The British director casts the superb Marianne Jean-Baptiste in the role of an excruciatingly lonely character whose pain reveals hidden depths.
Category: Movies
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Review: ‘The Return,’ Starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche
Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche burn through the screen in this grim take on the homecoming of Odysseus.
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‘The Order’ Review: Catch Him if You Can
The thriller, about a white supremacist (Nicholas Hoult) and the killing of a real-life radio host, among other crimes, hits familiar genre beats.
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‘Lake George’ Review: An Odd Couple Crime Comedy
A stoic former convict reluctantly teams up with his would-be victim in this off-kilter film by Jeffrey Reiner.
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‘The Girl With the Needle’ Review: A Series of Unfortunate Events
This grim and exceptionally stylish film centers on a Danish woman who becomes tied up in the black-market baby trade.
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‘Day of the Fight’ Review: Innovating an Old Cliché
Revisiting a boxing classic, and honoring a filmmaking legend.
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‘Bona’: A Filipina Superstar Wreaks Vengeance in a Two-Fisted Melodrama
Recently rediscovered and now digitally restored, Lino Brocka’s 1980 movie, starring Nora Aunor, opens for a week at Metrograph.
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‘Y2K’ Review: Dying Like It’s 1999
A computer glitch makes electronics go haywire in this zany and nostalgic horror-comedy from the comedian Kyle Mooney.
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‘Unstoppable’ Review: A Fearless Athlete, at Home and Away
In “Unstoppable” a focused Jharrel Jerome stars as Anthony Robles, who won a 2011 NCAA wrestling title and was born with one leg.
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‘Oh, Canada’ Review: Jacob Elordi as a Young Richard Gere
Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi star in Paul Schrader’s meditative drama about guilt and seeking forgiveness.
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‘The End’ Review: It’s All Come to This
Joshua Oppenheimer’s postapocalyptic musical about a wealthy family in an underground bunker is placidly disturbing.
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‘Nightbitch’ Review: Motherhood? Woof! Grr!
Amy Adams plays a stay-at-home mom who comes to believe that she’s a dog in Marielle Heller’s adaptation of the Rachel Yoder novel.