Reviews
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‘The Jungle Book’ Review: ‘Babe’ Meets Rudyard Kipling in Mostly Satisfying Remake
The tigers and the turtles talk in Jon Favreau’s reimagining of the classic Disney cartoon – and the visual trickery satisfies both the eyes and the emotions
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‘God’s Not Dead 2’ Review: Religious Courtroom Drama Should be Held in Contempt
Sequel to the faith-based hit feels less heavy-handed but still treats Christian belief as an argument to be won, and non-believers as villains to be crushed
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‘The Crucible’ Broadway Review: Ben Whishaw, Saoirse Ronan Battle Forces of Evil
Ciaran Hinds and Sophie Okonedo also join the Salem foray in Ivo van Hove’s remarkable and disturbing new staging of an Arthur Miller classic
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‘Miles Ahead’ Review: Cheadle Turns Miles Davis’ Life into Freeform Jazz
Appropriately enough, here’s a movie that doesn’t follow a strict melody yet still brings you someplace surprising and satisfying
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‘Everybody Wants Some!!’ Review: Richard Linklater Scores With Another Nostalgic Rush
Set in the early 1980s, this charming comedy captures those heady first days of college, before majors have been declared or hearts have been broken
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‘Head of Passes’ Theater Review: Phylicia Rashad Confronts God, and He’s Mad as Hell
Job had it easy compared to Tarell Alvin McCraney’s put-upon heroine, who endures not only God’s plague of death but a crumbling set
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‘I Saw the Light’ Review: Tom Hiddleston Croons Sad Songs in Subpar Hank Williams Biopic
Hiddleston does his own singing in a biography that offers little insight into why the country legend hit the bottle — or, for that matter, clutched a microphone
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‘Bright Star’ Broadway Review: Steve Martin, Edie Brickell Write a TCM-Inspired Musical
Elements from such unwed-mother movie classics as “A Summer Place,” “To Each His Own,” and “Way Down East” are set to bluegrass score
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‘Born to Be Blue’ Review: Ethan Hawke Hits the Right Notes as Jazz Great Chet Baker
Hawke and Carmen Ejogo star in a biopic about the thrill of performance and the depth of addiction that manages to defy “Behind the Music” clichés
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‘Dry Powder’ Theater Review: Claire Danes, John Krasinski Level Low Blows Over High Finance
Krasinski is far more relaxed on stage than Danes, which leads to a peculiar sexist subtext to Sarah Burgess’ financial drama at the Public Theater
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‘Batman v Superman’ Review: Ben Affleck’s Got the Cool Car, But Wonder Woman Steals the Show
The movie’s only female non-pawn or hostage, Gal Gadot’s Amazon warrior saves this sludgy epic from superhero sameness
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‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2’ Review: Nia Vardalos Serves Up Second Helping of Sweetness
If you laughed at the cross-cultural jokes from the first “Wedding,” get ready to enjoy those same gags all over again
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‘The Effect’ Theater Review: A Playwright Takes a Page From Tom Cruise
David Cromer builds the suspense up to an eerie sex scene in Lucy Prebble’s new thriller. What will Act 2 bring? It’s not what you expect, unfortunately
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‘The Clan’ Review: Kidnapping Is the Family Business — and Business Is Booming
This Argentine Oscar entry from the producers of “Wild Tales” (including Pedro Almodóvar) finds bleak comedy in trickle-down Fascism