Reviews
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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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‘Building the Wall’ Theater Review: A View of Post-Trump America Both Powerful and Preposterous
Just when you think the revelations in Robert Schenkkan’s new play can’t get any darker, they turn a deeper shade of black
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‘A Gentle Creature’ Cannes Review: An Ambitious Tale of Russian Corruption
While not much happens in the grand scheme, just about a thousand things happen in every scene of Sergei Loznitsa’s film
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‘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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‘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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‘Twin Peaks’ Review: Give Yourself a Present
What if the mystery was always just a great excuse for savory delights?
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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