Fran Hoepfner
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‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3’ Review: The Portokalos Family Goes to Greece
Nia Vardalos directs her famous fictional family on a vacation of epic proportions
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‘The Equalizer 3’ Review: Denzel Washington-Led Reboot Heads to Italy and Finally Cuts Loose
Robert McCall takes on the Neapolitan mob in director Antoine Fuqua’s three-quel
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‘Heart of Stone’ Review: Gal Gadot Anti-AI Spy Thriller Feels Algorithmic
Tom Harper’s action caper for Netflix treads on familiar, albeit globe-trotting, territory
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’80 for Brady’ Review: Female Friendship Comedy Bolsters Shiny NFL Propaganda Piece
The quartet of stars deliver as a pack of real-life football-obsessed friends — and even Tom Brady comes off with some star quality
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‘Maybe I Do’ Review: All-Star Rom-Com Makes You Wish They Hadn’t
The offspring of two failed marriages consider tying the knot, but among all six characters there’s not a single recognizable human being
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‘Victim/Suspect’ Review: Exploitative Doc Celebrates Journalists Instead of Talking About Justice
Sundance 2023: That these stories are worth being told is inarguable, but is this the proper lens to go about it?
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‘Judy Blume Forever’ Review: Doc Proves an Writer’s Output Can Be More Memorable Than Their Biography
Sundance 2023: If only this celebratory film serviced its subject with the nuance that novelist Blume has brought to her work
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‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’ Review: Conventional Doc Takes an Immersive Look at an Enduring Star
Sundance 2023: The latest from Lana Wilson (“Miss Americana,” “After Tiller”) demonstrates there’s more than beauty behind her subject’s cultural staying power
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‘The Seven Faces of Jane’ Review: Anthology Film Reveals Many Faces of Gillian Jacobs, to Little Avail
The Roman Coppola–produced project lacks the variation and surprise that the exquisite-corpse format so often offers
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‘Wildcat’ Film Review: Young Veteran and Baby Ocelot Heal Each Other in Moving Nature Doc
First-time filmmakers go deep into the Peruvian jungle for tale of redemption
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‘Nanny’ Review: Chilling Drama Weaves Haunting Character Study of a Caregiver
Anna Diop’s turn as an overqualified and beleaguered au pair stands out in Nikyatu Jusu’s ambitious but flawed debut feature
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‘Mindcage’ Review: Martin Lawrence Thriller Gets Stuck in Its Own Logic Trap
Clichéd serial-killer tale aspires to follow in the footsteps of “Silence of the Lambs” and TV’s “Hannibal” but goes nowhere
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‘Something From Tiffany’s’ Review: The Sparkle Is Missing From This Holiday Rom-Com
Even the charm of Zoey Deutch and Kendrick Sampson can’t elevate this run-of-the-mill, but beautifully mounted, Christmas love story
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‘Mickey: The Story of a Mouse’ Review: Disney Doc Explores Character, Icon, Ubiquitous Mascot
Interesting exploration of a global phenomenon goes out of its way to let Disney (the man and the company) off the hook
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‘She Said’ Review: Weinstein Scandal Makes for Stirring, Sometimes Hokey, Journalism Drama
Screen adaptation of the best-selling book mostly succeeds at recreating the investigation that helped kickstart #MeToo