Robert Abele
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‘Not Okay’ Film Review: Quinn Shephard’s Tangy Influencer Satire Misses the Mark
The talented writer-director’s sophomore effort awkwardly critiques internet fame as a coping mechanism
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‘Citizen Ashe’ Film Review: Arthur Ashe Doc Movingly Chronicles Tennis Champ and Human Rights Activist
A wealth of archival footage and a powerful thematic thread of political evolution give power to this sports documentary
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‘A Man of Integrity’ Film Review: Iranian Corruption Drama Bristles With Dissidence
Mohammad Rasoulof is no stranger to Iran’s injustices, and his searing 2017 film finally getting a US release only intensified his persecution back home
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‘Space Oddity’ Film Review: Kyra Sedgwick’s Family Drama About a Cosmos-Obsessed Son Never Lifts Off
Tribeca Festival 2022: First-time feature director has a light touch, but she constantly prioritizes the cuddly over the emotionally complex
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‘Turn Every Page’ Film Review: Insightful Doc Captures Long Partnership of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
Editor Robert Gottlieb, 91, and LBJ biographer Caro, 86, remain a literary dynamic duo after a 50-year-plus collaboration
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‘I’m Charlie Walker’ Film Review: Black Trucker’s Wild Life Story Gets Slipshod Biopic Treatment
Despite a magnetic turn by Mike Colter as the titular cleanup boss for a famous 1971 San Francisco oil spill, this amateurish indie fails to ignite
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‘Hustle’ Film Review: Adam Sandler Hoops Drama Plays Solid B-Ball
Director Jeremiah Zagar (“We the Animals”) mixes the actor’s doofus and talented-performer sides in a compelling, cliché-avoiding sports tale
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‘Men’ Film Review: Jessie Buckley and All the Rory Kinnears Populate Alex Garland’s Eccentric Horror
Even with Kinnear’s eerie-versatility flex, this arty creeper never melds its themes and its terrors into a satisfying whole
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‘The French’ Film Review: Reissued Sports Doc Serves a Spirited Look at Tennis’ Golden Age
William Klein goes behind the net in 1981 with Borg, McEnroe, Navratilova, Noah and more
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‘The Innocents’ Film Review: Chilling Norwegian Thriller Gives Lonely Kids Supernatural Powers
“Worst Person in the World” co-writer Eskil Vogt finds moral complexity in his unnerving child’s-perspective scenario
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‘Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen’ Film Review: The Making of ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ 50 Years Later
Daniel Raim tracks the miracle of miracles that turned the Broadway hit into a film that remains one of the screen’s greatest musical adaptations
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‘Dear Mr. Brody’ Film Review: Engrossing Doc Unearths Bizarre Tale of a Hippie Millionaire
“Tower” director Keith Maitland finds what’s strange and stirring in a rich kid’s bold giveaway, and the need it revealed
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‘a-ha: The Movie’ Film Review: Modest Documentary Takes on Norwegian Pop Legends
The Europop group behind “Take On Me” celebrates its 40th anniversary, but this doc doesn’t offer enough for non-fans
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‘¡Viva Maestro!’ Film Review: Gustavo Dudamel Documentary Faces the Music of Political Upheaval
A lively if incomplete snapshot of a groundbreaking conductor’s efforts to support the idea of music fostering social change
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‘Death on the Nile’ Film Review: Kenneth Branagh’s 2nd Poirot Outing Makes for a Plusher Puzzler
Upstream, upscale whodunit from the Agatha Christie canon sails smoothly but occasionally goes overboard