movie reviews
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‘Snake Eyes’ Film Review: Henry Golding’s Charm Gets Lost in Pointless Prequel
This “G.I. Joe Origins” tale goes from muddled to murky to flat-out goofy
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‘Jolt’ Review: Kate Beckinsale Lets It All Out in Energetic Action Saga
Female rage gets results in this electrifying spin on familiar tropes
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‘How It Ends’ Film Review: It’s the End of the World as We Know It, and You’ll Feel Fine
Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones’ comedy is like Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia,” but without all the, um, melancholia
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‘Vortex’ Film Review: Cannes Winds Down With Thoughtful, Heartbreaking Look at Aging
Cannes 2021: Director Gaspar Noe usually tries to shock his audience, but this time he settles into an entirely different but also gripping register
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‘No Ordinary Man’ Film Review: Meta-Doc Deconstructs Story of Transmasculine Jazz Musician Billy Tipton
Through interviews and recreations, the filmmakers capture Tipton’s life and explore how and by whom the history of trans people gets told
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‘The Restless’ Film Review: Potent Belgian Drama Explores Family Torn Apart by Bipolarity
Cannes 2021: Damien Bonnard is riveting as an artist struggling with the condition, as is Leïla Bekhti as a wife trying to keep the family together
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‘Pig’ Film Review: Nicolas Cage Cooks Up One of His Finest Performances in Gourmet Vengeance Tale
Michael Sarnoski’s tale of a reclusive ex-chef out to retrieve his porcine pal mixes flavors you wouldn’t think would pair well, but they do
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‘Memoria’ Film Review: Tilda Swinton Stars in a Film From Another Planet
Cannes 2021: In Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s latest philosophical dreamscape, the actress channels David Bowie from “The Man Who Fell to Earth”
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‘Mama Weed’ Film Review: Isabelle Huppert’s a Dealer in Addictive French Crime Comedy
The French legend’s star power threads together tones of wit, danger and political substance
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‘The Story of My Wife’ Film Review: Old Style Euro-Pudding Epic Wears Out Its Welcome
Cannes 2021: Ildiko Enyedi’s art-house bling is artfully decorated and impeccably tailored, but nothing happens
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‘Space Jam 2’ Review: LeBron James Nets Nothing in Overstuffed Sequel
“A New Legacy” barely has jokes for the Looney Tunes, let alone the entire Warner Bros. cast of characters, who spend the film mostly just standing around
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‘Escape Room 2’ Review: Exciting, Illogical Sequel Sets New Elaborate Traps
‘Tournament of Champions’ might not make a lick of sense, but it’s a meticulously constructed thrill machine
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‘Deception’ Film Review: French Philip Roth Adaptation Is an Awful Slog to Sit Through
Cannes 2021: Despite the handsome production values, director Arnaud Desplechin’s talky drama is a postcard for archivists and a curio for obsessives
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‘Gunpowder Milkshake’ Film Review: Cool Casting Can’t Save ’90s-Style Thriller
The talents of Angela Bassett and Michelle Yeoh, to name a few, are wasted in a film that’s retro in the worst ways
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‘Petrov’s Flu’ Film Review: Provocative Russian Drama Is Exhilarating and Exhausting
Cannes 2021: Kirill Serebrennikov made a formidable piece of filmmaking that also uses its own virtuoso technique as a blunt-force tool against the audience
