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‘We Feed People’ Film Review: Ron Howard Documents José Andrés’ Mission to Nourish Bodies and Souls
Both inspiring and a bit of an informercial, the doc follows the celebrity chef who became a leading global humanitarian
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‘Happening’ Film Review: ’60s-Set Abortion Drama Rings True to Current Zeitgeist
Director Audrey Diwan uses social-realist technique to bring the audience into the heroine’s struggle to navigate a labyrinth without a map
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‘Hello, Bookstore’ Film Review: Cozy Doc Honors an Indie Retailer Standing Fast in Changing Times
The local, overstuffed bookshop might seem like a relic of the past, but not if The Bookstore’s Matt Tannenbaum has anything to say about it
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‘The Duke’ Film Review: Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent Steal the Show as Blue-Collar Art Thieves
The final film from director Roger Michell (”Notting Hill“) blends true crime with understated comedy, to charming effect
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‘Dual’ Film Review: Karen Gillan vs. Karen Gillan Comedy Works in Theory But Falls Short in Execution
Gillan’s sad-sack must battle her own clone to go on living, but the film never lifts itself from the protagonist’s doldrums
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‘All the Old Knives’ Film Review: Chris Pine Spy Thriller Falls Short on Thrills
Pine and Thandiwe Newton do a lot more telling than showing in listless espionage tale
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‘Cheaper by the Dozen’ Film Review: Limp Third Adaptation Proves It’s Time to Put These Kids to Bed
Gabrielle Union plays a character so impressively vivid that we wonder why she’s married to — and yields the film to — an inert Zach Braff
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‘Asking For It’ Film Review: Kiersey Clemons Leads a Fierce Ensemble in Timely #MeToo Action Drama
Eamon O’Rourke’s intense tale has the same cult-movie zeitgeist energy that turned ”Promising Young Woman“ into a sleeper hit
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‘Lucy and Desi’ Film Review: Amy Poehler’s Engaging ‘I Love Lucy’ Doc Balances History and Homage
It’s an intimate, loving and even-handed exploration of the couple who changed show business forever
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‘Huda’s Salon’ Film Review: Politics and Patriarchy Haunt Palestinian Woman in Tense Thriller
”Paradise Now“ director Hany Abu-Assad returns with another tale of moral complexity in the Middle East
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‘I’ll Find You’ Film Review: Martha Coolidge Directs a Visually Lush WWII Romance
This old-school love story is way more interested in relationships than historical tragedy
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‘Downfall: The Case Against Boeing’ Review: Damning Doc Paints a Portrait of Corporate Cowardice
This blistering examination of just one example of malfeasance leaves us wondering about all the other scandals yet to be revealed
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‘Ted K’ Film Review: Impressionistic Unabomber Drama Reveals the Man Beneath the Monster
Director Tony Stone and actor Sharlto Copley take us on a breathless high-wire act, suspended over one man’s madness
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‘Breaking Bread’ Film Review: Feel-Good Documentary Connects Arabs and Israelis Through Cuisine
First-time documentarian Beth Elise Hawk follows a Palestinian winner of Israel’s ”Top Chef“ and her culinary brand of diplomacy
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‘Rifkin’s Festival’ Film Review: Woody Allen Returns to Spain, and a Very Dry Well, for His 49th Feature
Wallace Shawn plays a grumpy old man whose tastes have stopped evolving, and it would appear Allen’s have as well
