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‘Hedda’: Nia DaCosta Threw a Lavish Party I Desperately Wanted to Leave
DaCosta’s update of ‘Hedda Gabler’ is an exhausting whirlwind of deception, lust, and status.
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‘Ballad of a Small Player’ Overplays a Weak Hand
The bluster and bombast of Edward Berger’s direction can’t overcome a cliché-ridden, silly script.
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‘Anniversary’: A Knockout Cast Can’t Salvage Jan Kosama’s Poorly Drawn Autocracy
The dramatic thriller features a collection of amazing performances, but they’re undercut by a bland setting.
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‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’ Has Too Much Love for The Boss to Respect Him
The film never takes a single chance as it celebrates the creative risks and emotional vulnerability Bruce Springsteen showed on ‘Nebraska.’
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‘Orwell: 2+2=5’: That’s Totalitarianism, Alright
Raoul Peck’s documentary uses Orwell’s writings to explain totalitarianism but does little to expand or unpack the famous author’s observations.
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Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Shambles Like a Shadow of His Better Creations
The scariest aspect of his adaptation is that one of our best directors may have run out of things to say.
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‘Good Fortune’: We’re Going to Need a Miracle to Solve This Affordability Crisis
Aziz Ansari’s light comedy may come to familiar conclusions, but sometimes it’s enough to just feel seen.
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‘It Was Just an Accident’: Jafar Panahi’s Brilliant Revenge Story Explores the Prisons We Create
The Iranian director, a victim of his country’s detention policies, wrestles with the impossibility of catharsis.
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‘The Perfect Neighbor’: How America Makes a Recipe for Misery
Geeta Gandbhir’s heartbreaking, maddening documentary shows the suffering created by “Stand Your Ground” laws.
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Why Did Disney Blow Hundreds of Millions of Dollars on ‘TRON: Ares’?
A theory on why the studio backed a project that was almost destined to fail.
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‘A House of Dynamite’ Is Too Self-Serious to Embrace Its Underlying Absurdity
Extreme competence will not save us.
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‘Roofman’: A Soft-Focus Look at the Collapse of the American Dream
Derek Cianfrance’s latest runs into the limits of likability.