movie reviews
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‘Cheaper by the Dozen’ Film Review: Limp Third Adaptation Proves It’s Time to Put These Kids to Bed
Gabrielle Union plays a character so impressively vivid that we wonder why she’s married to — and yields the film to — an inert Zach Braff
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‘Rescued by Ruby’ Film Review: Kids Movie Features Industrious Cops, Lovable Dogs, and Dead Bodies
Director Katt Shea keeps the proceedings light and cute even when the K-9 division is sniffing out human remains
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‘Deep Water’ Film Review: Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas’ Marital Passion Goes to Dark Places
Director Adrian Lyne returns for his first film in decades with all his trashy, entertaining erotic-thriller impulses in effect
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‘X’ Film Review: Ti West Pays Homage to ’70s Sleaze in Stylish Slasher
SXSW 2022: There’s a killer on a porn-movie set, with lots of gore (provided by the effects wizards at WETA)
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‘Seriously Red’ Film Review: Shy Woman Becomes Her Best Self by Impersonating Dolly Parton
SXSW 2022: Krew Boylan co-writes and stars in this insightful comedy about becoming yourself by pretending to be someone else
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‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ Film Review: Nicolas Cage Is Nicolas Cage in Meta-Comedy
SXSW 2022: The star’s thoughtfully self-parodying performance aside, this film seems more interested in inside-baseball fan service than anything else
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‘Jujutsu Kaisen 0’ Film Review: Anime Prequel Offers Solid Action for All Plus Easter Eggs for Fans
You don’t have to know the anime and the manga to enjoy this adventure involving young sorcerers, but it helps
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‘The Lost City’ Film Review: Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum Cosplay ‘Romancing the Stone,’ Amiably
SXSW 2022: This action-comedy-romance never fully commits to the bit, but it offers fun along the way
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‘Spin Me Round’ Film Review: Alison Brie’s Dream Vacation to Italy Might Be a Nightmare
Dark comedy sends an American on Euro trip that will either be a broadening experience or a dangerous one
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‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Film Review: Michelle Yeoh Anchors Wild, Heartfelt Action Comedy
SXSW 2022: Yeoh contains multitudes, and so does The Daniels’ surreal but sweet follow-up to “Swiss Army Man”
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‘A Song for Cesar’ Film Review: Telling the History of a Labor Movement Through the Music It Inspired
Both sprawling and focused, this documentary tracks the many musicians and artists who supported Cesar Chavez’s fight for social justice
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What’s New on DVD/Blu-ray in March: ‘West Side Story,’ ‘The Godfather Trilogy,’ Ukraine Teens, and More
Alonso Duralde spotlights the month’s best new physical-media releases — because streaming only covers so much
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‘Turning Red’ Film Review: Pixar Captures the Explosion of Adolescence as Adorably Beastly
A young girl’s puberty manifests itself as a giant red panda that makes a great metaphor for a tale about daughters and mothers
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‘Asking For It’ Film Review: Kiersey Clemons Leads a Fierce Ensemble in Timely #MeToo Action Drama
Eamon O’Rourke’s intense tale has the same cult-movie zeitgeist energy that turned “Promising Young Woman” into a sleeper hit
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‘Huda’s Salon’ Film Review: Politics and Patriarchy Haunt Palestinian Woman in Tense Thriller
“Paradise Now” director Hany Abu-Assad returns with another tale of moral complexity in the Middle East