Reviews
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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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Dave White -
‘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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Robert Abele -
‘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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Dave White -
‘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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‘The Wilde Wedding’ Review: Glenn Close Leads All-Star Cast to Oblivion
Not even Close, John Malkovich, Patrick Stewart and other greats can elevate this limp family comedy
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‘American Assassin’ Review: Dylan O’Brien Mostly Hits the Target as New Secret Agent
Michael Keaton is fascinatingly gruff in what feels like a retread of old Tom Clancy adaptations
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‘F—ing A’ Theater Review: Christine Lahti Humanizes Suzan-Lori Parks’ Dystopia
Director Jo Bonney does what she can with this flawed but occasionally stirring Brechtian fable
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‘Dayveon’ Review: Evocative Rural Drama Explores Young Gang Member’s Coming of Age
Writer-director Amman Abbasi makes an ambitious debut with this heartfelt tale of a troubled childhood’s end
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Elizabeth Weitzman -
‘Year by the Sea’ Review: Female Empowerment Comedy Is Insufferably Twee
Karen Allen frolics and cavorts through an artificial celebration of finding yourself via travel and adventure
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Tricia Olszewski -
‘Rebel in the Rye’ Review: JD Salinger Biopic Explains It All for You, Poorly
Danny Strong’s portrait of the reclusive author, played by a miscast Nicholas Hoult, is a superficial mishmash of biopic tropes
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‘It’ Review: Horror Tale Floats Many Characters, But the Clown Disappoints
Covering the first half of the thick Stephen King tome, this adaptation juggles its many kids and parents with chilling efficacy
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Dan Callahan














