Reviews
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‘Without You’ Off Broadway Review: Anthony Rapp Looks Back on ‘Rent’ and Loss
The “Star Trek: Discovery” star offers a heartfelt but thin musical memoir
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‘Landscape With Invisible Hand’ Review: Sci-Fi Adaptation Pulls Its Punches
Sundance 2023: Tiffany Haddish, Asante Blackk and Kylie Rogers star in Cory Finley’s latest
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‘Poker Face’ Review: Rian Johnson and Natasha Lyonne’s Peacock Series Is a Winner
This charming, “Columbo”-inspired case-of-the-week mystery is just what the doctor ordered
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‘Maybe I Do’ Review: All-Star Rom-Com Makes You Wish They Hadn’t
The offspring of two failed marriages consider tying the knot, but among all six characters there’s not a single recognizable human being
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‘Food and Country’ Review: Ruth Reichl Doc About Food Systems Is Earnest, Captivating and Overstuffed
Sundance 2023: There’s an entire TV series’ worth of material to chew on within filmmaker Laura Gabbert’s documentary
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‘The Stroll’ Review: Poignant Tribute Documents Trans Sex Workers in Pre-Gentrified NYC
Sundance 2023: The film celebrates the resilience and strength of survivors of West 14th Street, even as it leaves us wanting to know more
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‘A Little Prayer’ Review: David Strathairn Shines as Conflicted Patriarch in Thoughtful Family Drama
Sundance 2023: Writer-director Angus MacLachalan (“Junebug”) nails both the comfort and the struggles of family life
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‘Past Lives’ Review: Immigrant Tale Explores the Foundations of Love and Fate
Sundance 2023: Playwright Celine Song’s directorial debut asks evocative questions about how we are shaped by places and other people
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‘Mutt’ Review: Trans Man’s Encounters With Loved Ones Lead Him to Mending Relationships
Sundance 2023: The appearances of an ex, his half-sister and his father lead a man to resolve his past so he can build his future
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‘Small Talk’ Off Broadway Review: Colin Quinn Serves Another Round of Familiar Gripes
The comic’s latest monologue returns to the same well of complaints about how online culture is ruining America
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‘PLAN C’ Review: Providers of Vital Women’s Health Information Deserve a More Cogent Doc
Sundance 2023: We get to know some of the personalities involved in medication-abortion activism, but this film cries out for more hard facts
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‘Victim/Suspect’ Review: Exploitative Doc Celebrates Journalists Instead of Talking About Justice
Sundance 2023: That these stories are worth being told is inarguable, but is this the proper lens to go about it?
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‘My Animal’ Review: Queer Werewolf Tale Offers Little New But a Breakout Turn from Bobbi Salvör Menuez
Sundance 2023: Both the horror and coming-of-age elements feel overly familiar, but Menuez walks away with the whole film, tooth and claw
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‘Scrapper’ Review: Dad and Daughter Bond in Lovely British Drama
Sundance 2023: First-time writer-director Charlotte Regan pairs Harris Dickinson and talented newcomer Lola Campbell
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‘Rotting in the Sun’ Review: Misanthropic Satire Misses Its Targets
Sundance 2023: Director Sebastián Silva and comedian Jordan Firstman play “themselves” as awful creeps, but in this muddled comedy, it might not be an act
