Reviews
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								‘A House of Dynamite’ Review: Kathryn Bigelow’s Riveting Thriller Is a Nuclear NightmareVenice Film Festival: The director’s story of a potential missile launch aimed at the U.S. delineates the inner workings of the national security apparatus with a muscularity that is all her own 
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								‘The Smashing Machine’ Review: A Calm Dwayne Johnson Anchors Raw Martial Arts DramaVenice Film Festival: Benny Safdie’s debut as a solo director has plenty of bloody fights, but it’s more interested in what comes after 
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								‘Late Fame’ Review: Willem Dafoe Shines as a New York Poet Grappling With Delayed RenownVenice Film Festival: Kent Jones’ Soho farce is based on Arthur Schnitzler’s posthumous novella of the same name 
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								‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Review: Amanda Seyfried Is a Charismatic Prophet in Shaker MusicalVenice Film Festival: Mona Fastvold’s zealous historical music chronicles the rise of a religious leader in 18th century Manchester 
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								‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Review: Jim Jarmusch Pays Tribute to Messy Families in Amusing TriptychVenice Film Festival: Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Tom Waits and Charlotte Rampling are among the actors who riff through an anthology of awkwardness By Ben Croll
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								‘The Wizard of the Kremlin’ Review: Paul Dano Is the Only Quiet Thing in This Big Satire About Putin’s RiseVenice Film Festival: Jude Law plays the Russian president in Olivier Assayas’ film, but Dano holds things together as a mysterious mastermind 
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								‘Calle Malaga’ Review: Spanish Legend Carmen Maura Charms Her Way Through Moroccan Crowd-PleaserVenice Film Festival: Writer-director Maryam Touzani takes a situation that could be milked for drama and outrage and treats it with lightness and charm 
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								‘Motor City’ Review: Shut Up, We’ve Got an Action Flick Goin’ On HereVenice Film Festival: Director Potsy Ponciroli has set out to tell a bloody revenge story with (almost) no dialogue at all 
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								‘Hamlet’ Review: Riz Ahmed Is a Not-Very-Melancholy Dane in Revved-Up AdaptationTelluride Film Festival: Director Aneil Karia’s adaptation is a visceral, streamlined and furious journey through the text, leaving a lot out and speeding up what’s left 
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								‘Frankenstein’ Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Passion Project Is Monstrously MovingVenice Film Festival: The director hijacks the flagship story of the horror genre and turns it into a stunning tale of forgiveness 
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								‘Below the Clouds’ Review: Italian Documentary Explores Gorgeous, Haunted City of NaplesVenice Film Festival: Gianfranco’s doc is a tone poem paying tribute to a region that is suffused with beauty in the shadow of enormous loss 
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								‘Broken English’ Review: Marianne Faithfull Gets a Dark, Complicated DocumentaryVenice Film Festival: The film from Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth s part documentary, part art project, part philosophical treatise, part celebration and part provocation 
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								‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Review: Is This the Anti-‘Bohemian Rhapsody?’Telluride Film Festival: Scott Cooper’s film, starring Jeremy Allen White, is a bracing and moving antidote to beefed-up, heavily fictionalized rock biopics 
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								‘Highway 99 a double album’ Review: Ethan Hawke Throws a Long Party for Merle HaggardTelluride Film Festival: Hawke’s three-hour documentary features more than two dozen performances of Haggard’s songs by Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, Rosanne Cash and more 
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								‘No Other Choice’ Review: Park Chan-wook’s Black Comedy Is Really Black and Really ComicVenice Film Festival: The Korean director’s take on unemployment turns downright homicidal 














