Dan Callahan
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‘Swan Song’ Film Review: Udo Kier Dazzles as a Hairdresser Called Back for One Last Coif
Todd Stephens’ comedy remembers LGBT history’s bad old days while acknowledging a more enlightened present
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‘Pray Away’ Film Review: Powerful Documentary Explores ‘Ex-Gay’ Movement
Survivors relate tales of horror from homophobic religious groups, and it’s clear they’re happy to be free of this oppression
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‘Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story’ Film Review: Tell-All Novelist Kept Her Own Sorrows Private
A new documentary goes beyond the shoulder pads and leopard prints to examine a writer fighting her way out of sister Joan’s shadow
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‘Wolfgang’ Film Review: Puck’s Culinary Triumphs and Personal Losses Served Up in Tasty Doc
“Jiro Dreams of Sushi” director David Gelb offers a rich portrait of the man behind Spago (and a million frozen pizzas)
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‘The Kids’ Film Review: Stars of the 1995 Indie Hit Finally Speak for Themselves
Tribeca 2021: The young subjects of Larry Clark’s controversial film call out the director who, they say, exploited their youth and inexperience
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‘Changing the Game’ Film Review: Trans Sports Doc Has the Power to Change Minds
Documentary about three high-school transgender athletes doesn’t merely preach to the choir about a controversial issue
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‘Two of Us’ Film Review: Older-Lesbian Love Story Doesn’t Hold Together
A widow can’t tell her children about her longtime relationship with another woman — for reasons the movie never make clear
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‘Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn’ Film Review: 2019’s Second Cohn Documentary Flails in Too Many Directions
Director Ivy Meeropol, granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, tries to cram in an excess of information, allowing her subject to elude her
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‘Almost Love’ Film Review: Gay Couple Works Out Issues in Overpopulated, Underwritten Comedy
Too many characters with not enough depth populate this NYC comedy, but Patricia Clarkson’s all-too-brief cameo steals the show
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‘Scream, Queen!’ Film Review: How Mark Patton Battled HIV, Hollywood Homophobia, and Freddy Krueger
“My Nightmare on Elm Street” documentary tracks the actor’s legacy as horror’s first male “final girl”
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‘The Times of Bill Cunningham’ Film Review: Documentary on Famous Photographer Lacks Focus
There’s a lot in the life of the legendary “fashion historian” that this choppy film seems unwilling or unable to explore
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‘After Parkland’ Film Review: Documentary Follows Activists Forged in Tragedy
This examination of the aftermath of a school shooting sometimes takes too broad a view, but the film remains poignant
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‘The Turning’ Film Review: Mackenzie Davis Grapples With Ghosts and an Unflattering Hairdo
This lackluster adaptation of “The Turn of the Screw” isn’t going to make anyone forget earlier, better versions
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‘Cunningham’ Film Review: 3D Dance Documentary Celebrates Revolutionary Choreographer
Not every performance piece in Alla Kovgan’s film works on the big screen, but the ones that do make this a must-see for dance enthusiasts
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‘Gay Chorus Deep South’ Film Review: Traveling Choirs Shake Up Southern Gentility With Direct Confrontation
Performers from San Francisco and Oakland invade the Bible Belt with the hope of changing hearts and minds with song