Alonso Duralde
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‘American Skin’ Film Review: Nate Parker’s Disappointing Sophomore Effort Mixes Mockumentary and Courtroom Drama
Venice 2019: Parker tackles the issue of police shootings, but the results are clunky and heavy-handed
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‘An Officer and a Spy’ Review: Roman Polanski Is No Emile Zola in This Listless Retelling of the Dreyfus Affair
Venice 2019: Any controversy over the director’s choice of subject is dissipated by the tepid results
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‘The Truth’ Film Review: Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche Grapple With Honesty and Each Other
Venice 2019: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s first non-Japanese film captures a mother-daughter relationship fraught with resentments
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‘Ready or Not’ Film Review: The Game of Hide and Seek’s Afoot in Twisty, Violent Dark Comedy
This perverse tale isn’t a total triumph, but it’s a savage delight all the same
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What’s New on DVD in August: ‘Charlie Says,’ ‘Shadow,’ ‘The Banana Splits Movie’ and More
Alonso Duralde’s monthly column spotlights the best Indie, foreign, doc, grindhouse, classic and TV releases on DVD and Blu-ray
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‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’ Film Review: Tom Holland Goes Abroad in Globetrotting Marvel Romp
This latest Spidey series continues to charm, as a teen road comedy periodically becomes a superhero saga
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‘Ophelia’ Film Review: Daisy Ridley Gives Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroine a Provocative Do-Over
The melancholy Dane’s beloved is no wilting flower in this lush, intelligent adaptation of Lisa Klein’s novel
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‘Toy Story 4’ Film Review: Woody and Company Return for a Sequel That’s No Buzz-Kill
It may not reach the emotional heights of “3,” but contemporary American animation’s gold standard remains untarnished
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‘Katie Says Goodbye’ Film Review: A Young Woman’s Destruction Served Up as Entertainment (Again)
First-time writer-director Wayne Roberts clearly empathizes with his young heroine, but ties her to the railroad tracks anyway
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‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ Film Review: Hollywood Finally Gets Kaiju Right
Director Michael Dougherty successfully takes the all-thriller-no-filler approach both to monsters and the human drama
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‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ Film Review: Sisters Hide From the World in Riveting Shirley Jackson Adaptation
Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra Daddario, Sebastian Stan and Crispin Glover are electrifying in Stacie Passon’s second feature
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Doris Day Appreciation: Sweetness and Light Met Grit and Tenacity, Both on Screen and Off
She was the sunniest of singers and actresses, but that sparkle came from a place of strength
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‘Detective Pikachu’ Film Review: Humans and Pokemon Pal Around in Overstuffed, Underwritten World
Live-action-plus-animation take on the popular game feels both ambitious and lazy, frenzied and sluggish
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‘Non-Fiction’ Film Review: Olivier Assayas Comically Mourns the Death of Literature
Venice 2018: Juliette Binoche co-stars in this witty drama that does for print what “Summer Hours” did for art
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What’s New on DVD in April: ‘If Beale Street Could Talk,’ ‘Destroyer,’ ‘Tickled’ and More
Alonso Duralde’s monthly column spotlights the best Indie, foreign, doc, grindhouse, classic and TV releases on DVD and Blu-ray
