‘Brightburn’ Film Review: The Kid’s Not All Right, Nor Is James Gunn’s Superhero Horror Lark
An origin-of-evil story cribbed from a famed superhero’s mythos amounts to little more than a collection of uninspired horror tropes
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‘John Wick 3’ Film Review: Keanu Reeves’ Assassin Returns for Mostly Enjoyable Threequel
The strain is starting to show in this franchise, but there’s still a kick to much of its action choreography and body-count brashness
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‘My Son’ Film Review: Efficient French Thriller Sends Divorced Father to Find Missing Kid
Guillaume Canet’s portrayal energizes this familiar but tight entry in the vigilante-dad genre
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‘Ask Dr Ruth’ Film Review: America’s Favorite Sex Therapist Gets a Cheerful, Enlightening Doc Portrait
Built around the natural star power of the colorfully accented sexpert, Ryan White’s film is a personality-driven charmer
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‘After’ Film Review: Harry Styles Fan-Fic Adaptation Goes in One Direction — South
Shallow, masochistic college romance between a good girl and a bad boy suffers from just about everything
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‘Peterloo’ Film Review: Mike Leigh’s 19th Century Epic Recounts a Notorious Massacre
The British government’s 1819 killing of peacefully assembled reformers is, in Leigh’s dedicated telling, a tragedy about speech snuffed out
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‘Screwball’ Film Review: Billy Corben’s Baseball Doping Doc Is Disreputable Fun
This raucously fun account uses child actors to re-enact a scandal that exposed a HRH-dosing clinician with baseball-star clients
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‘Hotel Mumbai’ Film Review: Nervy Account of Terrorist Attack Keeps Exploitation in Check
A hostage situation at India’s famed Taj Mahal Palace is depicted with humanity and horror
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‘The Mustang’ Film Review: Matthias Schoenaerts Tames a Horse and Saves Himself in Prison Drama
Schoenaerts mesmerizes as a hardened prisoner learning empathy in this affecting drama
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‘Ash Is Purest White’ Film Review: Jia Zhangke Unveils Another Thoughtful Epic About China’s Transformation
As a crime romance dissolves over time, Jia and star Zhao Tao create another mesmerizing portrait of ever-changing China
