Alonso Duralde
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‘The Human Voice’ Film Review: Pedro Almodóvar and Tilda Swinton Speak Heartache Fluently
This adaptation of Cocteau’s play is a pandemic production, and Almodóvar’s English-language debut, but it’s pure Pedro
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What’s New on DVD in March: Wong Kar Wai, ‘Rick and Morty,’ ‘Fatale’ and More
Weather and/or the pandemic have you staying in? Alonso Duralde’s monthly column spotlights the best new DVDs and Blu-rays
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‘Petite Maman’ Film Review: Céline Sciamma Weaves a Delicate Tale of Mothers and Daughters
Berlin 2021: There’s a haunting, novella-like quality to the director’s follow-up to “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
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‘The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run’ Film Review: Third Time’s Still Charming for Big-Screen ‘SquarePants’
The TV hit once again cracks the code for feature-length fun, whatever your age or fandom level
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‘Coming 2 America’ Film Review: Eddie Murphy Plays the Hits in Rote Sequel
Nearly every joke from the first film gets retold or rerun in this super-safe, long-delayed follow-up
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‘Boogie’ Film Review: Eddie Huang’s Basketball Saga Plays Best Off the Court
The characters’ interpersonal dynamics are fascinating, complicated, and less likely to be mired in sports-movie clichés
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‘Chaos Walking’ Film Review: Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley Plod Through Limp Sci-Fi Saga
On a future colony, humans will be able to hear each other’s thoughts — but apparently those won’t be very interesting
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‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ Film Review: Disney Animated Epic Offers a Dynamic, Complex Saga
From dazzling visuals to grand-scale world-building to an extraordinary voice cast, this sweeping feature has it all
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‘Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell’ Film Review: Intimate Doc Recalls Both the Life and the Art of a Hip-Hop Legend
Emmett Malloy’s documentary cares about the musical craft of Notorious B.I.G. as much as it does the controversies
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‘The United States vs Billie Holiday’ Review: Lee Daniels’ History Lesson Mixes Anger and Gloss
It’s another look at J. Edgar Hoover’s war on Black America, told with old-movie sheen — and a definite lack of subtlety
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‘Tom & Jerry’ Film Review: Grating Cat-and-Mouse Comedy Puts the ‘Ow’ in ‘Meow’
How do you turn a nine-minute cartoon into a hybrid live action-animation feature film? Not like this.
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‘Cherry’ Film Review: Tom Holland Addiction Drama Unfolds in an All-Too-Familiar Way
The Russo brothers provide their Spider-Man a great acting opportunity, but their film feels familiar and facile
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‘The Mauritanian’ Film Review: Jodie Foster Fights for Justice in Sluggish Gitmo Drama
Even with an impressive line-up on both sides of the camera, post-9/11 abuses remain difficult to dramatize
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What’s New on DVD in February: ‘Tesla,’ ‘Collective,’ ‘Freaky’ and More
Cold weather and/or the pandemic have you staying in? Alonso Duralde’s monthly column spotlights the best new DVDs and Blu-rays
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‘Barb & Star’ Film Review: Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo Go to Cloud Cuckoo Land
“…Go to Vista Del Mar” plays by its own rules of absurdism and rides that wave all the way to shore