‘The New Mutants’ Film Review: A So-So X-Men Spinoff With Teen Heroes and a Horror Slant
This is one origin story that would have benefited from less table-setting
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‘Resistance’ Film Review: Jesse Eisenberg Stretches Himself as Marcel Marceau, Nazi Fighter
The ”Social Network“ star’s French accent might be iffy, but he handles both human drama and silent clowning with great skill
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‘Balloon’ Film Review: Daring Real-Life Escape Saga Becomes Paint-by-Numbers Thriller
This tale of East Germans escaping via hot-air balloon seems like it would work better as a documentary — or maybe a comedy
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‘Come to Daddy’ Film Review: Elijah Wood’s Father-Son Freakout Is Less Than the Sum of Its Parts
Those who don’t revel in midnight-movie oddity and gore for their own sake will find it lacking
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‘A Million Little Pieces’ Film Review: James Frey’s Fabricated Rehab Memoir Follows a Familiar Big-Screen Path
Collaborators Sam Taylor-Johnson and Aaron Taylor-Johnson try for something fresh, but they’re haunted by all the similar movies came before
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‘When Lambs Become Lions’ Film Review: Elephant Poaching Gets Even-Handed Treatment in Provocative Documentary
While the film doesn’t excuse poachers, it does illustrate how poverty drives them to break the law and kill wild animals
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‘Mr. Toilet: The World’s #2 Man’ Film Review: Documentary Reveals How Bathroom Humor Can Change the World
Jack Sim might shock people, but he’s raising awareness about sanitation issues on a global scale
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‘The Golden Glove’ Film Review: Lurid Serial-Killer Docudrama Offers Little Insight
Fatih Akin’s disappointing follow-up to ”In the Fade“ luxuriates in grime and murder but has no deeper understanding of its real-life murderer
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‘Riot Girls’ Film Review: Teens Battle It Out in a World Without Adults
There’s a fun, punk energy to this post-apocalyptic tale, but a too-short running time undercuts the stakes and the fun
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‘Chained for Life’ Film Review: Cult-Film-Within-a-FIlm Creates Haunting Meta-Narrative
Jess Weixler and Adam Pearson (”Under the Skin“) star in a movie about a movie where lines get blurred
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‘The Load’ Film Review: A Trucker Hauls Mystery Cargo Through War-Torn Serbia
Documentarian Ognjen Glavonić made a splash at Cannes with this austere, haunting look at lives under fire
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‘Tel Aviv on Fire’ Film Review: Israel and Palestine Clash on the Set of a TV Soap Opera
Viewing the conflict through a show-biz lens makes for effective comedy, but a late pivot to drama diminishes the impact
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‘La Flor’ Film Review: Argentine Epic Merits Its 14-Hour Running Time
Writer-director Mariano Llinás mixes spy thriller, musical and meta-fiction for a one-of-a-kind moviegoing experience
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‘Crawl’ Film Review: Kaya Scodelario Contends With Killer Gators and a Toothless Screenplay
Alexandre Aja feels like a hack-for-hire in this uninspired saga about alligators tormenting hurricane survivors
