Reviews
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‘The Order’ Review: A Paunchy Jude Law Dominates Neo-Nazi Drama
Venice Film Festival: Director Justin Kurzel’s most accomplished work to date offsets broody fatalism against natural splendor
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‘Nickel Boys’ Brings Searing Tale of Injustice to Telluride
Telluride Film Festival: RaMell Ross’ adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel uses a unique cinematic sensibility to tell this gut-wrenching story
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‘The Friend’ Review: Naomi Watts, Bill Murray and a Big Dog Explore Love and Loss
Telluride Film Festival: The film from David Siegel and Scott McGehee is suffused with a sadness that it aims to carry lightly
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‘AfrAId’ Review: Chris Weitz’s Tech-Scare Thriller Says AI Is the Worst
An algorithm takes over John Cho and Katherine Watertson’s lives in a modest return to Blumhouse basics
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‘Babygirl’ Review: Nicole Kidman Goes Dom-Com for Safe, Commercial Kink
Venice Film Festival: The A24 film is a descendant of “Fifty Shades” without much bite
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‘Disclaimer’ Review: Cate Blanchett’s Life Implodes in Alfonso Cuarón’s Twisted Apple Thriller
Venice Film Festival: The Oscar-winning “Roma” filmmaker writes and directs all seven episodes with a pair of esteemed DPs in Emmanuel Lubezki and Bruno Delbonnel
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‘One to One: John & Yoko’ Review: Odd, Chaotic Documentary Explores a Dizzying Time for John Lennon
Venice 2024: The filmmakers have made a bracing, scattered and somewhat revelatory look at a period that’ll go down as a misstep for the Smart Beatle
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‘Slingshot’ Review: In Space, No One Can Hear You Yawn
Just because this Casey Affleck-led thriller sticks the landing doesn’t mean the journey is worth your time
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‘Reagan’ Review: Embarrassing Presidential Biopic Treats Dennis Quaid’s POTUS as the Second Coming
Jon Voight costars in what may be the most tedious presidential biopic in 80 years
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‘September 5’ Review: Can Journalists Be the Heroes in a Story of Deadly Terrorism?
Venice Film Festival: Tim Fehlbaum’s drama about the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics finds strength in dark rooms, unlikely protagonists and moral dilemmas
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‘Maria’ Review: Angelina Jolie Embraces the Crazy in Dreamlike Maria Callas Drama
Venice Film Festival: Pablo Larraín follows his films about Jackie Kennedy and Princess Diana with another dark fantasia about an iconic woman
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‘Separated’ Review: Errol Morris Pumps Up the Drama in His Story of Trump’s Border Policies
Venice Film Festival: The documentary filmmaker creates a curious hybrid by mixing nonfiction techniques with a fictional storyline
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‘1992’ Review: Tyrese Gibson and Ray Liotta Star in a Gutsy, Unexpected Heist Drama
Ray Liotta gives a frightening final performance as a thief pulling a high-stakes job during the Los Angeles Uprising
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‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Review: Sequel Is a Tim Burton Buffet, For Better and Worse
Venice Film Festival: Jenna Ortega and Winona Ryder star in the long-awaited follow-up
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‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 2 Review: TV’s Most Expensive Series Remains Stunningly Boring
Prime Video’s big-budget prequel has yet to develop characters we care about or put them in situations that make their fates moving
