Reviews
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‘Burden’ Review: Pioneering, Provocative Artist Chris Burden Gently Explained in New Doc
The late bad boy of death-defying performance and life-affirming sculpture (including those famous L.A. streetlights) remembered warmly and with respect
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‘The Dinner’ Review: Laura Linney, Steve Coogan Cram Too Much on Their Plate
Oren Moverman (“The Messenger”) overserves the ideas in this topical thriller-satire
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‘Risk’ Review: Julian Assange Doc Only Scratches Surface of Controversy
Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras got plenty of access to the WikiLeaks founder, but a full portrait remains maddeningly elusive
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‘How to Be a Latin Lover’ Review: Gigo-Lowbrow Comedy Disappoints
Mexican star Eugenio Derbez leads a talented cast doing their best to elevate this broad farce
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‘Slack Bay’ Review: Merchant Ivory Meets Monty Python in Period Farce
Juliette Binoche leads a cast having a great time — and that enjoyment is infectious in Bruno Dumont’s latest
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‘Sleight’ Review: Promising First Feature Combines Street Magic, Crime and Sci-Fi
Jacob Latimore is a winning young hero playing a street magician in over his head with criminals in director and co-writer JD Dillard’s confident genre hybrid
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‘Let It Fall’ Review: John Ridley’s Powerful Documentary Examines the 1992 LA Riots
A combination of enlightening, well-edited interviews and convulsive archival footage weaves a sad, shameful tale of incendiary racial tensions, from fuse to fire
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‘Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent’ Review: Gourmet Doc Serves Delicious Dish
Despite losing its way in the final courses, this film examines the unsung hero who helped invent the celebrity chef
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‘Free Fire’ Review: Ben Wheatley Sends Losers, Guns and Money
The British writer-director gives us lots of stars (including Brie Larson and Armie Hammer) shooting lots of bullets, to little effect
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‘Unforgettable’ Review: Katherine Heigl and Rosario Dawson Fight a Trashy War on Motherhood
Freed from likability, Heigl tears it up as an obsessive ex with mayhem on her mind
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‘Norman’ Review: Richard Gere Schemes His Way Through One of His Greatest Roles
In the new comedy from the director of “Footnote,” Gere wheeler-dealers his way around Manhattan, even when no one’s listening
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‘Little Boxes’ Review: Melanie Lynskey Race Satire Tries for Depth
There’s a lot of potential in a comedy about an interracial couple (played by Lynskey and Nelsan Ellis) in the ‘burbs, but the insight is skin-deep
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‘My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea’ Review: Satirical Teenage Adventure, ‘Poseidon’-Style
The kids are not all right in this clever, collage-like animated feature from graphic novelist Dash Shaw
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‘Tommy’s Honour’ Review: Golf Saga Explores Father-Son Links
Jason Connery (son of James Bond great, Sean Connery) makes the shot with this period piece about the birth of pro golf
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‘A Quiet Passion’ Review: Cynthia Nixon Overcomes 19th Century Prose
Terence Davies’s biopic on Emily Dickinson offers visual rapture, while the dialogue tends to trip up the talented ensemble cast
