Reviews
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‘American Chaos’ Film Review: Day-Late, Dollar-Short Doc Traces Trump’s Rise to the White House
After endless profiles in The New York Times about What Trump Voters Really Think, the last thing we need is a movie on the same subject
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‘Mandy’ Film Review: Nicolas Cage Takes a Big Bite Out of This Mad, Metal Midnight Movie
Panos Cosmatos’ follow-up to “Beyond the Black Rainbow” is a death-metal album cover and van painting brought to ultraviolent life
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‘Unbroken: Path to Redemption’ Film Review: Low-Budget Sequel Oversells Its Message
This in-name-only follow-up to Angelina Jolie’s biopic accentuates the conversion narrative, pushing racism and slamming psychiatry along the way
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‘A Boy. A Girl. A Dream.’ Film Review: New Lovers Clash on Election Night 2016
Meagan Good and Omari Hardwick star in an underwritten one-take film that’s like like an irritating, combative “Before Sunrise”
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‘The Predator’ Film Review: Shane Black Further Dumbs Down This Sci-Fi/Horror Franchise
The worst movie in the “Predator” series that doesn’t have the words “Alien vs.” in the title
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‘Where Hands Touch’ Film Review: Amandla Stenberg Packs Emotion in Earnest Holocaust Drama
Toronto Film Festival 2018: Director Amma Asante (“Belle”) shares an intimate story of Afro-German persecution during WWII
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‘The Land of Steady Habits’ Film Review: Nicole Holofcener Turns Her Sharp Eye Toward Masculine Identity Crises
Toronto Film Festival 2018: Ben Mendelsohn and Edie Falco star as unhappy suburbanites, in an “Ice Storm” for our age
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‘White Boy Rick’ Film Review: Real-Life Drug Saga Bolstered by Strong Performances
Even if Richie Merritt never acts again, he’s made an indelible mark with his naturalist turn as a teenage drug dealer and FBI informant
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‘A Simple Favor’ Film Review: Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively Mix Martinis and Murder in Disappointing Comedy-Mystery
Paul Feig’s cocktail of suburban noir and modern laughs misfires when its thriller elements ramp up
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‘God Bless the Broken Road’ Film Review: Faith-Based Drama Offers More Facile Homilies
The creator of “God’s Not Dead” returns with another preachy, bigoted sermonette that values messaging over drama
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‘The Ghost of Peter Sellers’ Film Review: A Troubled, Barely-Seen Comedy and Its Erratic Star
Venice 2018: Peter Medak I”The Ruling Class”) seems to have made this doc to let himself off the hook for past failure
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‘Peppermint’ Film Review: Jennifer Garner Vengeance Saga Lacks Snap
“Taken” director Pierre Morel returns with another gloriously dumb (and vaguely racist) parental revenge tale
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‘The Nun’ Film Review: Scary Sister Conjures Few Frights
This fifth entry in the “Conjure-verse” strays from the reality that grounded earlier chapters, but at least it’s never dull
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‘Hal’ Film Review: Engaging Documentary Celebrates 70s Maverick Director Hal Ashby
Amy Scott’s celebration of New Hollywood’s willful hippie auteur will have you primed to revisit his classics like “Shampoo” and “Harold and Maude”
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‘Ya Veremos’ Film Review: Mawkish Family Melodrama Has an Eye for Formula
A boy who’s about to have eye surgery tries to reunite his estranged parents in this sudsy Mexican tear-jerker
