‘Can You Forgive Her?’ Theater Review: Amber Tamblyn Copes With Extreme Student Debt
Her character finds a sugar daddy, played by Frank Wood, who steals the show (after it’s almost over)
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‘Rodin’ Cannes Review: It’s Got Art and Sex, But Where’s the Passion?
Jacques Doillon’s old-fashioned biopic of the French artist is honorable and handsome, but it has none of the freshness of the best Cannes titles
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’24 Frames’ Cannes Review: Abbas Kiarostami’s Final Film Is a Wry, Touching Farewell
A series of short vignettes based on his still photographs, “24 Frames” shows the late director’s wry humor and extraordinary eye
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‘Baywatch’ Review: Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron Sink in the Shallows
Torn between being a hard-R comedy, a coming-of-age story or a straight-up reboot, this film fails at all three
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‘The Florida Project’ Cannes Review: Unruly Kids Steal the Show in Heartbreaking Drama
Director Sean Baker says he focused on children in a cheap Orlando motel to show the plight of the “hidden homeless”
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Critics Roast ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ Sequel as Another Leaky Ship
Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley did little to redeem “Dead Men Tell No Tales” in critics’ eyes
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‘The Rider’ Cannes Review: Spectacular Rodeo Tale Is the Festival’s Sleeper Hit
Director Chloe Zhao shot her drama on a reservation in Montana, and cast real-life rodeo figures as versions of themselves
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‘War Machine’ Review: Brad Pitt Plays a General, But the Narration Takes Charge
Flat satire, muddled writing, an unconvincing lead performance and all that blah-blah on the soundtrack sink this War on Terror comedy
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‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’ Review: Johnny Depp Serves Up a Fifth of Frivolity
For a series that had already walked the plank with scurvy sequels, this fifth entry marks a surprisingly entertaining return to yo-ho-ho form
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‘Killing of a Sacred Deer’ Cannes Review: Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell Get Dark and Freaky
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has made a deranged-stalker flick with a thrilling, almost Kubrickian level of coldness and precision
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‘Twin Peaks’ Review: Give Yourself a Present
What if the mystery was always just a great excuse for savory delights?
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‘How to Talk to Girls at Parties’ Cannes Review: Punks Meet Aliens in Messy Mash-Up
Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman are among the stars of John Cameron Mitchell’s awkward film, which could have been a midnight-movie hit in another era
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‘The Whirligig’ Theater Review: Zosia Mamet Climbs a Tree on Guilt Trip
Hamish Linklater’s new play about substance abuse in old New England often leaves its fine young cast grasping for big effects
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‘The Meyerowitz Stories’ Cannes Review: Wow, Adam Sandler Might Actually Belong in Cannes
In another New York-set comedy from writer-director Noah Baumbach, Sandler holds his own alongside Ben Stiller, Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman
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‘Wind River’ Goes From the Snow in Sundance to the Beach at Cannes
A rare film to play Cannes after debuting at another festival, Taylor Sheridan’s drama with Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen held up well on the Croisette
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‘Promised Land’ Cannes Review: Elvis Presley, Meet Donald Trump
Eugene Jarecki’s bold documentary tells the story of Elvis’ rise and fall as a metaphor for America
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‘120 Beats Per Minute’ Cannes Review: Powerful AIDS Drama Could Be Awards Bound
Robin Campillo’s film about the early days of ACT UP in Paris packs an emotional wallop and left the Cannes audience in tears
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‘The Square’ Cannes Review: Swedish Satire Goes Ape, in the Best Way
Ruben Ostlund’s art-world story featuring Elisabeth Moss and Dominic West does a brilliant job of asking the director’s favorite question: “Aren’t we humans a sorry lot?”
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‘The Woman Who Left’ Review: Lav Diaz Takes Female Revenge to a Lonely Place
The nearly four-hour, black-and-white Venice prize-winner adapts a Tolstoy story about vengeance and reconciliation to moving, mournful effect
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‘Paint It Black’ Review: Amber Tamblyn’s Directorial Debut Pits Girlfriend vs Mommie-in-Law Dearest
A grounded Alia Shawkat and an over-the-top Janet McTeer play off each other as though they were in two completely different movies
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‘Okja’ Cannes Review: Netflix’s Giant Pig Movie Is Messy Good Fun
Once you got past the technical problems and the boos that greeted the Netflix logo, Bong Joon Ho’s film was audacious, frustrating and a real hoot
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‘Jupiter’s Moon’ Cannes Review: Ambitious Allegorical Fantasy Gets Lost in Collective Noise
Kornel Mondruczo serves up awe-inspiring visuals, but don’t expect another Cannes win
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‘Everything, Everything’ Review: Girl in the Plastic Bubble Falls for Boy Next Door
Nicola Yoon’s YA novel suffers some missteps on the big screen, but Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson make appealing young lovers
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‘Alien Covenant’ Review: Monsters Steal the Show in Stylish But Routine Sequel
Ridley Scott keeps his alien attacks as gross-scary-suspenseful as ever, but none of the dialogue scenes are nearly as compelling
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‘Derren Brown: Secret’ Theater Review: When Distraction Is Magic
The British showman is the William Castle of illusionists
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‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul’ Review: Once-Charming Franchise Takes a Road to Nowhere
The earlier entries were smart and sweet examinations of being a kid, but this time we get clichés and oversimplification
