Reviews
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‘Becoming Elizabeth’ Review: Starz’s Teen Queen Historical Drama Is Engaging Yet a Little Creepy
While impressive performances abound, this story of teenaged Elizabeth I glosses over some of her story’s more traumatic details
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‘American Pain’ Film Review: Opioid Doc Falls Short of the Moral Outrage Its Subjects Deserve
Tribeca Festival 2022: Breezy look at pill-pushing twin brothers gives short shrift to the addicted (and deceased) victims of their “clinics”
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‘You Can Live Forever’ Film Review: Queer Love Blooms Amid Religious Repression
Tribeca Festival 2022: Directors Mark Slutsky and Sarah Watts shine a warm light into a Jehovah’s Witnesses community
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‘The YouTube Effect’ Film Review: Alex Winter Traces the History of the Ubiquitous Website
Tribeca Film Festival 2022: Beauty and horror, algorithms and monetization, free expression and conspiracy theories — they’re all just a click away
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‘Angelheaded Hipster’ Film Review: Marc Bolan’s Legend Dominates Tribute-Album Documentary
Tribeca Film Festival 2022: This film on the making of a T. Rex tribute features the likes of Bono and Joan Jett, but you’re left wanting more Bolan
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Every David Cronenberg Film, Ranked Least-Great to Most-Great (Photos)
Where does “Crimes of the Future” (2022) rank among the Canadian auteur’s filmography?
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‘God Save the Queens’ Film Review: Dismal Drag Comedy Bobbles the Laughs and the Drama
Tribeca Film Festival 2022: LGBTQ indie dips its toe into complicated topics about sex and gender before sashaying away
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‘Soft’ Off Broadway Review: Donja R. Love’s Tough New Play Redefines Masculinity
Biko Eisen-Martin plays a teacher in a correctional facility for teenagers
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‘Butterfly in the Sky’ Film Review: LeVar Burton Recalls the Golden Days of ‘Reading Rainbow’
Tribeca Film Festival 2022: This warm-hearted doc looks back at the triumphs and the battles that kept the beloved PBS show on the air for 23 years
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‘Rounding’ Film Review: ‘Saint Frances’ Director Returns With Intense, Unsettling Thriller
Tribeca Film Festival 2022: Alex Thompson’s sophomore feature sees the talented filmmaker grow even more confident as a storyteller
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‘Lynch/Oz’ Film Review: ‘Blue Velvet’ Meets the Yellow Brick Road in Fascinating Documentary
Tribeca Film Festival 2022: John Waters, Karyn Kusama and other experts connect “The Wizard of Oz” to the weird, wonderful oeuvre of David Lynch
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‘Lost Illusions’ Film Review: Balzac Adaptation Proves His Media Satire Still Stings
This César-winner for Best Picture shows that not much has changed between 19th-century Parisian scandal sheets and the Twitter hot take
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‘Neptune Frost’ Film Review: Afrofuturist Sci-Fi Musical Sends a Loving Battle Cry to the Laboring Class
Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman collaborate on a potent, original and exhilarating response to colonialist exploitation
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‘I’m Charlie Walker’ Film Review: Black Trucker’s Wild Life Story Gets Slipshod Biopic Treatment
Despite a magnetic turn by Mike Colter as the titular cleanup boss for a famous 1971 San Francisco oil spill, this amateurish indie fails to ignite
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‘1982’ Film Review: Lebanese War Drama Takes Familiar But Sensitive Route to Lost Innocence
A young boy’s first love unfolds just as the Israel-Lebanon conflict erupts