Reviews
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‘Kiss the Future’ Review: U2 Goes to Sarajevo in Potent Documentary About Music as Weapon and Salvation
Berlin Film Festival 2023: Nenad Cicin-Sain’s film tells the story of a city that used culture to fight back, and a band that tried to help
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‘The Company You Keep’ Review: Milo Ventimiglia’s ABC Series Is Old School TV in a Whole New Way
Con men, elaborate heists and a twist on the will they/won’t they make this a can’t miss caper
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‘Emily’ Review: Frances O’Connor Explores the Stormy Life of the Woman Behind ‘Wuthering Heights’
Emma Mackey’s eyes are the windows to Emily Brontë’s soul in a biopic that melds fact and fiction
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‘BlackBerry’ Review: Energetic Comedy/Drama Details the Smartphone Legend’s Rise and Fall
Berlin 2023: Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton star in Matt Johnson’s humor-tinged behind-the-scenes account of tech innovation and market obsolescence
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‘The Wanderers’ Off Broadway Review: A Woody Allen-Tinged Character Pursues Katie Holmes on the Internet
Anna Ziegler’s play recalls the best of a banished filmmaker while plunging us even deeper into old Brooklyn
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‘Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey’ Review: Nothing Sweet or Interesting in Genre Mash-Up
The film is so slapdash and incredibly cheap that it’s almost punk rock
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‘She Came to Me’ Review: Anne Hathaway Shines in Well-Intentioned but Bland Relationship Drama
Berlin 2023: Director Rebecca Miller’s latest is as frazzled and unfortunate as its nervous characters
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‘Party Down’ Season 3 Review: A Decade Later, Starz Comedy Is Still Firing on All Cylinders
The revival brings back almost the entire cast of the cult comedy series, plus Jennifer Garner
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‘Marlowe’ Review: Liam Neeson Cosplays Hard-Boiled Detective Tropes
Neither spoof nor retrofit, Neil Jordan’s period piece perfunctorily revisits genre elements we all know by heart
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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














