Reviews
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‘Paris Can Wait’ Review: Diane Lane’s Gourmet Road Trip Is Hard to Digest
Eleanor Coppola (“Hearts of Darkness”) makes a disappointing narrative debut with a tale that could have been called “Eat, Drive, Bore”
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Claudia Puig -
‘Lowriders’ Review: The Cars Are the Real Stars of This East LA Drama
Demián Bichir gives this earnest family tale his all, but the drama pales next to the gleam of the custom cars
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‘Manifesto’ Review: Cate Blanchett Is Every Woman in Trippy Art Piece
Tribeca: The actress serves up 13 wild characters delivering a variety of manifestos in a film too smart and sassy to be self-indulgent
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‘The Wall’ Review: Aaron Taylor-Johnson Pinned Down by a Sniper and a Minimalist Script
Doug Liman’s pared-down, Iraq-set war movie never fully expresses what it has to say about human conflict
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‘Arlington’ Theater Review: Enda Walsh Revisits a Few Dystopian Classics
The playwright conjures up ideas and images from “1984,” “Mara and Dann,” and “Blade Runner”
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‘Snatched’ Review: Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn Make an Uneven Duo in Comic Misadventure
There are sporadic laughs in this haphazard mother-daughter vacation gone wrong, but with this dream comedy pairing — it should be funnier
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Brutal ‘King Arthur: Legend of the Sword’ Reviews: Critics Fart in Film’s General Direction
Guy Ritchie’s manic take on the once and future king gets mercilessly panned
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‘King Arthur: Legend of the Sword’ Review: Guy Ritchie’s Excesses Put the ‘A Lot’ in Camelot
How much you enjoy the extreme-ification of the legend will depend on your tolerance for Ritchie’s mad garble of images
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‘Ernest Shackleton Loves Me’ Theater Review: A New Musical That’s More Twee Than Treat
The one-act show doesn’t just embrace its offbeat, time-traveling premise, but fairly wallows in it
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‘Burden’ Review: Pioneering, Provocative Artist Chris Burden Gently Explained in New Doc
The late bad boy of death-defying performance and life-affirming sculpture (including those famous L.A. streetlights) remembered warmly and with respect
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Dave White -
‘Pacific Overtures’ Theater Review: Stephen Sondheim Survives the Scissors
John Doyle’s staging has humor, thanks to the inspired casting of Ann Harada. But why trim Sondheim’s score?
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‘The Dinner’ Review: Laura Linney, Steve Coogan Cram Too Much on Their Plate
Oren Moverman (“The Messenger”) overserves the ideas in this topical thriller-satire
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‘3 Generations’ Review: Elle Fanning Tries Hard in Timid Trans Tale
A teen’s transition takes a backseat to the family members (played by Naomi Watts and Susan Sarandon) who must learn how to cope
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‘Chuck’ Review: Liev Schreiber Transforms Himself into the Boxer Who Would Inspire ‘Rocky’
Bittersweet saga of also-ran boxer Chuck Wepner, like its subject, goes the distance without quite becoming a champion
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‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’ Review: Second Album Is All Hooks, No Deep Cuts
Chris Pratt and company keep the banter and breeziness coming, but this sequel comes off more as fun filler than a movie unto itself