Reviews
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‘Do Not Resist’ Review: Timely Documentary Examines Police Violence
Police training — and local forces acquiring military weapons — goes under the microscope in this potent example of journalistic filmmaking
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‘The Birth of a Nation’ Review: Nate Parker’s Slave Uprising Drama Has Passion to Spare
Though controversy swirls around its director-star, this flawed, fiery depiction of Nat Turner-led slave insurrection remains a notable achievement
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‘No Tomorrow’ Review: Tori Anderson in a Lighthearted End-of-the-World Comedy
CW’s rom-com may face some problems getting viewers to commit
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‘Conviction’ Review: An Injustice How This Show Wastes Hayley Atwell
ABC’s new legal drama is no substitute for “Scandal”
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‘Timeless’ Review: Abigail Spencer and Company Go Back to the Past
NBC’s time-travel adventure might have a few too many twists
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‘The Girl on the Train’ Review: This Emily Blunt Thriller Gets Off Track
A strong lead performance is about all this bungled adaptation of Paula Hawkins’s twisty novel has to offer
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Robert Abele -
Critics Love Netflix’s ‘Amanda Knox’: 7 Glowing Reviews of ‘Outstanding Documentary’
The documentary taking a deep dive into the media frenzy that surrounded an Italian murder case is currently streaming
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‘The Encounter’ Broadway Review: How to Enjoy Getting Lost in the Theater
In a tech-driven show that includes headsets for audience members, Simon McBurney re-creates true expedition in Amazon rain forests
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’13th’ NYFF Review: Ava DuVernay Connects the Dots From Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter
This harrowing Netflix documentary examines how treating black American males as criminals has perpetuated systematic oppression
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‘Crisis in Six Scenes’ Review: Woody Allen Gets Burgled by Miley Cyrus
Aging filmmaker falls back on musty gags in Amazon’s ’60s-era political comedy
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‘Command and Control’ Review: Terrifying Nuke Doc Warns of Accidental Apocalypse
This look at the Damascus incident of 1980 presents our nuclear arsenal as a time bomb waiting to go off
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Sam Adams -
‘Masterminds’ Review: Zach Galifianakis Stars in Silly ‘Hillbilly Heist’ Comedy
“Napoleon Dynamite” director Jared Hess turns real-life fumbled felony into sweetly amusing cautionary tale of blind love
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Dave White -
‘All the Ways to Say I Love You’ Theater Review: Sex, Lies and Neil LaBute’s Big Paddle
Judith Light finds herself stuck in a high school teacher’s office, and she’s not the only one trapped there
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‘Westworld’ Review: What If Everyone Is a Robot Except You?
What would you do if you could do anything you wanted?
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‘Long Way North’ Review: Gorgeous Visuals Undermined by Flat Characters in Animated Adventure
Hauntingly beautiful images of Czarist-era St. Petersburg and Arctic fjords pop more than the two-dimensional personalities who inhabit them
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Claudia Puig