Reviews
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‘Saturday Fiction’ Film Review: Gong Li Period Piece Falls Short as Spy Thriller and Backstage Drama
Director Lou Ye blends murky black-and-white and a soundtrack of background noises to enervating effect
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‘Russian Doll’ Season 2 Review: Netflix Series Trades Time Loops for Time Travel
Natasha Lyonne returns for the long-awaited second season of her twisty series, but it lacks some of the magic of the breakout first season
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‘How I Learned to Drive’ Broadway Review: Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse Return to the Scene of the Crime
Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play runs in top gear all the way
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‘Barry’ Season 3 Review: Bill Hader’s Dark Comedy Gets Even Darker
The Emmy-winning HBO series returns with jokes and emotional turmoil in equal measure
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Jennifer Keishin Armstrong -
‘The Minutes’ Broadway Review. Tracy Letts Delivers a Civics Lesson in 90 Minutes
The playwright also stars in this dark comedy about a really bad mayor
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‘American Buffalo’ Broadway Review: Sam Rockwell and Laurence Fishburne Explore Mamet’s Dark Side
A crackerjack third Broadway revival of the ’70s classic underscores its relevance for the age of QAnon
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‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ Off Broadway Review: James McAvoy Plays a Poet Stud
Less poetry and more sex makes for a very contempo take on the classic
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‘Paris, 13th District’ Film Review: Episodic French Drama Has Hip Vibe But Falls Short
Veteran director Jacques Audiard’s film has poise and style, but you can go in with high hopes and still leave wanting more
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‘Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore’ Film Review: There’s Little Magic Left in This Sagging Franchise
This latest entry abandons any plot points of interest from the previous two chapters, focusing instead on shocking reveals that are anything but
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‘Anatomy of a Scandal’ Review: Netflix Limited Series Is a Rich Tale of Consent and Accountability
Sienna Miller and Rupert Friend star in David E. Kelley’s story of a British MP accused of sexual assault
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Thelma Adams -
‘Dual’ Film Review: Karen Gillan vs. Karen Gillan Comedy Works in Theory But Falls Short in Execution
Gillan’s sad-sack must battle her own clone to go on living, but the film never lifts itself from the protagonist’s doldrums
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‘To My Girls’ Off Broadway Review: JC Lee Updates ‘The Boys in the Band’ for Millennial Gay Men
A new comedy set in a Palm Springs Airbnb tackles white gay male privilege
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‘Father Stu’ Film Review: Mark Wahlberg’s Tough Guy Finds Redemption as a Catholic Priest
Wahlberg and Mel Gibson both seem to be chasing on-screen rehabilitation for off-screen misdeeds in an above-average faith-based melodrama
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‘The Little Prince’ Broadway Review: Classic Tale Gets Dull Cirque du Soleil Lite Treatment
Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s classic falls to Earth with a thud in a new staging
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‘Birthday Candles’ Broadway Review: Debra Messing Bakes a Cake and Ages Ungracefully
Playwright Noah Haidle writes a high-concept tear-jerker
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By Robert Hofler