Reviews
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‘The Luckiest Man in America’ Review: Paul Walter Hauser Gives a Winning Game Show Performance
TIFF 2024: Spinning a yarn about a contestant on 1980s competition series “Press Your Luck,” Samir Oliveros’ film can’t quite win it all — and that’s OK
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‘Vice Is Broke’ Review: A Messy Documentary Portrait of a Media Empire’s Rise and Fall
TIFF 2024: Like the publication itself, Eddie Huang’s doc offers strong insights — alongside spectacle
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‘Nutcrackers’ Review: Ben Stiller Makes Acting Return to Roll in the Mud, Pull Heartstrings With Unruly Kids
TIFF 2024: David Gordon Green’s comedy is sappy as heck and not as funny as you’d expect, but it sure does have heart
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‘The Front Room’ Review: A24’s Monster-in-Law Nightmare Strikes Unlikely Comic Gold
Brandy Norwood and Kathryn Hunter are dynamite in Max and Sam Eggers’ horror-comedy
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‘April’ Review: Abortion Drama Is a Singular Horror Show
Venice Film Festival: Director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s distinct film follows an OB-GYN who performs illegal abortions in Georgia
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‘The Perfect Couple’ Review: Nicole Kidman Keeps Her Must-Watch Murder Series Streak Alive on Netflix
The whodunnit adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s novel is the ideal late-summer binge
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‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Review: Joaquin Phoenix Is Daring, Pathetic in Todd Phillips’ Impressively Odd Sequel
Venice Film Festival: The ambitious musical sequel confronts and challenges Phillips’ own Oscar-winning film
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‘Rebel Ridge’ Review: Jeremy Saulnier’s Masterful Netflix Film Is a Sharp, Exhilarating Thrill Ride
Aaron Pierre, AnnaSophia Robb and Don Johnson co-star in an exhilarating Netflix movie that doesn’t ask you to turn your brain off
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‘Queer’ Review: Daniel Craig Boozes and Cruises in Luca Guadagnino’s Transportive Lust Story
Venice Film Festival: The James Bond actor perfects the art of longing in the “Call Me by Your Name” filmmaker’s William S. Burroughs adaptation
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‘The Room Next Door’ Review: Pedro Almodóvar Doesn’t Quite Find the Life in Contemplating Death
Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore join the Spanish filmmaker for a series of monologues on mortality
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‘English Teacher’ Review: Brian Jordan Alvarez’s FX Series Turns Hot-Button Politics Into Comedy Gold
The show effortlessly juggles big ideas, social commentary and character dynamics as one of the year’s best new comedies
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‘Wolfs’ Review: George Clooney and Brad Pitt. That’s It. That’s the Movie.
Venice Film Festival: The “Ocean’s Eleven” stars reunite for a caper with more star power than real power
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‘From Darkness to Light’ Review: Documentary Proves That Yes, Jerry Lewis’ Holocaust Movie Really Was Terrible
Venice Film Festival: Michael Lurie and Eric Friedler’s film breaks down the tortured journey of “The Day the Clown Cried”
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‘The Brutalist’ Review: Brady Corbet’s Epic Charts Sweeping Immigrant Story
Venice Film Festival: Adrien Brody anchors this three-and-a-half-hour treatise on American ambition
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‘The Piano Lesson’ Brings Another Powerful August Wilson Play to the Screen
Telluride Film Festival: Samuel L. Jackson anchors Malcolm Washington’s film, which confronts generational history and pain
