‘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
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‘Arkansas’ Film Review: Clark Duke’s Black Comedy Could Really Use a Big, Weird Audience
Clark Duke’s Dixie noir with Liam Hemsworth and Vince Vaughn was scheduled to premiere at SXSW, but now it must bring its deadpan absurdities to an isolation-friendly release
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‘The Half of It’ Film Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ Gets a Gay High School Spin
The Tribeca-winning film by writer-director Alice Wu takes the 120-year-old story to high school and mixes in emojis, diversity, immigration, LGBT issues and lots of other stuff
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‘All Day and a Night’ Film Review: Ashton Sanders and Jeffrey Wright Sing the Inner City Blues
“Black Panther” co-writer Joe Robert Cole directs an urban drama imbued with a steadfast fatalism
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‘Bull’ Film Review: Annie Silverstein Finds Signs of Life in Numb Characters
Actors Amber Havard and Rob Morgan make us feel for characters who themselves don’t want to feel
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‘Deerskin’ Film Review: Jean Dujardin Is Dangerously Charming in Weirdo Western
Director Quentin Dupieux whips up a dark love story about a man and a vintage leather jacket with a mind of its own
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‘My Darling Vivian’ Film Review: Lovely Portrait Tells the Missing Side of the Johnny Cash Story
The sensitive documentary focuses on Vivian Liberto, who spent much of her life struggling in the shadow of her famous first husband
