Reviews
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‘The Life of Chuck’ Review: Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King Adaptation Is His Best Film Yet
TIFF 2024: Based on the author’s novella, the Tom Hiddleston-starring film is a triumph of beauty and melancholy
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‘The Last Showgirl’ Review: Pamela Anderson Soars in Gia Coppola’s Las Vegas-Set Drama
TIFF 2024: The familiar story of an aging dancer is elevated by the former “Baywatch” star’s grit and screen presence
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‘Sharp Corner’ Review: Ben Foster Is Magnetic in Jason Buxton’s Isolated Thriller
TIFF 2024: The underrated actor is reliably excellent as a man unraveling while obsessing over car crashes outside his home
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‘Daniela Forever’ Review: Henry Golding Is Stranded in a Hollow Sci-Fi ‘Inception’ Riff
TIFF 2024: Despite glimpses of potential, Nacho Vigalondo’s latest needed to dream much bigger
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‘The Quiet Ones’ Review: Something Rotten in a Bank of Denmark
TIFF 2024: Frederik Louis Hviid’s Nordic heist movie is inspired by true events but lacks life
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‘The Thicket’ Review: Tubi or Not Tubi, This Is a Great, Gloomy Western
Peter Dinklage and Juliette Lewis headline an intriguing chase film from the eclectic streaming service
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‘Table 17’ Off Broadway Review: A Case Study in How to Steal a Show From the Leads
The featured actor Michael Rishawn makes a new rom-com by Douglas Lyons worth seeing
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‘Space Cowboy’ Review: A Life-Affirming Skydiving Doc About Cheating Death
TIFF 2024: This portrait of skydiving cinematographer Joe Jennings is often breathtaking
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‘His Three Daughters’ Review: Netflix Drama Is a Mesmerizing Character Study
Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen are sisters waiting for their father to die in Azazel Jacobs’ heartbreaking film
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‘The Luckiest Man in America’ Review: Paul Walter Hauser Gives a Winning Game Show Performance
TIFF 2024: Spinning a yarn about a contestant on 1980s competition series “Press Your Luck,” Samir Oliveros’ film can’t quite win it all — and that’s OK
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‘Vice Is Broke’ Review: A Messy Documentary Portrait of a Media Empire’s Rise and Fall
TIFF 2024: Like the publication itself, Eddie Huang’s doc offers strong insights — alongside spectacle
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‘Nutcrackers’ Review: Ben Stiller Makes Acting Return to Roll in the Mud, Pull Heartstrings With Unruly Kids
TIFF 2024: David Gordon Green’s comedy is sappy as heck and not as funny as you’d expect, but it sure does have heart
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‘The Front Room’ Review: A24’s Monster-in-Law Nightmare Strikes Unlikely Comic Gold
Brandy Norwood and Kathryn Hunter are dynamite in Max and Sam Eggers’ horror-comedy
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‘April’ Review: Abortion Drama Is a Singular Horror Show
Venice Film Festival: Director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s distinct film follows an OB-GYN who performs illegal abortions in Georgia
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‘The Perfect Couple’ Review: Nicole Kidman Keeps Her Must-Watch Murder Series Streak Alive on Netflix
The whodunnit adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s novel is the ideal late-summer binge
