‘The Chaperone’ Film Review: Jazz Era Coming-of-Age Story Could Use More Flap
Los Angeles Film Festival 2018: Haley Lu Richardson steals the show in this period piece adapted by “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes
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‘Tea With the Dames’ Film Review: Enjoy an Entertaining Eavesdrop on Four Living Legends
Who wants to hear Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright and Eileen Atkins dish the dirt and reminisce over drinks? You do
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‘Making Montgomery Clift’ Film Review: Ebullient Doc Liberates Screen Icon from His Gloomy Reputation
Los Angeles Film Festival 2018: Clift’s nephew uses archival footage and other memorabilia to celebrate the star’s joie de vivre
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‘Assassination Nation’ Review: Verve Carries the Day in Scattershot Satire
This colorful mash-up of classic cinema tropes goes in a million directions, but sheer chutzpah gets it across the finish line
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‘Colette’ Film Review: Keira Knightley Offers a Tasteful Look at a Rebellious Artist
The boundary-pushing French author becomes the subject of an effective but tame biopic from Wash Westmoreland (“Still Alice”)
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‘Life Itself’ Film Review: Canned Tear-Jerker About Destiny Is a Jaw-Dropping Mess
“This Is Us” creator Dan Fogelman’s gimmicky play for your heartstrings wastes good actors and overdoses on tragedy
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‘Smallfoot’ Film Review: Fun Ideas Get Buried Under Avalanche of Mediocrity
There’s more than the usual kid-movie moralizing here, but the jokes, music and visual design break no new ground
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‘Jane Fonda in Five Acts’ Film Review: Doc Explores the Many Lives of the Actress-Activist
Like Fonda’s 2005 memoir, the film shows a woman bouncing back brilliantly from tragedy and regret
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‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ Review: Michael Moore’s New Movie Is About a Lot More Than Donald Trump
The angry film starts with the president but grows into a sprawling indictment of the system that led to his election, and maybe even a prescription for change
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‘The Sisters Brothers’ Film Review: John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix Saddle Up for an Extraordinary Western
Venice 2018: Jake Gyllenhaal and Riz Ahmed co-star in this funny, tragic, intimate epic from Jacques Audiard (“A Prophet”)
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‘Love, Gilda’ Film Review: Gilda Radner Lives Again in Touching Documentary
First-time director Lisa D’Apolito captures the comedy and the tragedy of the beloved “SNL” star
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‘House With a Clock in Its Walls’ Film Review: Eli Roth Directs a Fun, Family-Friendly Halloween Frolic
Cate Blanchett and Jack Black are clearly having a blast as a friendly witch and warlock, and their joy is infectious
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‘Bel Canto’ Film Review: Julianne Moore Thriller Hits All the Wrong Notes
Moore (as an opera diva) and Ken Watanabe are held captive in a flailing, pointless adaptation of Ann Patchett’s best-seller
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‘American Chaos’ Film Review: Day-Late, Dollar-Short Doc Traces Trump’s Rise to the White House
After endless profiles in The New York Times about What Trump Voters Really Think, the last thing we need is a movie on the same subject
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‘Mandy’ Film Review: Nicolas Cage Takes a Big Bite Out of This Mad, Metal Midnight Movie
Panos Cosmatos’ follow-up to “Beyond the Black Rainbow” is a death-metal album cover and van painting brought to ultraviolent life
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‘Unbroken: Path to Redemption’ Film Review: Low-Budget Sequel Oversells Its Message
This in-name-only follow-up to Angelina Jolie’s biopic accentuates the conversion narrative, pushing racism and slamming psychiatry along the way
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‘A Boy. A Girl. A Dream.’ Film Review: New Lovers Clash on Election Night 2016
Meagan Good and Omari Hardwick star in an underwritten one-take film that’s like like an irritating, combative “Before Sunrise”
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‘The Predator’ Film Review: Shane Black Further Dumbs Down This Sci-Fi/Horror Franchise
The worst movie in the “Predator” series that doesn’t have the words “Alien vs.” in the title
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‘The Children Act’ Film Review: Emma Thompson Grapples With Conscience in Sluggish Legal Drama
Ian McEwan adapts his own novel about a conflicted judge, but for all the beating gavels, there’s no pulse here
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‘Lizzie’ Film Review: Chloë Sevigny Makes the Infamous Killer a Rebel With a Cause
Sevigny and Kristen Stewart are homicidal lovers in a haunting tale of love and slaughter
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‘Where Hands Touch’ Film Review: Amandla Stenberg Packs Emotion in Earnest Holocaust Drama
Toronto Film Festival 2018: Director Amma Asante (“Belle”) shares an intimate story of Afro-German persecution during WWII
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‘The Land of Steady Habits’ Film Review: Nicole Holofcener Turns Her Sharp Eye Toward Masculine Identity Crises
Toronto Film Festival 2018: Ben Mendelsohn and Edie Falco star as unhappy suburbanites, in an “Ice Storm” for our age
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‘Hold the Dark’ Film Review: Frigid Missing-Child Thriller Disappoints
Toronto Film Festival 2018: This chilly Netflix crime drama feels like a letdown from the director of “Green Room” and “Blue Ruin”
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‘Green Book’ Film Review: Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali Take a Perilous Road Trip Through the Deep South
Toronto Film Festival 2018: “Dumb and Dumber” director Peter Farrelly gets serious with this fact-based look at a Bronx bouncer discovering the dangers of the Civil Rights-era South
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‘White Boy Rick’ Film Review: Real-Life Drug Saga Bolstered by Strong Performances
Even if Richie Merritt never acts again, he’s made an indelible mark with his naturalist turn as a teenage drug dealer and FBI informant
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‘Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy’ Film Review: Literary Hoax Makes for a Frustrating Film
Toronto Film Festival 2018: TIFF’s closing night film threatens to be overshadowed by the current controversy surrounding Asia Argento, who’s depicted (under a different name) in Justin Kelly’s drama starring Laura Dern and Kristin Stewart
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‘Woman at War’ Film Review: Goofy Icelandic Ecoterrorism Thriller Is a Beautiful Hoot
Toronto Film Festival 2018: Director Benedikt Erlingsson has a fabulous eye and a taste for deadpan absurdity
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‘Icebox’ Film Review: Child Immigrant Drama Takes Timely Look at Border Crisis
Toronto Film Festival 2018: Daniel Sawka’s film focuses on a 12-year-old boy detained by the U.S. after fleeing Central American gang violence
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‘A Simple Favor’ Film Review: Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively Mix Martinis and Murder in Disappointing Comedy-Mystery
Paul Feig’s cocktail of suburban noir and modern laughs misfires when its thriller elements ramp up
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‘Never Look Away’ Film Review: ‘Lives of Others’ Director Returns With Bold Tale of Art and Love
Toronto Film Festival 2018: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck tells a slow but beautiful story set in Germany in the middle of the 20th century
