Reviews
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‘My Little Pony: The Movie’ Review: Friendship Is Magic, and So Is This Equestrian Adventure
Everything that makes the show so beloved by kids (and their parents) survives the jump to the big screen, bringing unbridled joy to all
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‘Barracuda’ Review: Alison Tolman Unravels in Powerful Sibling Drama
Tolman and Sophie Reid play polar-opposite sisters who meet as adults and throw each other’s lives into turmoil
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‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’ Review: Vince Vaughn’s a Prison Crasher in Brutal Vengeance Flick
“Bone Tomahawk” filmmaker S. Craig Zahler turns in another viscous blend of low-key character study and violent low-art pulp
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‘The Florida Project’ Review: Neorealist Indie Strikingly Captures the Other Orlando
Willem Dafoe and talented newcomers capture Disney-adjacent homelessness in the latest from director Sean Baker (“Tangerine”)
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Elizabeth Weitzman -
‘Chavela’ Review: Powerful Doc Captures Singer Chavela Vargas, Mexican and LGBT Icon
From Vargas’ affair with Frida Kahlo to a late-in-life career boost from Pedro Almodóvar, this dazzling film chronicles an extraordinary life
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‘Flatliners’ Review: Unremarkable Remake Flashes Before Your Eyes
Joel Schumacher’s atmospheric cult classic about death-defying medical students, revived as blah horror
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‘Chasing Coral’ Review: Environmental Doc Exposes Oceanic Crisis
Jeff Orlowski (“Chasing Ice”) is more interested in advocacy than impartiality in this powerful look at our vanishing reefs
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‘Star Trek: Discovery’: 5 of Your Biggest Questions Answered
Are the Klingons okay and will it add to the ‘Star Trek’ universe
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‘Woodshock’ Review: Kirsten Dunst and Rodarte Lose Their Way in the Woods
The promising debut feature from fashion designer sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy is beautifully messy and emotionally muddled
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‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ Review: Spy Sequel Provides Bugger All in the Way of Fun
Without the first movie’s snappy charm, Matthew Vaughn’s follow-up to the gentleman-spy saga is just pop idiocy
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‘Loving Vincent’ Review: Van Gogh Biopic Made Entirely of Animated Oil Paintings
The unusual technique, which took years to accomplish, offers arresting visuals but never coheres into a transcendent drama
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Robert Abele -
‘Lego Ninjago Movie’ Review: Formula’s Still Fun, But the Story Feels Mechanical
The less you know about the world of Ninjago, the more you’ll like this amiable, lesser Lego adventure
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Elizabeth Weitzman -
‘Gaga: Five Foot Two’ Review: A Star Is Exhausted, Then Reborn, but for How Long?
This doc shows Lady Gaga bouncing back from illness and exhaustion for the Super Bowl, but recent events suggest her pain goes deep
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‘Manolo’ Review: Shoe Maestro Blahnik Gets Effusive, Adulatory Doc Treatment
Blahnik’s boundless imagination and countless admirers take center stage in an otherwise standard fashion documentary
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‘First They Killed My Father’ Review: Angelina Jolie Balances Poetry and Horror in Cambodian Saga
A child endures the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in a film that’s more admirable than it is affecting
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Todd Gilchrist














