‘Kiss Me, Kate’ Broadway Review: Kelli O’Hara and Will Chase Are So in Love
She’s a movie star slumming in her ex-husband’s second-rate production of the “Shrew.” Cole Porter and the Bard would approve.
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‘The Highwaymen’ Film Review: Woody Harrelson and Kevin Costner as the Cops Who Chase Bonnie and Clyde
SXSW 2019: John Lee Hancock’s film never lives up to its crackling opening action sequence
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‘Adopt a Highway’ Film Review: Ethan Hawke Soars in Logan Marshall-Green’s Meandering Directorial Debut
SXSW 2019: Hawke plays an ex-convict who’s finally gained his freedom after a 21-year jail sentence
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‘Be More Chill’ Broadway Review: This Coming-of-Age Musical Is a Real Pill to Swallow
An internet phenomenon, based on Ned Vizzini’s cult novel, arrives on Broadway with all the flavor of fast-food chicken. It’s crispy
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‘If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhf–a’ Theater Review: That Title Is a Problem
Muhf–a? Tori Sampson just lost her core audience for this cautionary tale about teens who think looks are everything
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‘Fleabag’ Theater Review: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Creates a Millennial Update on Bridget Jones and Carrie Bradshaw
The British actress-writer’s frank and hilarious one-woman show was the basis for a six-part Amazon Prime series
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‘Gloria Bell’ Film Review: Julianne Moore Shines Quietly in Remake of Chilean Drama
Oscar-winning director Sebastian Lelio (“A Fantastic Woman”) makes an English-language version of his exceptional 2013 Chilean film
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‘Three Faces’ Film Review: Once Again, Jafar Panahi Is Modest But Profound
The Iranian director is officially forbidden from making films for 20 years, but “Three Faces” is the latest exceptional work he’s made in the face of that ban
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‘The Cake’ Theater Review: ‘That ’70s Show’ Mom Debra Jo Rupp Plays a Lovable Bigot
Cute homophobes meet loving lesbians in a North Carolina bakery in Bekah Brunstetter’s sermon of a play
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‘Daddy’ Theater Review: Alan Cumming and Ronald Peet Discover Lust in a Bel-Air Pool
Regression and mutual exploitation are the hallmarks of an art-world affair in Jeremy O. Harris’ brilliant new play
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‘Leaving Neverland’ Brings Explosive Michael Jackson Accusations to Light
Dan Reed’s four-hour film focuses on two men and their families telling their stories in depth
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‘Superhero’ Theater Review: Tom Kitt and John Logan’s New Musical Creates an Extraordinary Ex-Bus Driver
Bryce Pinkham finds another eccentric/bizarre/screwed-up character to call his own
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‘Greta’ Film Review: Neil Jordan’s Psycho Stalker Flick Is Bloody Good Fun
Chloe Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert star in Jordan’s riff on horror-movie cliches
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‘Apollo 11’ Film Review: You Know How It Comes Out, But It’s Still a Hell of a Ride
Sundance 2019: Todd Douglas Miller’s documentary uses original footage of the moon mission that sometimes seems too vivid and too visceral to have come from the vaults
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‘Climax’ Film Review: Is It a Movie, or an LSD Trip?
Cannes 2018: Director Gaspar Noé unleashes a troupe of Europe’s most nimble dancers to vogue you, krump you and pop-lock you through one very bad trip
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‘Alice by Heart’ Theater Review: Lewis Carroll Gets Stuck in a London Tube in Duncan Sheik’s Musical
Another stage adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland” fails to re-create the magic of the original
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‘Boesman and Lena’ Theater Review: Athol Fugard’s Searing Look at Apartheid-Era South Africa Revisited
In director Yaël Farber’s deliberately discomfiting new revival, the 1969 drama plays less as history than as allegory
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‘Marys Seacole’ Theater Review: 2 Jamaican Nurses Bring Comfort to an Alien World
In Jackie Sibblies Drury’s new play, caregivers speak to each other across the centuries to find that little has changed
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‘Hurricane Diane’ Theater Review: Dionysus Returns as a Lesbian Landscaper
Madeleine George’s new comedy recalls Clare Boothe Luce’s “The Women” and Mary McCarthy’s “The Group”
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‘By the Way, Meet Vera Stark’ Theater Review: An Awkward Look Back at Early Black Hollywood
Lynn Nottage’s 2011 satire gets an uneven revival that veers into over-the-top farce
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‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Theater Review: Stephen Sondheim Steps Backward
The composer’s most famous flop is now shorter and cast with only six actors. It still doesn’t work
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‘Sea Wall/A Life’ Theater Review: Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge Go Solo Together
Revivals of minor plays by Nick Payne and Simon Stephens get the star treatment
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‘Switzerland’ Theater Review: Patricia Highsmith Takes Another Shot at Ripley
The author of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “Strangers on a Train” finds herself stranded in the Alps
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‘Mies Julie’ Theater Review: August Strindberg Tragedy Reimagined in South Africa
Yaël Farber’s updated version gets an uneven revival at Off Broadway’s Classic Stage Company
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‘The Dance of Death’ Theater Review: August Strindberg’s Toxic Marriage Revisited
Cassie Beck and Richard Topol play a couple who seem to revel in their bitterness in this Off Broadway revival
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‘The Light’ Theater Review: The Battle of the Sexes in the Post-Brett Kavanaugh Era
Loy A. Webb’s remarkable new play begins as a staged essay but ends up charting the disintegration of a very real romance
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‘Everybody Knows’ Film Review: Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem Shine in Strong, Disquieting Thriller
Asghar Farhadi’s dark drama stars Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, who have rarely gone to these emotional extremes in their work together
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‘My Fair Lady’ Broadway Review: Laura Benanti’s Eliza Doolittle Suffers a Midlife Crisis
This flower girl is all grown up and more than ready to stop selling flowers
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‘True West’ Broadway Review: Ethan Hawke Soars, Paul Dano Flits in Sam Shepard Drama
The two brothers in Shepard’s play are supposed to be different but not this different
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‘Eddie and Dave’ Theater Review: What a Drag! Van Halen Reimagined With Women as Classic Rockers
Amy Staats’ new comedy lampoons Van Halen by showing the men for what they really are
