Reviews
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‘Gemini Man’ Film Review: Will Smith Gets to Play Two Dullards in Ridiculous Cloning Thriller
Ang Lee blends an erratic script, listless performances and high frame-rate cinematography, and the results are terrible
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‘The Cotton Club Encore’ Film Review: Francis Ford Coppola’s Butchered Masterpiece Gets Its Redemption
New York Film Festival 2019: With the restoration of Gregory Hines’ complete performance, this legendary flop now stands among a master director’s greatest films
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‘Mary’ Film Review: Gary Oldman’s Haunted-Boat Tale Is Neither Sea- Nor Scare-Worthy
Emily Mortimer struggles to keep the film afloat, despite a script that underserves the characters and the chills
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‘Mister America’ Film Review: An Idiot Runs for Office, But That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
Tim Heidecker plays an unqualified criminal on the campaign trail, but this wobbly satire tells us nothing we don’t already know
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‘Dilili in Paris’ Film Review: Animated French Period Saga Provides a History Lesson for Kids
French animation legend Michel Ocelot mixes stylized characters with realistic backgrounds, to mixed effect
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‘Wrinkles the Clown’ Film Review: There’s a Great Doc To Be Made About Creepy Clowns — This Isn’t It
Director Michael Beach Nichols plays fast and loose with this urban legend but never plays fair with the audience
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‘Semper Fi’ Film Review: Fascinating Characters Get Sacrificed to Flat Melodrama in Marines Saga
Jai Courtney and Nat Wolff give their all as troubled brothers, but the movie ignores them for less interesting pursuits
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‘Lucy in the Sky’ Film Review: Natalie Portman’s Astronaut Cut Loose by Script’s Lack of Mission, Control
Director Noah Hawley and his all-male screenwriting team can’t seem to tether a complicated female character
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‘Low Tide’ Film Review: Coming-of-Age Tale About Buried Treasure Digs Up Promising Talent
A first-time director and a young cast team up for a teen adventure that recalls the best of the 1980s
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‘The Climbers’ Film Review: Chinese Mountaineers Tackle Everest in Old-School Adventure
Part mainland propaganda, part male-bonding saga, this epic merits a look on the big screen
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‘The Golden Glove’ Film Review: Lurid Serial-Killer Docudrama Offers Little Insight
Fatih Akin’s disappointing follow-up to “In the Fade” luxuriates in grime and murder but has no deeper understanding of its real-life murderer
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‘The Death of Dick Long’ Film Review: Offbeat Tale of a Disastrous Guys’ Night Out Mixes Humor and Compassion
You’ll be reminded of “Fargo,” but there’s also a sneaky humanity in this story about the weight of terrible secrets
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‘Sister Aimee’ Film Review: Fictionalized Tale of the Evangelist’s Disappearance Gets Lost On Its Own Path
This look at Aimee Semple McPherson’s desert sojourn buries itself in layers of metatext and revisionism
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‘Abominable’ Film Review: Familiarity Doesn’t Stop the Fun in This Sweet Animated Tale
A young Chinese girl helps a yeti get back home in a lushly-colored cartoon that might keep even seen-it-all parents engaged
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‘Villains’ Film Review: Small-Time Crooks Meet Very Bad People in Charmingly Eccentric Horror Comedy
Bill Skarsgård and Maika Monroe face off with Jeffrey Donovan and Kyra Sedgwick in a terror tale that’s oddly delightful
