‘Minari’ Film Review: Steven Yeun Leads Charming Drama About Korean Transplants in 1980s Arkansas
Yeun delivers another thoughtful performance in this effortlessly poetic tale of redefinition and resilience
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‘The New Mutants’ Film Review: A So-So X-Men Spinoff With Teen Heroes and a Horror Slant
This is one origin story that would have benefited from less table-setting
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‘Greyhound’ Film Review: Tom Hanks Battles Nazi Submarines in Old-Fashioned War Movie
Written by Hanks, directed by Aaron Schneider and originally scheduled to be released theatrically by Sony, the drama is a minimalist war film that treats combat as a job to be done
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A ‘Hamilton’ Newbie’s Take on the Disney+ Version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Powerful Musical
The filmed stage show feels like a powerful piece of work that has some dazzling moments but goes on for a very long time
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‘Hamilton’ Film Review: Can’t Afford Broadway? Now You Can Be in the Room Where It Happened
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 2015 hit musical heads to your TV screen with its stage roots very much intact
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‘What Do We Need to Talk About?’ Theater Review: Richard Nelson’s Apple Family Thrives in Quarantine
With the Public Theater closed, Nelson’s middle-aged, left-leaning siblings gather via Zoom
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‘Dolphin Reef’ Review: Underwater Neighbors Steal the Show in Disney Documentary
While Natalie Portman narrates the story of a young dolphin, the Disneynature film is at its most fascinating when it introduces us to creatures like the humphead parrotfish and peacock mantis shrimp
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‘Elephant’ Film Review: Meghan Markle Can’t Upstage the Cute Pachyderms in Disneynature Doc
Markle doesn’t have the authority you’d expect from a documentary narrator, but she fits with a film that greets a shot of elephants hitting the water hole with, “It’s time for a pool party!”
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’72 Miles to Go…’ Theater Review: 3 Citizens Plus 2 Immigrants Without Documentation Equal 1 Family
Despite missteps into the land of sitcoms, Hilary Bettis’ new play exposes an immigration disaster
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‘Endlings’ Theater Review: A Play About Writing a Play Gets Tangled Up in the Seaweed
Celine Song’s absurdist comedy mixes Edward Albee dramas with Esther Williams movies
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‘Unknown Soldier’ Theater Review: Michael Friedman’s Musical Explores the Fuzziness of Memory
Estelle Parsons stands out in a new musical by a composer who tragically died too young
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‘Girl From the North Country’ Broadway Review: Bob Dylan’s Songs Get Tangled Up in Melodrama
Conor McPherson stuffs so much lurid drama into a Duluth boarding house that this property needs to be condemned
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‘Coal Country’ Theater Review: A Steve Earle Musical With a Huge Carbon Footprint
A new show digs coal because, hey, somebody’s got to do life’s dirty work and destroy the planet
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‘The Perplexed’ Theater Review: Why the Really Rich Don’t Really Deserve America
Richard Greenberg skewers the wealthy, as well as his put-upon audience
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‘The Unsinkable Molly Brown’ Theater Review: Meredith Willson’s Classic Musical Gets a Major Rewrite
Beth Malone’s heroine is now a paragon of early-20th-century progressivism
