movie reviews
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‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’ Review: Conventional Doc Takes an Immersive Look at an Enduring Star
Sundance 2023: The latest from Lana Wilson (“Miss Americana,” “After Tiller”) demonstrates there’s more than beauty behind her subject’s cultural staying power
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‘The Disappearance of Shere Hite’ Review: Doc Traces the Work and Woes of a Sexual Revolutionary
Sundance 2023: This compelling examination of Hite’s life is less a mystery and more a look at how feminists get manhandled by the media patriarchy
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‘To Live and Die and Live’ Review: Alienated Filmmaker Can’t Go Home Again in Grim Drama
Sundance 2023: Writer-director Qasim Basir leaves a lot of promising plot threads and character elements on the table in his latest feature
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‘Women Talking’ Review: Sarah Polley’s Searing Drama Contemplates Revenge and Forgiveness
The sexually-abused members of a religious community get to decide what happens next, and the results are riveting
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‘The Pod Generation’ Review: Creepy Futuristic Satire Looks Great, Gets Tiring
Sundance Film Festival 2023: Sophie Barthes’ film with Emilia Clarke and Chiwetel Ejiofor is better at creating a brave new world than telling a story inside that world
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‘Little Richard: I Am Everything’ Review: Documentary Celebrates Troubled Rock Icon
Sundance Film Festival 2023: Lisa Cortés’ film loves its subject without denying his messy contradictions
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‘L’Immensità’ Review: Penelope Cruz Raises a Trans Son Amid 1970s Italy in Exquisite Drama
Sundance 2023: Trans filmmaker Emanuele Crialese playfully and poignantly tells his story without dipping into dogma
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‘Kim’s Video’ Review: Pursuit of a Legendary VHS Archive Becomes a True-Life Comic Mystery
Sundance 2023: David Redmon and Ashley Sabin’s documentary celebrates physical media while bumping up against shady characters and foreign bureaucracy
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‘It’s Only Life After All’ Review: Indigo Girls Doc Leaves More Than One Question Unanswered
Sundance 2023: This portrait of the folk-rock duo would have benefited from the contemplative penetration of their best songs
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‘Beautiful Beings’ Review: Delinquent Drama Delves Too Often Into the Tried and True
Iceland’s Oscar entry becomes most effective when its tale of neglected youth dips into magical realism
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‘The Son’ Review: Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern Battle Pain and Guilt in Tough Look at Teen Depression
Director Florian Zeller once again explores mental illness in a bolder, less focused follow-up to “The Father”
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‘Missing’ Review: Stand-Alone ‘Searching’ Sequel Delivers More Digital Hunt-and-Peck Thrills
The online world still proves fertile for excitement and intrigue in this fast-paced mystery built from digitized footage, video chats and browser windows
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‘Only in Theaters’ Review: Documentary Celebrates the Family Behind LA’s Laemmle Arthouse Chain
Raphael Sbarge’s film plays more effectively as a portrait of exhibitor Greg Laemmle than as a valentine to the moviegoing experience
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‘That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Movie’ Review: Adaptation of Anime TV Series Underwhelms
Some fans might enjoy the self-contained story, but the big-screen “Scarlet Bond” tale lacks many of the show’s pleasures
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‘In From the Side’ Review: Meandering Gay Rugby Romance Goes Into Overtime
Writer-director Matt Carter throws in lots of sex and scrums to divert from his underwritten central couple
