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‘Operation Fortune’ Review: Guy Ritchie’s Long-Delayed Action Comedy Misses the Mark
Even Hugh Grant and Aubrey Plaza can’t penetrate this lackluster spy lark
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‘Inside’ Review: Willem Dafoe Is a Tour de Force in Audacious Psychological Drama
Berlin 2023: An art thief locked inside a gilded cage sets the stage for a challenging, if affected, story of endurance
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‘BlackBerry’ Review: Energetic Comedy/Drama Details the Smartphone Legend’s Rise and Fall
Berlin 2023: Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton star in Matt Johnson’s humor-tinged behind-the-scenes account of tech innovation and market obsolescence
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‘Godland’ Review: A Strikingly Realized Tale of Humanity and Nature in Unforgiving Iceland
A colonizing Danish priest’s turbulent journey into the terrible beauty of Iceland makes for a masterful, meditative epic
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‘Filmmakers for the Prosecution’ Review: How the Power of Film Convicted the Nazis
‘Filmmakers’ is the strange, regrettable story of the original Holocaust documentary was shielded from post-war American audiences
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‘A Little Prayer’ Review: David Strathairn Shines as Conflicted Patriarch in Thoughtful Family Drama
Sundance 2023: Writer-director Angus MacLachalan (”Junebug“) nails both the comfort and the struggles of family life
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‘Drift’ Review: Cynthia Erivo’s Commanding Turn Bolsters Low-Key Refugee Drama
Sundance 2023: The film’s second half leans toward the tidy and cathartic, but Erivo’s performance remains unwaveringly riveting
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‘Missing’ Review: Stand-Alone ‘Searching’ Sequel Delivers More Digital Hunt-and-Peck Thrills
The online world still proves fertile for excitement and intrigue in this fast-paced mystery built from digitized footage, video chats and browser windows
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‘A Man Called Otto’ Review: A Cranky Hanks Heads a Blah Humbug of a Movie
Marc Forster directs this American adaptation of ”A Man Called Ove“
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The 10 Best Documentaries of 2022
Film critic Robert Abele spotlights the year’s best in non-fiction cinema
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‘Living’ Film Review: Bill Nighy Shines in Elegant ‘Ikiru’ Remake
Screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro does right by Kurosawa’s classic about a bureaucrat facing his own mortality
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‘White Noise’ Review: Adam Driver Fears Death in Noah Baumbach’s Don DeLillo Adaptation
The “Marriage Story” filmmaker’s reverent, stylish tribute to a great comic novel about American panic isn’t always the post-pandemic release you need, but it entertains
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‘Love, Charlie’ Review: Charlie Trotter Doc Recounts a Legendary Chef’s Rise and Collapse
Director Rebecca Halpern mixes insights with frenetic editing and too many unanswered questions
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‘Lamborghini’ Review: Frank Grillo Stars in a Carmaker Biopic on Automatic
”The Man Behind the Legend“ takes a backseat to gorgeous automobiles and breathtaking Italian vistas in this pamphlet of a biopic
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‘You Resemble Me’ Review: Fractured Life of a Radicalized Frenchwoman Becomes a Kaleidoscopic Biopic
Dina Amer’s psychological portrait of ”Europe’s first female suicide bomber“ is uneven but memorable
