Reviews
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‘Me Before You’ Review: Emilia Clarke Love Story Has a Terminal Case of the Cutesies
For a romance that’s about infirmity and right-to-die issues, this adaptation of the best-selling novel is overloaded with artificial adorableness
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‘Hadestown’ Theater Review: Anais Mitchell Drops Orpheus Into a Postapocalyptic World
The bad guys steal the show from Orpheus and Eurydice, and when they do, you feel like you’ve just stepped onto Bourbon Street
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‘Elle’ Cannes Review: Isabelle Huppert Is Spectacular in Mean, Funny Film
Director Paul Verhoeven’s film seems designed to court maximum controversy
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‘The Salesman’ Cannes Review: The New Farhadi Is Good, Not Great
Director ably flexes his dramatic muscles in this slow burn story of a couple torn apart by a home invasion
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‘Graduation’ Cannes Review: A Superb Look at a Father Pushed Too Far
This story of a man realizing he’s The Man could pay off big for director Cristian Mungiu
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Critics Hate Sean Penn’s ‘The Last Face’: Here Are 7 of the Worst Reviews, So Far
Film about war-torn African nations starts getting ripped right from its opening title card
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‘The Last Face’ Cannes Review: Sean Penn’s Humanitarian Romance Misfires on Every Front
Some lines are so wincingly written and embarrassingly delivered that the Cannes press audience burst into sarcastic applause
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‘The Neon Demon’ Cannes Review: Elle Fanning Potboiler Is Gloriously Lurid and Stupidly Entertaining
If the supermodel knife fight in Nicolas Winding Refn’s movie doesn’t do it for you, maybe the necrophilia masturbation scene will
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‘Gimme Danger’ Cannes Review: Jim Jarmusch Delivers a Playful Tribute to Iggy Pop
This rock doc couldn’t be further from Jarmusch’s other Cannes movie, “Paterson,” though it’s the more conventional of the two films
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‘Risk’ Cannes Review: Laura Poitras Takes Intimate Look at WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange
Oscar-winning director tackles a controversial figure who wants to talk about politics, not feelings
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‘The Nice Guys’ Is ‘Breathlessly Crammed With Goodies,’ and 8 Other Gushing Reviews
Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe’s crime caper has a stellar score of 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes
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‘It’s Only the End of the World’ Cannes Review: Marion Cotillard and Vincent Cassel Can’t Save Total Misfire
Director Xavier Dolan’s fine actors aren’t given much to do beyond bellowing, bickering and being beautiful
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‘Maggie’s Plan’ Review: Greta Gerwig Shines in a Pithy but Slight Comedy
Gerwig and Ethan Hawke play familiar characters in a surprisingly breezy movie from director Rebecca Miller, but Julianne Moore goes way out on a surprising limb
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Critics Slam ‘Megyn Kelly Presents’ as ‘Pointless,’ ‘Awkward,’ ‘Infomercial for Her New Book’
Reviews for Fox News anchor’s broadcast TV debut are in, and they’re not good
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‘The Judas Kiss’ Theater Review: Oscar Wilde on Trial Again, This Time With Rupert Everett
A brilliant new revival establishes David Hare’s tragedy for what it has always been: one of the great plays of the late 20th Century