Reviews
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‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’ Film Review: Road-Picture Buddy Comedy Avoids Disability Stereotypes
Newcomer Zack Gottsagen and a rebounding Shia LaBeouf make an endearing team as they travel through the South
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‘This Is Not Berlin’ Film Review: Teens Come of Age in Mexico’s Post-Punk Avant-Garde
Writer-director Hari Sama looks back at the artistic and sexual experimentation of the 1980s with affection and bemusement
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‘Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’ Film Review: Teen Horror Anthology Spins Some Spooky Yarns
You don’t have to be a fan of the popular (and often banned) books to have fun with writer-producer Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation
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‘This Changes Everything’ Film Review: Hollywood Women Discuss Upping Their Ranks, on Both Sides of the Camera
Well-meaning documentary tackles show-biz gender disparity, and while it might not cover all the bases, it’s a good start
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‘The Kitchen’ Film Review: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss Lead a Mafia Misfire
You want this tale of female gangsters to be a gun-toting original, but it’s a discordant mix of clichés, incoherence and ill-used stars
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‘Vision Portraits’ Film Review: Visually Impaired Filmmaker Explores Artists Working Without Sight
Director Rodney Evans (“Brother to Brother”) examines how writers, dancers and even photographers create through their blindness
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‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’ Film Review: Old-School Family Adventure Strikes It Rich
Isabela Moner deftly updates the animated heroine in a film that, after a shaky start, hits the right notes of fun and cultural specificity
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‘Brian Banks’ Film Review: Forgettable Film Squanders Powerful True Story
The potential urgency in this saga of an athlete falsely accused of rape is undercut by the shortchanging of its female characters
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‘The Art of Racing in the Rain’ Film Review: Kevin Costner Voices Philosophical Dog In Standard-Issue Weeper
An auto racer’s shaggy best friend narrates all the feels in this unremarkably sentimental adaptation of the best-selling novel
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‘The Ground Beneath My Feet’ Film Review: Valerie Pachner Makes Great Strides as a Working Woman on the Verge
Writer-director Marie Kreutzer blisteringly examines a workplace that demands women push all emotion aside, no matter the cost
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‘Love, Antosha’ Film Review: Anton Yelchin’s Brief, Voracious Life Celebrated in Poignant Doc
The “Star Trek” actor had a hunger for work, life and experience, and left behind a legacy both on-screen and off
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‘The Nightingale’ Film Review: ‘Babadook’ Director Packs a Wallop in Bleak Revenge Tale
Jennifer Kent’s intense rape drama doesn’t contain the usual cathartic violence or exploitative titillation
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‘Tel Aviv on Fire’ Film Review: Israel and Palestine Clash on the Set of a TV Soap Opera
Viewing the conflict through a show-biz lens makes for effective comedy, but a late pivot to drama diminishes the impact
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‘La Flor’ Film Review: Argentine Epic Merits Its 14-Hour Running Time
Writer-director Mariano Llinás mixes spy thriller, musical and meta-fiction for a one-of-a-kind moviegoing experience
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‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Film Review: Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham Go Way Over the Top, With Fast Furiousness
This breathless “Fast & Furious Presents” installment never takes itself seriously, but it’s invested in being a blockbuster with heart
