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‘The Deer King’ Film Review: Post-Ghibli Anime Delivers Better Setups Than Payoffs
The filmmakers tackle an ambitious man-and-nature saga but get lost in the specifics of plot, character and even design
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‘Sniper: The White Raven’ Film Review: Ukrainian Character Study Devolves Into Generic Revenge Thriller
Director Marian Bushan introduces us to a complicated figure but can’t handle the shift into standard (but well-shot) action movie tropes
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‘The Black Phone’ Film Review: Stephen King–Flavored Retro Horror Delivers Solid Chills
Scott Derrickson’s adaptation of a Joe Hill story leaves a lot on the table, character-wise, but it’s an effectively nostalgic scary tale
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‘Lynch/Oz’ Film Review: ‘Blue Velvet’ Meets the Yellow Brick Road in Fascinating Documentary
Tribeca Film Festival 2022: John Waters, Karyn Kusama and other experts connect “The Wizard of Oz” to the weird, wonderful oeuvre of David Lynch
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‘Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko’ Film Review: Low-Key Coming-of-Age Anime Gets the Details Right
The tale of a young girl learning to love herself (and her seaside town) might not seem fresh, but the character specifics pop in this beautiful feature
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‘I Love America’ Film Review: Sophie Marceau Tackles L.A. Dating in Glib, Shiny Rom-Com
If you hate-watched “And Just Like That…,” you might find similar shallow pleasures here
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‘Saturday Fiction’ Film Review: Gong Li Period Piece Falls Short as Spy Thriller and Backstage Drama
Director Lou Ye blends murky black-and-white and a soundtrack of background noises to enervating effect
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‘You Won’t Be Alone’ Film Review: Ambitious Horror Tale Collapses into Distracting Excess
Noomi Rapace’s turn as a 19th century Macedonian shape-shifter can’t overcome first-time director Goran Stolevski’s overblown style
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‘Jujutsu Kaisen 0’ Film Review: Anime Prequel Offers Solid Action for All Plus Easter Eggs for Fans
You don’t have to know the anime and the manga to enjoy this adventure involving young sorcerers, but it helps
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‘Dog’ Film Review: Channing Tatum and an Army Canine Take an Uneven Road Trip
Fans of Tatum, dogs and ostentatiously supporting the troops appear to be the target audience
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‘New York Ninja’ Film Review: Cult Movie’s Backstory as a ‘Lost Film’ More Interesting Than Anything on Screen
Not even an elaborate restoration and new voice dub by B-movie legends can make lemonade out of actor-director John Liu’s low-budget martial arts epic
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‘Hotel Transylvania: Transformania’ Film Review: Fourth Entry Is Freaky and Familiar, but Doesn’t Scare the Laughs Away
Adam Sandler and Kevin James have moved on, but the franchise maintains its gift for well-crafted, creepy silliness
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‘American Underdog’ Film Review: Zachary Levi and Anna Paquin Score With Corny Football Fable
This faith-based biopic works by emphasizing the relationships over the gridiron action
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‘Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time’ Film Review: Even With the Writer’s Involvement, This Doc Feels Vague and Incomplete
Decades of on-camera interviews with the “Slaughterhouse Five” author lead to a film portrait that still comes off as maddeningly elliptical
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‘A Mouthful of Air’ Film Review: Mental Illness Drama Bites Off More Than It Can Chew
Amanda Seyfried stars as a writer recovering from a suicide attempt in a tidy character study that never really digs into her emotional instability
