‘End of Sentence’ Film Review: John Hawkes and Logan Lerman Take an Affecting Irish Road Trip
In Elfar Adalsteins’ drama, the two actors prove to be subtle, naturalistic performers who spin gold out of settings that could easily seem clichéd
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‘The Vast of Night’ Film Review: Sci-Fi Thriller Feels Like the ’50s – And Like Today
Director Andrew Patterson uses the simple ingredients of two characters, extraterrestrial intrigue and a small-town period setting to create a gripping adventure
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‘The High Note’ Film Review: Dakota Johnson, Tracee Ellis Ross Music Biz Drama Is a Little Flat
The Nisha Ganatra film bounces around like a musical artist determined to show off the whole repertoire in the course of a few songs
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‘The Lovebirds’ Film Review: Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae Can’t Make This Race Amazing
Nanjiani and Rae are funny and likable people who try very hard to bring some life to this enterprise, but the action is too preposterous for the laughs to make much headway
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‘The Painter and the Thief’ Film Review: Art Heist Documentary Gets Downright Weird
The story of an artist who recruited the man who stole her paintings to pose for her, Benjamin Ree’s film is a fascinating, perplexing, occasionally annoying chronicle of a truly crazy relationship
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‘Inheritance’ Film Review: Lily Collins and Simon Pegg Face Off in Clunky Potboiler
The Vaughn Stein film acts as if it would like to be a meditation on power and guilt, but at heart it’s a pulpy thriller in a bespoke suit
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‘The Trip to Greece’ Film Review: Fourth Time’s Still a Charm for Steve Coogan-Rob Brydon Talkfest
Like the three previous “Trip” movies, the two men drive around a beautiful location, eat fabulous meals, talk about stuff and try to make each other laugh, often with dueling impersonations
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‘The Wolf House’ Film Review: Chilean Animated Film Depicts a Mind-Blowing Haunted House
Directors Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León mingle classic European fairytales in a potpourri of magical notes laden in eeriness
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‘Scoob!’ Film Review: Animated Scooby-Doo Reboot Starts by Making Fun of Itself
The film determined to have its cake and eat it, too – to give the kids an animated action mystery but also keep up a steady stream of inside jokes
