Fran Hoepfner
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‘In Her Hands’ Review: Doc Takes a Tense But Shallow Look at Afghanistan’s Youngest Female Mayor
This portrait of Zarifa Ghafari from executive producers Hillary and Chelsea Clinton tells more than it shows – and it doesn’t do enough of either
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‘Bad Axe’ Review: Michigan Documentary Paints a Portrait of Life During COVID
A family restaurant pushes back against racism and a pandemic to survive
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‘Peaceful’ Review: Mortality Movie Gets Mired in Messaging
A strong cast — including Catherine Deneuve and oncologist-turned-thespian Gabriel Sara — can do only so much with yet another cancer tale
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‘The Estate’ Review: Money Makes Everything Worse in This All-Star Black Comedy
Tale of voracious would-be heirs lacks the courage to commit to its own nastiness
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‘The Good Nurse’ Review: Jessica Chastain Catches a Killer in Tense Medical Mystery
Eddie Redmayne balances this two-hander as a serial killer in scrubs
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‘To Leslie’ Review: Andrea Riseborough Shines in Good-Hearted, If Conventional, Redemption Story
A disgraced lottery-winner hits rock bottom but finds the opportunity to work her way back to life
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‘The Silent Twins’ Review: Biopic on British Sisters Is Visually Inventive But Dramatically Lacking
The director of “The Lure” loads on the style and flair, even when it reduces its mentally-ill heroines to vehicles for fantasy sequences
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‘True Things’ Film Review: Ruth Wilson Utterly Commits to Discomfiting Romantic Drama
Tom Burke (“The Souvenir”) once again plays the worst guy that a woman can’t help falling for
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‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ Film Review: Thriller-Comedy Offers a Trauma Dumping for the Ages
The victims are smug and social-media–obsessed, but this thriller could stand to be even nastier
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‘Girl Picture’ Film Review: Finnish Coming-of-Age Film Captures the Mood of Teenage Life
Three girls, three Fridays, and a thoughtful, funny, empathetic look at lives in flux
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‘Mack & Rita’ Film Review: Diane Keaton Plays a Young Woman’s Old Soul in Charming Comedy
An ensemble cast bolsters this farce, which plays out as the best, most necessary brand of silly
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‘How to Please a Woman’ Film Review: Aussie Sex Comedy Doesn’t Know What It Wants
The film can’t decide whether it’s celebrating or mocking the erotic desires of middle-aged women
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‘The Killer’ Film Review: Korean Thriller Can’t Escape Tired Action-Movie Tropes
The plot wavers between the familiar and the baffling, but the action delivers
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‘Brian and Charles’ Film Review: Man and Robot Make a Hilarious Pair in Winning Buddy Comedy
This expansion of a short film is something of a one-joke premise, but it’s a big-hearted tale about finding your way in the world
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‘You Can Live Forever’ Film Review: Queer Love Blooms Amid Religious Repression
Tribeca Festival 2022: Directors Mark Slutsky and Sarah Watts shine a warm light into a Jehovah’s Witnesses community