movie reviews
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‘Antlers’ Film Review: Mythological Horror Tale Heavy on Drama, Light on Excitement
Scott Cooper’s arboreal monster movie is suspenseful and well-acted — but where’s the fun?
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‘Labyrinth of Cinema’ Film Review: Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Head-Spinning History Lesson
The late filmmaker’s final work is an extravagant message of peace to a world forever at war
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‘Bulletproof’ Film Review: Provocative School-Shooting Doc Ultimately Both-Sides the Issue
The film offers an unsettling look at gun culture but never indicts America’s culture of violence
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‘A Mouthful of Air’ Film Review: Mental Illness Drama Bites Off More Than It Can Chew
Amanda Seyfried stars as a writer recovering from a suicide attempt in a tidy character study that never really digs into her emotional instability
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‘Army of Thieves’ Film Review: Euro Heist Caper Feels Crushingly Generic
“Army of the Dead” prequel has all of the mishmash action of a Zack Snyder spinoff without any of the idiosyncratic charms of a Zack Snyder movie
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‘Dune’ Film Review: Huge Sci-Fi Epic Is Relentlessly Dark But Thrilling
Timothée Chalamet stars in Denis Villeneuve’s dazzling and frustrating take on Frank Herbert’s classic 1965 novel
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‘Ron’s Gone Wrong’ Film Review: Derivative Cartoon Bobbles Message About Tech Drawbacks
This film wants to warn kids about the dangers of 24/7 connectivity — but it also wants young viewers to want their own Ron robot
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‘Suzanna Andler’ Film Review: Charlotte Gainsbourg Plays Both Innocent and Manipulative as Unsatisfied Wife
Benoît Jacquot adapts his mentor Marguerite Duras’ play, honoring her rich prose and timeless observations about class and relationships
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‘Found’ Film Review: Doc Follows U.S. Adoptees Searching for Their Biological Parents in China
“Step” director Amanda Lipitz scores again with this look at a trio of young women affected by the “One Child” policy
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‘The Last Duel’ Film Review: Matt Damon’s Medieval Hero Outshines Ridley Scott’s Muddled Mystery
Great performances and stunning cinematography can’t save a would-be “Rashomon” that forfeits its ambiguity
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‘Halloween Kills’ Film Review: Michael Myers Lives to Kill Yet Again in Effective Sequel
Jamie Lee Curtis’s Laurie is joined by characters we haven’t seen since the 1978 original, as Haddonfield fights back against its collective nightmare
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‘Bergman Island’ Film Review: Tim Roth and Vicky Krieps Star in Light and Airy Ingmar Bergman Riff
Mia Hansen-Løve has created a Russian nesting doll of a movie, commenting on itself while throwing manna to the cinephile masses
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‘The Velvet Underground’ Film Review: Todd Haynes Makes an Immersive and Essential Rock Doc
He may not have a lot of concert footage to draw from, but Haynes turns his first documentary into a performance
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‘Fever Dream’ Film Review: Unsettling Film Uncovers Horrors in Both the Material and Supernatural Worlds
From parenting to the environment, director and co-writer Claudia Llosa finds dread in a seemingly bucolic locale
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‘The First Wave’ Film Review: Harrowing, Intimate Documentary Revisits the Beginning of the Pandemic
Hamptons International Film Festival 2021: Matthew Heineman unflinchingly captures the horror of the moment and the steadfast labors of health-care professionals at one New York hospital
