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‘Seriously Red’ Film Review: Shy Woman Becomes Her Best Self by Impersonating Dolly Parton
SXSW 2022: Krew Boylan co-writes and stars in this insightful comedy about becoming yourself by pretending to be someone else
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‘Great Freedom’ Film Review: Decades-Spanning Drama Explores Injustice of German Anti-Gay Laws
Franz Rogowski (“Transit”) stars as a man who spends his life behind bars for loving men
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‘The Sky Is Everywhere’ Film Review: Josephine Decker’s YA Adaptation Never Comes Together
Jandy Nelson’s screenplay, based on her novel, skims the surface of human connections and emotion
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‘Alice’ Film Review: Keke Palmer Escapes Slavery and Embraces Her Inner Pam Grier
Sundance 2022: Krystin Ver Linden’s directorial debut takes audiences from the horrors of the plantation to the liberation of 1973
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‘TikTok, Boom.’ Film Review: Doc Explores Both the Opportunities and the Downside of the Thirst-Trap App
Director Shalini Kantayya bypasses the obvious digs at online attention-seeking and instead explores TikTok’s more nefarious aspects
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‘The Pink Cloud’ Film Review: Bleakly Prophetic Film Predicted a World in Lockdown
There’s real skill on display in Iuli Gerbase’s debut feature, but right now might not be the time for a movie about people who can’t leave their apartment
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‘Last Words’ Film Review: Nick Nolte Finds Cinema at the End of the World in Clueless Apocalyptic Fable
Jonathan Nossiter creates an African protagonist to celebrate movie that are almost exclusively Western and white
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‘The Hand of God’ Film Review: Paolo Sorrentino’s Autobiographical Coming-of-Age Tale Sticks to the Shallow End
The “Great Beauty” director clearly wants his own “Amarcord,” but he seems to lack a point of view about his own origins
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‘Love and Fury’ Film Review: Doc on Native American Artists Overstretches and Underexplains
Two performers here could have served as the subject of a fascinating film, but director Sterlin Harjo casts too wide a net and ends up with little to show for it
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‘Little Girl’ Film Review: Sensitive Doc Examines the Life of a 7-Year-Old Trans Girl
Sébastien Lifshitz delicately handles his young subject and her mother as they struggle with teachers and doctors who don’t understand
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‘All Is Forgiven’ Review: Mia Hansen-Løve’s Knockout Debut Finally Reaches the US
This 2007 feature shows first signs of brilliance from the director of “Things to Come” and “Bergman Island”
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‘Minyan’ Film Review: Drama Vividly Portrays Religious Young Man’s Sexual Yearnings
Samuel H. Levine (Broadway’s “The Inheritance”) subtly but powerfully carries Eric Steel’s debut feature
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‘The Many Saints of Newark’ Film Review: ‘Sopranos’ Prequel Gilds the Lily
Awkward big-screen treatment proves the classic HBO series needs no embellishment
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‘The Capote Tapes’ Film Review: Truman Capote’s Friends and Frenemies Speak for Themselves in New Doc
George Plimpton’s recordings for his bio of Capote made it into print, but the film shows that hearing people speak packs more punch than reading them being quoted
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‘Dramarama’ Film Review: Theater Kids Throw One Last Pre-College Party in 1994
Writer-director Jonathan Wysocki’s debut is a tad overwritten, but a talented young cast makes the relationships feel vivid
