Reviews
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‘Monos’ Film Review: Evocative, Oblique Film Follows Kid Commandoes and Their Prisoners
One part “Lord of the Flies” and one part Mica Levi’s dissonant score results in a fascinating but sometimes vague coming of age
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‘The Sound of Silence’ Film Review: Peter Sarsgaard and Rashida Jones Excel in Soulful Tale of Sound and Connection
The clashing notes of New York’s rattle and hum stir an audiophile to explain human behavior in this touching drama
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‘Depraved’ Film Review: Larry Fessenden’s Latest Is a Mumblecore Frankenstein
The film answers the question no one asked: “What if the scientists who brought the dead back to life were immature jerks?”
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‘Chained for Life’ Film Review: Cult-Film-Within-a-FIlm Creates Haunting Meta-Narrative
Jess Weixler and Adam Pearson (“Under the Skin”) star in a movie about a movie where lines get blurred
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‘Next Level’ Film Review: YouTube Teens Star in Well-Meaning But Borderline Inept Musical
Production values in a musical don’t matter if the songs and dances are great, but in this case, they are not
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‘Ms. Purple’ Film Review: Justin Chon’s Haunting Family Saga Explores Coping With Loss
The impending death of their father forces two siblings to assess their own lives in this beautiful drama from the “Gook” director
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‘Babyteeth’ Film Review: Australian Doomed-Teen Dramedy Hides Its Tougher Questions Behind Frills and Filigree
Director Shannon Murphy’s got style to burn, but an excess of it undercuts her characters and their dilemmas
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‘It Chapter Two’ Film Review: Little Moments Terrify in Effective Horror Sequel
Pennywise’s impersonation of Beverly’s abusive father generates more scares than all the CG insects money can buy
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‘Giants Being Lonely’ Film Review: Teen Baseballers Come of Age in the Shadow of Their Parents’ Errors
Venice 2019: Grear Patterson’s striking debut plays like a Terrence Malick memory piece without the distance of nostalgia
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‘Before You Know It’ Film Review: Indie Comedy Collapses Under Its Own Weight
Director, star and co-writer Hannah Pearl Utt crams in so many characters and subplots that she can’t do any of them justice
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‘Killerman’ Film Review: Liam Hemsworth Gets Amnesia in Forgettable Thriller
Malik Bader wants to pay homage to the gritty classics of the ’70s and ’80s, but he’s kept the toxicity while jettisoning the introspection
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‘The Load’ Film Review: A Trucker Hauls Mystery Cargo Through War-Torn Serbia
Documentarian Ognjen Glavonić made a splash at Cannes with this austere, haunting look at lives under fire
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‘Official Secrets’ Film Review: Kiera Knightley Stars In Middling Iraq War Whistleblower Drama
One woman’s courage in disclosing governmental corruption doesn’t always equate to explosive drama
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‘The Fanatic’ Film Review: John Travolta Gives Stalker Dementia a Bad Name In Trash-Heap Thriller
Travolta and director Fred Durst turn fan lunacy into a freak show of bad acting and bad-faith cautionary showbiz horror
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‘Overcomer’ Film Review: Sports-Centric Faith-Based Drama Preaches, Repetitively, to the Choir
The writing, the acting, even the lighting fails to turn the thudding messaging into something resembling cinematic entertainment
