‘Rambo: Last Blood’ Film Trailer: Sylvester Stallone’s One-Man Army Returns for More Dumb, Brutal Revenge Killing
Age cannot wither the action star’s thirst to showcase his slaughter skills, but this insane gorefest remains utterly pointless
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‘Ad Astra’ Film Review: Brad Pitt Journeys to the Edge of Space and the Depths of His Character’s Soul
Pitt’s aloof astronaut sets out to find the father who paved his literal and emotional pathways
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‘Don’t Be Nice’ Film Review: Slam Poetry Doc Follows Artists Finding Their Own Voices
The members of the Bowery Slam Poetry Team articulate their anguish, invisibility and trauma onstage
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‘Downton Abbey’ Film Review: Adorable PBS Aristocrats Win the Class War, Again
Satisfyingly cozy fan service struggles to keep up with dozens of “Downton” characters
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‘Where’s My Roy Cohn?’ Film Review: A Timely Doc About Lawyer, Power Broker and Trump Mentor
Matt Tyrnauer’s film is a delectable look at a despicable person
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‘Promare’ Film Review: Studio Trigger’s First Feature Is an Eye-Popping, Provocative Anime
First-time director Hiroyuki Imaishi creates a wild and compelling vision that’s both breathtaking fantasy and real-world relevant
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‘Loro’ Film Review: Paolo Sorrentino Spins a Gloriously Messy Yarn About Berlusconi
The director of “The Great Beauty” and “Youth” returns with a film that fluctuates between brash and silly, profound and misguided
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‘End of the Century’ Film Review: Lush Gay Romance Explores Paths Not Taken
Lucio Castro’s debut feels like a gay spin on Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy, all distilled into a single film
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‘La Llorona’ Film Review: Jayro Bustamante Examines Real-Life Historical Horror in Impressive Third Feature
Venice/Toronto Film Festivals 2019: The title may conjure up the supernatural, but this shrewd film contemplates the actual genocide perpetrated against Guatemala’s indigenous population
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‘Neither Wolf Nor Dog’ Review: White Hero Once Again Kidnaps a Native American Narrative
Apart from moving performances from Richard Ray Whitman and the late Dan Bald Eagle, this is another example of how not to tell a story about indigenous peoples
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‘Another Day of Life’ Film Review: Animated True Story Vacillates Between Documentary and Artificiality
An intense and violent look at war in Angola is undone by the slick, “Grand Theft Auto”-style animation aesthetic
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‘Riot Girls’ Film Review: Teens Battle It Out in a World Without Adults
There’s a fun, punk energy to this post-apocalyptic tale, but a too-short running time undercuts the stakes and the fun
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‘Monos’ Film Review: Evocative, Oblique Film Follows Kid Commandoes and Their Prisoners
One part “Lord of the Flies” and one part Mica Levi’s dissonant score results in a fascinating but sometimes vague coming of age
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‘The Sound of Silence’ Film Review: Peter Sarsgaard and Rashida Jones Excel in Soulful Tale of Sound and Connection
The clashing notes of New York’s rattle and hum stir an audiophile to explain human behavior in this touching drama
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‘Depraved’ Film Review: Larry Fessenden’s Latest Is a Mumblecore Frankenstein
The film answers the question no one asked: “What if the scientists who brought the dead back to life were immature jerks?”
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‘Hustlers’ Film Review: Jennifer Lopez Steals the Show in True Tale of Scamming Strippers
The story of dancers getting their piece of the 1% works more than it doesn’t, but it’s all about J. Lo
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‘True History of the Kelly Gang’ Film Review: Outlaw Epic Isn’t True, But It Packs a Punch
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Justin Kurzel’s period drama stars George Mackay, Russell Crowe, Charlie Hunnam and Nicholas Hoult
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‘Harriet’ Film Review: Kasi Lemmons’ Standard-Issue Harriet Tubman Biopic Wastes Big-Screen Opportunity
Toronto Film Festival 2019: We’ve waited too long for a Tubman movie (and for Lemmons to return to the director’s chair) but this one disappoints
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‘Chained for Life’ Film Review: Cult-Film-Within-a-FIlm Creates Haunting Meta-Narrative
Jess Weixler and Adam Pearson (“Under the Skin”) star in a movie about a movie where lines get blurred
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‘Ema’ Film Review: Pablo Larraín’s Latest Dances to Its Own Rhythms
Venice 2019: The “Jackie” director boldly uses music video aesthetics in setting a character study to a reggaeton beat
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‘The Painted Bird’ Film Review: Jerzy Kosiński Adaptation Is Gruesome, Poetic Epic of Inhumanity
Venice 2019: Anchored by breathtaking visuals and a powerful child performance, Václav Marhoul’s three-hour film is a worthy endurance saga
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‘Ms. Purple’ Film Review: Justin Chon’s Haunting Family Saga Explores Coping With Loss
The impending death of their father forces two siblings to assess their own lives in this beautiful drama from the “Gook” director
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‘Mosul’ Film Review: Russo Brothers Produce an Action-Packed Tale of Fighting ISIS
Venice 2019: Screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan makes his directorial debut about local Iraqi heroes out for vengeance
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‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice’ Review: Rock Doc Starts and Ends With the Music
Directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman use Ronstadt’s voice to tell her story, but that voice speaks loudest when she’s singing
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‘Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins’ Film Review: Vital, Hilarious Texas Pundit Remembered in Vivacious Documentary
There might be a lot of talking heads, but few heads talked as wittily or wisely as this legendary political columnist
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‘Babyteeth’ Film Review: Australian Doomed-Teen Dramedy Hides Its Tougher Questions Behind Frills and Filigree
Venice 2019: Director Shannon Murphy’s got style to burn, but an excess of it undercuts her characters and their dilemmas
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‘It Chapter Two’ Film Review: Little Moments Terrify in Effective Horror Sequel
Pennywise’s impersonation of Beverly’s abusive father generates more scares than all the CG insects money can buy
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‘Motherless Brooklyn’ Film Review: Edward Norton Mines the Rich Tradition of Film Noir
Telluride Film Festival: Director and star Norton adapts Jonathan Lethem’s novel in a film with echoes of “Chinatown,” “The Big Sleep” and many others
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‘Giants Being Lonely’ Film Review: Teen Baseballers Come of Age in the Shadow of Their Parents’ Errors
Venice 2019: Grear Patterson’s striking debut plays like a Terrence Malick memory piece without the distance of nostalgia
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‘Waves’ Film Review: Trey Edward Shults’ Moving Drama Lets Love Rule
Telluride Film Festival 2019: The film starring Sterling K. Brown and Kelvin Harrison Jr. is about a choice we all make: Do we hold onto hatred or do we let go of past anger?
