Reviews
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‘War Paint’ Broadway Review: Patti LuPone, Christine Ebersole Never Makeup
How rare it is to see two great female performances in one season, much less in one musical
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‘Colossal’ Review: Anne Hathaway Conquers the Monster Within
One woman’s addictions manifest as a giant kaiju in this strange (and strangely funny) film from Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo
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Michael Nordine -
‘Smurfs: The Lost Village’ Review: Smurfette Stars in Much-Improved, All-Animated Adventure
Aiming this CGI movie directly at kids is but one of many improvements over the last two big-screen outings for the blue ones
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‘Gifted’ Review: Chris Evans Plays a Devoted Father Figure in No-Frills Drama
A tug of war over a young math genius makes for competent, if unexceptional, storytelling — but young Mckenna Grace steals the show
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‘Going in Style’ Review: Michael Caine and Company Rob a Bank, But the Film Steals No Hearts
Replacing the melancholic sting of the 1979 original with slick, empty caper clichés, director Zach Braff wastes a great cast
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Robert Abele -
‘Gently Down the Stream’ Theater Review: Harvey Fierstein Throws a Pity Party
The star offers tedium and sympathy in Martin Sherman’s play. Another new drama about same-sex marriage, “Daniel’s Husband,” is only marginally more endurable
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‘Present Laughter’ Broadway Review: Kevin Kline and Kate Burton Are Divine
The two play their duets to perfection despite a few slapshtick distractions around the edges of this Noel Coward revival
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‘Their Finest’ Review: British Screenwriters Keep Calm and Carry On in Stirring WWII Tale
Director Lone Scherfig (“An Education”) manages both to tweak and to champion the wartime perseverance that took place both on and off screen
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‘Amelie’ Broadway Review: ‘Hamilton’ Star Phillipa Soo Brings Movie Heroine to Stage
Actress plays shy French waitress who idolizes the late Princess of Wales — if only she had wanted to emulate the party-girl Diana
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‘The Assignment’ Review: Michelle Rodriguez Snarls Through Tacky Trans-sploitation Saga
The handling of trans issues is all wrong here, but then so is everything else in Walter Hill’s shoddy, sloppy revenge tale
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‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ Broadway Review: JJ Abrams Presents a British Farce With a Thick Slice of Ham
Dropped lines and dropped props are the order of the day as an “amateur” troupe mounts an ill-fated mystery to hilarious effect
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‘The Boss Baby’ Review: Wit and Charm Gets Sunk in Too Much Formula
This sweet tale of sibling rivalry doesn’t need all the requisite chase scenes and ticking clocks of by-the-numbers animation
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‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ Review: Jessica Chastain Saves Polish Jews But Can’t Rescue the Movie
Turning an incredible true story of a couple who sheltered Jews into bland historical fare is the most noteworthy of the film’s shortcomings
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Robert Abele -
‘Ghost in the Shell’ Review: Scarlett Johansson Takes Us to a Souped-Up Yet Familiar Future
Too aesthetically intoxicating to ignore but too derivative to adore, this live-action take on an anime classic is a frustrating tangle
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Ben Croll -
‘Sweat’ Theater Review: An Extraordinary Drama Set in a Grungy Rust Belt Bar
Lynn Nottage offers a bleak political-economic picture, but in a play that will be performed long after the era it defines has passed