‘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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‘Gook’ Review: Indie Drama Offers Korean American POV of LA Riots
In his powerful sophomore film, writer-director-actor Justin Chon explores relations between black, Latino and Korean Angelenos
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‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ Review: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson Liven Up Routine Shoot-Em-Up
Two charming stars and one canal boat chase aren’t enough to distinguish this Euro-set action-comedy
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‘Crown Heights’ Review: True Story of Injustice Lacks Dramatic Power
Sundance 2017: There’s a powerful tale to be told about an innocent man’s 20-plus years of incarceration, but this isn’t it
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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
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‘All the Rage (Saved by Sarno)’ Review: Alternative Medicine Doc Lacks Focus
The story of pain specialist Dr. John Sarno is a moving one, but the film could have dug deeper
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‘Pilgrimage’ Review: Tom Holland Goes to the Crusades
This medieval adventure bobbles its deeper ideas but knows how to plunge a sword into a face
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‘The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature’ Review: Who Run the World? Squirrels
Surly (Will Arnett) and his four-legged friends band together to fight the schemes of a greedy, land-grabbing mayor
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‘Whose Streets?’ Review: Ferguson Protests Spark Vivid Doc
The sense of a movement coalescing marks this urgent dispatch from the protests following the police shooting death of Michael Brown, Jr.
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‘Annabelle: Creation’ Review: Horror’s Bad Doll Gets a Sinister-Stuffed Origin Story
LAFF: The “Conjuring” spin-off series, in the hands of “Lights Out” director David F. Sandberg, delivers a solid array of haunted house jitters
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‘Good Time’ Review: Robert Pattinson Lurches Desperately Through Queens
Brother filmmakers Joshua and Ben Safdie tell a taut, tough tale of one sibling doing everything possible to bail out the other
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‘The Trip to Spain’ Review: Steve Coogan, Rob Bryden Impersonate Michael Caine Mainly on the Plain
Tribeca: How much you’ll want to take this third jaunt directly corresponds with your amusement with these actors’ constant digressions (and Michael Caine voices)
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‘The Glass Castle’ Review: Brie Larson Endures Tough Childhood, Toothless Script
Director Destin Daniel Cretton (“Short Term 12”) coasts over too much of the real-life horror Jeannette Walls captured in her memoir
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‘The Only Living Boy in New York’ Review: Kate Beckinsale Bewitches a Manhattan Millennial
Yet another insufferable saga from screenwriter Allan Loeb (“Collateral Beauty,” “The Space Between Us”)
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‘Planetarium’ Review: Natalie Portman Goes Bilingual in Lush, Forgettable Drama
Rebecca Zlotowski’s sensual tale of Portman and Lily-Rose Depp as séance-performing sisters in pre-war France never coheres into something emotional or thought-provoking
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‘In This Corner of the World’ Review: Haunting Anime Character Study Set in WWII
Japan Cuts Festival: A young woman comes of age in the months before the Hiroshima bombing in this beautiful but erratic animated feature
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‘Ingrid Goes West’ Review: Aubrey Plaza Stalks Elizabeth Olsen in #Blessed Satire
It’s ironic that you’ll be texting/tweeting about the brilliance of this social media satire
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‘Columbus’ Review: Low-Key Character Study Skimps on the Details
John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson get to know modern architecture — and each other — in a soulful film that could be richer
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‘Wind River’ Review: Jeremy Renner Blazes Through a Thrilling, Frigid Murder Mystery
Renner and Elizabeth Olson track a killer during a harsh Wyoming winter in this effective thriller
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‘Fun Mom Dinner’ Review: Toni Collette, Molly Shannon Go Wild, Predictable Hijinks Ensue
Bridget Everett and Katie Aselton round out a foursome who cut loose in mostly predictable ways
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‘Kidnap’ Review: Halle Berry Is One Tough Mother in Cheesy, Breathtaking Thriller
You’ll spend the first half of this B-movie yelling at her character and the second half cheering her on
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‘Chronically Metropolitan’ Review: Literary Indie Could Use a Rewrite
Chris Noth and Mary-Louise Parker head a family of writers in a movie that smacks more of “Gossip Girl” than The New Yorker
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‘Step’ Review: Dance and Dreams Bolster Exhilarating High School Doc
The underprivileged step-dancing senior girls at a charter Baltimore school give this fine, fierce documentary about aspirations its rhythmic heart
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‘4 Days in France’ Review: Sex-App-Based Road Trip Loses Direction
A gay man uses Grindr to follow his straying lover in an often unfocused trek
