Jason Statham plays a construction worker who’s as deft at breaking bones as he is at building high-rises.
Category: Movies
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‘Julie Keeps Quiet’ Review: Coping at Her Own Speed
A teenage regional tennis star moves on at her own pace after her ex-coach is dismissed under a cloud of suspicion.
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‘The Penguin Lessons’ Review: A Unique Approach to Teaching
Steve Coogan plays Tom Michell, an English teacher in 1970s Argentina, whose small new friend makes his class a hit.
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‘Grand Tour’ Review: A Quiet Knockout
The Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes’s black-and-white film follows a colonial official on a 20th-century odyssey across Asia, with his fiancée in pursuit.
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‘Holland’ Review: Nicole Kidman Goes Dutch
Set in a Michigan town designed to evoke the Netherlands, this thriller has red herring on the menu.
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‘Viet and Nam’ Review: A Soft Kiss Underground
Truong Minh Quy’s haunting romance between two Vietnamese coal miners contemplates war and loss with pained elegance.
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‘Holy Cow’ Review: How to Become a Big Cheese
Louise Courvoisier’s debut feature follows a teenager in the French Alps who, when thrust into caring for his sister, forges a path in cheese making.
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‘The Friend’ Review: The Writer vs. the Great Dane
Naomi Watts plays a writer in mourning who is given a formidable gift from a friend in this adaptation of the Sigrid Nunez novel.
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‘Death of a Unicorn’ Review: Into the Woods (Chomp, Chomp)
Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega play a father and daughter who run down a mystical beast and end up running amok with a monstrous brood.
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‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ Review: A Sour Note
Carey Mulligan briefly warms this damp, downbeat comedy about two lonely men and their musical obsession.
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How ‘No Other Land’ Became an Unlikely Box Office Success
The Oscar-winning documentary has surpassed $2 million at the box office despite the lack of a traditional distribution deal.
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Why ‘Last Tango in Paris’ Derailed Maria Schneider’s Life
“Being Maria” uses the actress’s own words to show how the star’s frank discussion of the experience was an early salvo in the #MeToo movement.