‘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
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‘Capone’ Film Review: Tom Hardy Plays Aging Gangster in Bonkers Blood-Soaked Biopic
You haven’t seen Al Capone until you’ve seen him chomping on a carrot and wielding a machine gun while wearing a droopy diaper
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‘Have a Good Trip’ Film Review: It’s All About the Celebrity Drug Stories
There’s more to the Netflix documentary than Sting, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Bourdain and A$AP Rocky telling tales about their use of hallucinogens — but not much more
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‘Spaceship Earth’ Film Review: Biosphere 2 Documentary Tells a Story Too Strange Not to Be True
For all their theatrics, the people involved in this legendarily disastrous experiment were correct in their warnings about climate change
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‘Rewind’ Film Review: Family Tale of Sexual Abuse Is Wrenching and Essential
Sasha Joseph Neulinger’s devastating film tells a story of abuse that spans generations
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‘How to Build a Girl’ Film Review: This Time, Beanie Feldstein Comes of Age as a Mean British Rock Critic
Based on Caitlin Moran’s semi-autobiographical novel about becoming a teenage rock writer, the film is like “Almost Famous” if Cameron Crowe had been British, female and much snottier
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‘Clementine’ Film Review: Indie Relationship Drama Struggles to Be Involving
The quiet film starring Sydney Sweeney and Otmara Marrero threatens to turn into a love story or a coming-of-age, sexual-awakening drama, but it’s more subdued than that
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‘Becoming’ Film Review: Michelle Obama Plays Nice in Celebratory Documentary
In the Netflix film, the former first lady reserves her harshest words not for Donald Trump but for the black, young and women voters who helped him win the presidency by staying home
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‘Blue Story’ Film Review: Gang Warfare Gets Shakespearean in British Urban Drama
Writer-director Andrew Onwubolu, aka Rapman, regularly interrupts his narrative to offer a rap narration of what just transpired and why it matters
