Reviews
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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
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‘Martha’ Review: Don’t Expect Martha Stewart to Get All Emotional in Her New Documentary
Telluride Film Festival: R.J. Cutler gets around the walls erected by his subject in a doc about the iconic lifestyle maven
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‘The End’ Review: Are You Ready for a Post-Apocalyptic Musical? Tilda Swinton Is
Telluride Film Festival: Joshua Oppenheimer’s dystopian toe-tapper joins “Emilia Perez” and “Joker: Folie à Deux” as one of the weirdest triptychs in recent cinema
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‘The Order’ Review: A Paunchy Jude Law Dominates Neo-Nazi Drama
Venice Film Festival: Director Justin Kurzel’s most accomplished work to date offsets broody fatalism against natural splendor
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‘Nickel Boys’ Brings Searing Tale of Injustice to Telluride
Telluride Film Festival: RaMell Ross’ adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel uses a unique cinematic sensibility to tell this gut-wrenching story
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‘The Friend’ Review: Naomi Watts, Bill Murray and a Big Dog Explore Love and Loss
Telluride Film Festival: The film from David Siegel and Scott McGehee is suffused with a sadness that it aims to carry lightly
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‘AfrAId’ Review: Chris Weitz’s Tech-Scare Thriller Says AI Is the Worst
An algorithm takes over John Cho and Katherine Watertson’s lives in a modest return to Blumhouse basics
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‘Babygirl’ Review: Nicole Kidman Goes Dom-Com for Safe, Commercial Kink
Venice Film Festival: The A24 film is a descendant of “Fifty Shades” without much bite
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‘Disclaimer’ Review: Cate Blanchett’s Life Implodes in Alfonso Cuarón’s Twisted Apple Thriller
Venice Film Festival: The Oscar-winning “Roma” filmmaker writes and directs all seven episodes with a pair of esteemed DPs in Emmanuel Lubezki and Bruno Delbonnel
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‘One to One: John & Yoko’ Review: Odd, Chaotic Documentary Explores a Dizzying Time for John Lennon
Venice 2024: The filmmakers have made a bracing, scattered and somewhat revelatory look at a period that’ll go down as a misstep for the Smart Beatle
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‘Slingshot’ Review: In Space, No One Can Hear You Yawn
Just because this Casey Affleck-led thriller sticks the landing doesn’t mean the journey is worth your time
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‘Reagan’ Review: Embarrassing Presidential Biopic Treats Dennis Quaid’s POTUS as the Second Coming
Jon Voight costars in what may be the most tedious presidential biopic in 80 years
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‘September 5’ Review: Can Journalists Be the Heroes in a Story of Deadly Terrorism?
Venice Film Festival: Tim Fehlbaum’s drama about the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics finds strength in dark rooms, unlikely protagonists and moral dilemmas
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‘Maria’ Review: Angelina Jolie Embraces the Crazy in Dreamlike Maria Callas Drama
Venice Film Festival: Pablo Larraín follows his films about Jackie Kennedy and Princess Diana with another dark fantasia about an iconic woman