Reviews
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‘Perfect Match’ Review: Netflix’s Latest Reality Experiment Might Actually Be Perfect
The new series combines the casts of shows like “Love Is Blind” and “Too Hot to Handle” for one mega competition
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‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ Review: Paul Rudd and Jonathan Majors Bring Yin and Yang to Superhero Sequel
The biggest shrinkage on display here happens to Evangeline Lilly’s barely-there Wasp character
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‘The Blue Caftan’ Review: A Standard Drama Stretched to Interminable Length
Every close-up of a stitch feels like an eternity
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‘Pictures From Home’ Broadway Review: Nathan Lane Doesn’t Sing but Acts Up a Storm
Based on Larry Sultan’s acclaimed photo memoir, Sharr White’s new play delivers laughs amid the schmaltz
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‘You’ Season 4 Part 1 Review: Netflix Thriller Morphs Into a Dreary, Predictable Whodunit
Penn Badgley’s Joe grows a beard and moves to a rain-soaked setting, and that’s not the only thing Season 4 has in common with “Dexter”
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‘Sharper’ Review: Lots of Glitter, Little Gold in Sebastian Stan, Julianne Moore Drama
A shiny, reflective bauble that’s fun to play with but is ultimately forgettable
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‘Lucy’ Off Broadway Review: When Having It All Turns Into a Childcare Nightmare
Erica Schmidt’s thriller puts a few new spins on moms, nannies and the kids who are their victims
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‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ Review: A King of Tampa Finds His London Queen
Steven Soderbergh’s strip show devolves into faux girl power in this toned-down threequel
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‘Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over’ Review: Doc Pays Homage to a Living Musical Legend
Come for the songs and the fashions, stay for the Snoop Dogg story
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‘Godland’ Review: A Strikingly Realized Tale of Humanity and Nature in Unforgiving Iceland
A colonizing Danish priest’s turbulent journey into the terrible beauty of Iceland makes for a masterful, meditative epic
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‘The Amazing Maurice’ Review: Animated Comedy Shows Terry Pratchett’s Work Still Defies Adaptation
This tale of a talking cat, religious rats and Death certainly isn’t the usual family cartoon, but it doesn’t quite fulfill its lofty ambitions
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‘Body Parts’ Review: Crew Members Discuss the Nuts and Bolts of Sex in the Movies
Documentary examines the treatment of women and how intimate moments are captured on film, but it’s mostly a rehash
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‘Let It Be Morning’ Review: Palestinian Drama Takes a Caustic and Familiar Path
The melancholy affair relies less on absurdist laughs and more on frank despair
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‘The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic’ Review: Good Intentions Meet Tired Tropes
Petri Poikolainen’s lead performance can’t fix frustrations with plot
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‘A Lot of Nothing’ Review: Mo McRae’s Directorial Feature Debut Takes on Police Killings
McRae shows promise as a director, if not a writer, with this satirical drama