‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ Film Review: Jillian Bell Gets Welcome Showcase in Indie Comedy
Great casting (the ensemble includes Michaela Watkins and Lil Rel Howery) helps the film glide over the script’s bumpy parts
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‘Vita and Virginia’ Film Review: Elizabeth Debicki Makes a Wonderful Woolf in a Bloomsbury Biopic That Falls Short
Debicki’s Woolf is written with far more depth than Gemma Arterton’s pouty Vita Sackville-West, and the film shortchanges both
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‘Driven’ Film Review: DeLorean Tale Offers a Fun Ride But No Memorable Destination
Lee Pace’s fine acting work as the controversial car magnate is overpowered by the hair and makeup departments
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‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette’ Film Review: Cate Blanchett Stars in a Diverting But Overly Streamlined Adaptation
Fans of Maria Semple’s novel might not like the changes, but there’s plenty here to charm viewers new to the story
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‘Vision Portraits’ Film Review: Visually Impaired Filmmaker Explores Artists Working Without Sight
Director Rodney Evans (“Brother to Brother”) examines how writers, dancers and even photographers create through their blindness
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‘The Mountain’ Film Review: Jeff Goldblum Plays an Authoritative Lobotomist in 1950s-Set Drama
Writer-director Rick Alverson’s portrait of toxic conformity occasionally feels guilty of what it seeks to expose
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‘Sword of Trust’ Film Review: Marc Maron’s Masterful Turn Exposes the Deep Roots of Lynn Shelton’s Comedy
Shelton’s caper about a sought-after Confederate relic feels breezy but has a lot to say about the current politically-charged moment
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‘Annabelle Comes Home’ Film Review: Horror Sequel Conjures Up Barely Any Real Scares
Apart from a few performances (notably Mckenna Grace’s), this third “Annabelle” outing is a lifeless catalog of ineffective spooky stuff
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‘Child’s Play’ Film Review: The Old Doll’s Still Got a Little Life in New Reboot
Chucky (now voiced by Mark Hamill) is more interesting as a sociopath-in-training than as the third-act slasher he becomes
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‘Framing John DeLorean’ Review: Meta-Doc Takes Various Tracks to Explore What Drove the Carmaker
Tribeca 2019: Alec Baldwin’s re-enactments don’t work at all, but the film achieves truthfulness when it sticks to traditional documentary
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‘Mouthpiece’ Review: Two Actresses Bring One Woman’s Duality to Life
Patricia Rozema adapts an acclaimed theater piece into a powerful examination of women’s internal and external conflicts
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‘Woodstock’ Film Review: Anniversary Doc Takes Boomers on an Evocative Trip Down Memory Lane
Tribeca 2019: Those “Three Days That Defined a Generation” get another look in a movie that pales next to the 1970 classic concert film
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‘Low Tide’ Film Review: Coming-of-Age Tale About Buried Treasure Digs Up Promising Talent
Tribeca 2019: A first-time director and a young cast team up for a teen adventure that recalls the best of the 1980s
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‘You Don’t Nomi’ Film Review: Documentary Asks, Were We Too Hard on Camp Classic ‘Showgirls’?
Tribeca 2019: Jeffrey McHale’s feature debut works awfully hard to justify both its subject and its mission
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‘Red Joan’ Review: Not Enough Drama, or Enough Judi Dench, in British Spy Story
Director Trevor Nunn finds no passion, intrigue or motivation in this based-on-a-true-story tale of espionage
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‘Stockholm’ Film Review: Ethan Hawke and Noomi Rapace Connect in Uneven Heist-Biopic
She’s dignified and he’s mischievous in a film that explores the origins of the Stockholm syndrome
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‘Working Woman’ Film Review: Israeli Sexual-Harassment Drama Delivers Powerful Sting of Truth
Michal Aviad’s intense film explores #MeToo power dynamics between a working wife and a powerful real-estate mogul
