapts Christopher Pike to emotional effect, telling the story of dying kids living in a possibly haunted hospice
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‘1776’ Broadway Review: Even Male Drag Can’t Rescue This Musical Clunker
It’s a show about the American Revolution that makes you root for the British
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‘Sirens’ Review: Arab Women Rockers Come of Age Under Fire
Members of all-female metal band Slave to Sirens adapt to everything from hostile audiences to coming out to political upheaval
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‘Last Flight Home’ Review: Ondi Timoner’s Beautiful Tribute to Her Father Documents His Last Days
The veteran doc director celebrates her dad’s life as she tracks his chosen path to his own demise
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‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Gross-Out Comedy Is Overlong and Understuffed
“The Square” filmmaker Ruben Östlund returns with a social commentary that relishes in toilet humor
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‘The Swimmer’ Review: Athlete Buckles Under High Stakes and Homophobia in Intriguing Israeli Drama
Writer-director Adam Kalderon has an eye for his Speedo-clad characters, yes, but also for his protagonist’s complex inner life
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‘Mr. Harrigan’s Phone’ Review: Stephen King Takes iPhone Addiction to New Levels
Jaeden Martell and Donald Sutherland star in this nifty allegory about how hard it is to put aside convenient habits, even when they’re bad for us