Reviews
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‘Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko’ Film Review: Low-Key Coming-of-Age Anime Gets the Details Right
The tale of a young girl learning to love herself (and her seaside town) might not seem fresh, but the character specifics pop in this beautiful feature
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‘The Boys’ Season 3 Review: Homelander Gets Even More Villainous as Prime Video Series Pushes Its Limits
The new season of the Prime Video series is more graphically outlandish than ever before
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‘Wedding Band’ Off Broadway Review: The Theater Discovers Alice Childress, Again
The playwright’s follow-up to ‘Trouble in Mind’ receives a stellar revival
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What’s New on DVD/Blu-ray in May: ‘Turning Red,’ ‘X,’ ‘Mississippi Masala’ and More
Alonso Duralde spotlights the month’s best new physical-media releases — because streaming isn’t forever
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‘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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‘Apollo 10 1/2’ Film Review: Richard Linklater’s Nostalgic Reverie Is Less ‘First Man,’ More ‘Crooklyn’
The “Boyhood” director looks back at his “Space Age Childhood” when everything seemed new, shiny and possible
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‘The Girl From Plainville’ Review: Hulu Limited Series Provides Nuance to ‘Suicide Text’ Court Case
Elle Fanning and Colton Ryan lead this true crime drama that offers more shading to a story well-covered by the media
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12 Classic Oscar-Winning Performances That Still Hold Up (Photos)
From Audrey Hepburn to Alec Guinness to Barbra Streisand, these Golden Age portrayals have stood the test of time
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‘Jane by Charlotte’ Film Review: Charlotte Gainsbourg Goes Deep With Her Mother Jane Birkin in Riveting Documentary
Mothers, daughters, aging, regrets, and much more are examined in a series of revealing, loving conversations
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‘Creation Stories’ Film Review: A Muddled Look at Alan McGee’s Mythic Rise to Record Mogul-dom
The founder of the label behind Oasis and Jesus and Mary Chain deserves better than this trippy, messy biopic
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‘State of the Union’ Season 2 Review: Brendan Gleeson and Patricia Clarkson Explore a Marriage on the Rocks
The Emmy-winning short-form series is back with a new couple under marital pressure
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‘Last Words’ Film Review: Nick Nolte Finds Cinema at the End of the World in Clueless Apocalyptic Fable
Jonathan Nossiter creates an African protagonist to celebrate movie that are almost exclusively Western and white
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‘The Novice’ Film Review: Director Lauren Hadaway Makes a Splash With Intense First Feature
A freshman college rower pushes herself to her physical and mental limits in this Spirit Award nominee
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‘And Just Like That…’ Review: Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda Prove 3 Is Enough in HBO Max Sequel
The heroines of “Sex and the City” return older but blessedly light on puns and voiceovers
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‘Flee’ Film Review: Afghan Refugee Shares His Journey in Empathetic Animated Doc
Sundance 2021: This Grand Jury Prize winner uses animation to tell a story haunted by memory in a way live-action never could
