Reviews
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‘Tulip Fever’ Review: Long-Shelved Period Romance Is No Garden of Delights
This frenzied adaptation of the popular novel about another era’s flower power is a busy, empty mess
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‘I Do…Until I Don’t’ Review: Lake Bell’s Directorial Career Takes a Wrong Turn
The actress-turned-filmmaker crafts a disappointing follow-up to “In a World…”
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‘All Saints’ Review: John Corbett’s Cranky Cleric Dominates Faith-Based Drama
Based on a true story about a dying church revived by refugees, this low-key drama could appeal even to non-religious audiences
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‘Served Like a Girl’ Review: Doc on Female Homeless Vets Struggles With Tone
A look at a beauty pageant for female veterans mixes undeniably powerful stories with superfluous fluff
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‘Birth of the Dragon’ Review: Young Bruce Lee Remembered in Old-School Kung Fu Flick
Despite the front-and-center Caucasian character, this true tale of a showdown between Lee and a Shaolin master has cheesy appeal
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‘England Is Mine’ Review: Morrissey Biopic Feels Like a Perfectly Unhappy Smiths Song
Britain’s most acclaimed ’80s music icon gets solemn, reverent treatment from director Mark Gill and co-screenwriter William Thacker
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‘Leap!’ Review: French Animated Tale of a Wannabe Ballerina Is Harmless Family Fare
This unassuming, occasionally heartwarming piece of uplift set in 1880s Paris puts an orphan girl’s dance ambitions front and center
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‘What Happened to Monday’ Review: Noomi Rapace Is Woman Times Seven in Sci-Fi Dystopia
Glenn Close and Willem Dafoe co-star in Netflix action tale where seven sisters pretend to be just one
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‘Marjorie Prime’ Review: Jon Hamm Hologram Romances an Ailing Widow
This soulful sci-fi drama showcases the talents of veteran actress Lois Smith
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‘American Made’ Review: Tom Cruise Flies Between Comedy and Tension, Missing Both
Director Doug Liman flirts with scuzziness and political satire but shies away from the darkness
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‘Lemon’ Review: Brett Gelman Is Best at Playing the Worst
The comic flourishes in this biting comedy that sends up all those annoying sad-white-dude-in-an-indie tropes
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‘Logan Lucky’ Review: Steven Soderbergh Returns With Well-Oiled Heist Flick
Channing Tatum heads a crew of redneck robbers in a NASCAR-set clockwork crowd-pleaser from the un-retired master craftsman
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‘Patti Cake$’ Review: Indie Hits Familiar Beats But Earns the Hype
As an unlikely rapper on the rise, Danielle Macdonald is, herself, a star in the making
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‘The Wound’ Review: African Drama Explores Manhood Rituals
Suppressed homosexuality suffuses powerful story of three men who have different perspectives on their own yearning
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‘6 Days’ Review: Britain’s Own True-Life Hostage Crisis Is No ‘Argo’
London’s 1980 hostage situation at the Iranian embassy was edgy and taut; the movie version gives it the blandly commercial action treatment
