‘Tina’ Film Review: Tina Turner Documentary Reaches for Pain and Glory but Falls Short
Directors Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin’s film is occasionally thrilling, but it also feels curiously truncated and oddly incomplete
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Every Quentin Tarantino Film Ranked From Worst to Best (Photos)
Where does “Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood” fall among the grindhouse auteur’s films?
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‘The Father’ Film Review: Anthony Hopkins Masterfully Captures a Descent into Dementia
Director Florian Zeller, adapting his own play, subtly but nightmarishly pulls the rug out from under us
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‘Shoplifters of the World’ Film Review: Teen Angst Gets a Soundtrack by the Smiths
The film’s best moments testify to the way the right song can make sense of the world, but there’s also a lot of jumbled coming-of-age melodrama in here, too
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‘Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway’ Film Review: Average Animated Sequel Is Too Much Stick, Not Enough Carrot
A little of this kiddie saga can be amusing, and a lot becomes tiresome
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‘Without Getting Killed or Caught’ Film Review: Lyrical Documentary Captures Songwriting Legend Guy Clark
SXSW Film Festival: Music documentary explains and teases, celebrates and mourns in a way that should enlighten those who aren’t fans and satisfy those who are
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‘Nobody’ Film Review: Bob Odenkirk Blows His Stack and His Cover in Delirious Shoot ‘Em Up
There’s mayhem aplenty in a film that simultaneously critiques and revels in masculine anxiety
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‘Alone Together’ Film Review: Charli XCX Documentary Is For, and About, the Singer’s Fans
SXSW Film Festival: The film ostensibly chronicles the making of the singer’s last album, but it’s less interested in the artistic process than in community in a time of isolation
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‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Film Review: There’s a Whole Lot More to Love – and Hate
If you like what Snyder does with superheroes, here’s a big four hours of it; if you don’t, same deal
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‘Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free’ Film Review: Ragged Documentary Fits the Man and the Music
SXSW Film Festival: Mary Wharton’s film chronicles a small moment in Petty’s career, but it turns into a loving and lovely portrait of the late rock ‘n’ roll star
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‘Operation Varsity Blues’ Film Review: Doc Peels Back the Layers of the College Admissions Scam
Mixing interviews and re-enactments, this tell-all documentary reveals the scheme and examines a process that’s broken in many ways
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‘Long Weekend’ Film Review: Indie Romance Has Terminal Case of the Cutes
Gauzy, underwritten love story is hard enough to swallow before it’s compounded with plot twists
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‘The Human Voice’ Film Review: Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swinton Speak Heartache Fluently
This adaptation of Cocteau’s play is a pandemic production, and Almodóvar’s English-language debut, but it’s pure Pedro
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What’s New on DVD in March: Wong Kar Wai, ‘Rick and Morty,’ ‘Fatale’ and More
Weather and/or the pandemic have you staying in? Alonso Duralde’s monthly column spotlights the best new DVDs and Blu-rays
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‘Land’ Film Review: Robin Wright Relies on Nature for Her Subdued Directorial Debut
Sundance 2021: The landscape overpowers the screenplay in this tale of a woman learning to live in the wilderness
