Misogyny and racism get their butts spanked in this bold, messy celebration of the Bay Area in the 1980s.
Category: Movies
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‘A Nice Indian Boy’ Review: Meet-Cute at a Hindu Temple
Thanks to the instant chemistry between Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff, the film pulls off their whirlwind romance.
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‘The Martial Artist’ Review: Tap Out
In this overwrought action film by Shaz Khan, a mixed martial artist’s career is upended when his brother is killed.
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‘Love Hotel’ Review: Finding Space for Beauty in the Bleakness
A Shinji Somai contribution to a narrow soft-core subgenre crushes together the anonymity and violence, desire and trauma, that bind lives of alienation.
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‘Gazer’ Review: Peering Out From a Lonely Place
Ryan J. Sloan’s brooding thriller is a murky tale about an isolated woman, with many shades of Schrader, Nolan and Cronenberg.
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‘Eric LaRue’ Review: When Pain Won’t Stay Quiet
Judy Greer stars in a searing drama about the mother of a school shooter and all the things we try not to say.
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The Movie That Can Help You Understand Cory Booker’s 25-Hour Senate Speech
“Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” starring Jimmy Stewart as a naïve senator, explores the idealism — and reality — behind the tactic.
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‘A Minecraft Movie’ Review: Block by Bizarre Block
Jack Black and Jason Momoa star in this adaptation of the megahit video game that leans into the mindless silliness of mid-aughts comedy.
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Val Kilmer in ‘Batman Forever’ Was a True 1990s Moment
The actor took only one turn in the famous batsuit. That film, “Batman Forever,” couldn’t be a more representative artifact of its era.
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At New Directors/New Films, the Faces Tell the Story
They’re the great cinematic landscape in stories as diverse as “Familiar Touch,” about dementia, and “Timestamp,” about Ukrainian schoolchildren.
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In ‘The Friend,’ A Great Dane and His Co-Star, Naomi Watts, Learn New Tricks
In “The Friend,” a huge dog and his new human, played by Naomi Watts, are in mourning. Both actress and canine had to learn new tricks for the film.
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Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65
A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable. At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade.