‘The Secret Life of Pets 2’ Film Review: Cartoon Offers Outdated Messages About Marriage, Manliness
Come for the adorable puppies, stay for the toxic masculinity and antediluvian notions regarding love and family
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‘I Lost My Body’ Film Review: Bizarre Animated Film Finds Graphic Poetry in a Severed Hand
Cannes 2019: The story of a hand trying to find the body it once belonged to could nudge director Jeremy Clapin toward the top rank of film animators
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‘Trial by Fire’ Film Review: Death Row Drama Skirts Important Issues
Laura Dern is perfection, but this true story avoids going too deep into questions about class and race
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‘Shadow’ Film Review: Zhang Yimou Thrillingly Contemplates Duality
The yin and the yang dominate both the design and the storytelling of this exhilarating, bloody period saga
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‘UglyDolls’ Film Review: You’ve Seen This Toy Story Before
A dazzling cast of voice talent — including Kelly Clarkson, Janelle Monáe and Nick Jonas — get bogged down in an all-too-familiar kid cartoon
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‘Hail Satan?’ Film Review: Sly Documentary Buttresses the Wall Between Church and State
The film follows activists who challenge Christian supremacy by arguing for the devil’s inclusion in schools and the public square
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‘The Projectionist’ Film Review: Celluloid Romanticism Drives Dominican Road Trip Movie
Miami 2019: Director José María Cabral returns with his most accomplished feature to date, and it’s more than just a love letter to 35mm
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‘Captive State’ Film Review: Space Invaders Occupy Earth Without the Benefit of a Decent Script
This muddled disappointment from Rupert Wyatt wastes a cast that includes John Goodman, Ashton Sanders and Vera Farmiga
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‘Five Feet Apart’ Film Review: Terminal-Teen Tale Brings No New Ideas to Heartbreak Hospital
From doomed, beautiful adolescents to the requisite gallows humor, this love story never stands out in a crowded field
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‘Tremors’ Film Review: Guatemalan Drama Explores an Evangelical Dad’s Attempt to Come Out
Miami 2019: Writer-director Jayro Bustamante’s sophomore feature is a blistering attack on homophobia and hypocrisy among the wealthy and religious
