Robert Abele
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‘El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie’ Review: Aaron Paul’s ‘Yeah Bitch’ Is Back in Entertaining Sequel
Like a hole plugged in a show’s expanded universe, this coiled thriller satisfyingly reveals what happened to the award-winning drama’s beloved partner in crime
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‘The Death of Dick Long’ Film Review: Offbeat Tale of a Disastrous Guys’ Night Out Mixes Humor and Compassion
You’ll be reminded of “Fargo,” but there’s also a sneaky humanity in this story about the weight of terrible secrets
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‘Rambo: Last Blood’ Film Trailer: Sylvester Stallone’s One-Man Army Returns for More Dumb, Brutal Revenge Killing
Age cannot wither the action star’s thirst to showcase his slaughter skills, but this insane gorefest remains utterly pointless
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‘The Sound of Silence’ Film Review: Peter Sarsgaard and Rashida Jones Excel in Soulful Tale of Sound and Connection
The clashing notes of New York’s rattle and hum stir an audiophile to explain human behavior in this touching drama
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‘Official Secrets’ Film Review: Kiera Knightley Stars In Middling Iraq War Whistleblower Drama
One woman’s courage in disclosing governmental corruption doesn’t always equate to explosive drama
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‘The Fanatic’ Film Review: John Travolta Gives Stalker Dementia a Bad Name In Trash-Heap Thriller
Travolta and director Fred Durst turn fan lunacy into a freak show of bad acting and bad-faith cautionary showbiz horror
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‘The Kitchen’ Film Review: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss Lead a Mafia Misfire
You want this tale of female gangsters to be a gun-toting original, but it’s a discordant mix of clichés, incoherence and ill-used stars
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‘The Art of Racing in the Rain’ Film Review: Kevin Costner Voices Philosophical Dog In Standard-Issue Weeper
An auto racer’s shaggy best friend narrates all the feels in this unremarkably sentimental adaptation of the best-selling novel
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‘The Great Hack’ Film Review: Alarming Documentary on Voter Targeting Revisits Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Scandal
The makers of “The Square” lay bare the psychographic side of Facebook, and how user data can be turned into weapons against democracy
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‘The Raft’ Film Review: Compelling Doc Recounts Seagoing Social Experiment With Unexpected Results
Participants in an imaginative anthropologist’s perilous 1973 test of isolation and endurance recount their turbulent experiences
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‘Plus One’ Film Review: Maya Erskine Shines in Wedding-Season Rom-Com
Single college pals brave a flurry of weddings as each other’s guests in this charming set-up, but it’s rising star Erskine you’ll be toasting
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‘The Fall of the American Empire’ Film Review: Denys Arcand’s Money-Laundering Caper Isn’t Always Good, Clean Fun
The Oscar-winner’s comedy-thriller about inequality is its own unequal mixture of genre elements and social commentary
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‘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