This musical drama about Islamic extremism (yes, you read that right) crowds out its finer points with spectacle.
Category: Movies
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‘A Million Miles Away’ Review: From the Fields to Outer Space
In this biopic, a boy from a family of migrant farm workers watches the moon landing in 1969, which ignites his desire to be an astronaut.
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‘Outlaw Johnny Black’ Review: A Gravel-Toned Gunslinger
This misguided Western parody, starring and directed by Michael Jai White, struggles to establish a comedic rhythm.
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‘Remembering Every Night’ Review: Separate Lives, Intertwined
Yui Kiyohara’s slow and graceful film follows a day in the life of three women of different ages as their paths crisscross in a Tokyo suburb.
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‘Love at First Sight’ Review: Sense, Sensibility and Statistics
Two lovebirds-to-be meet at an airport in this unoriginal but sturdy Y.A. romance, which pivots on the probability of falling in love.
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‘El Conde’ Review: Pablo Larraín’s Grisly Satire of Pinochet
The Chilean director Pablo Larraín makes the dictator Augusto Pinochet a vampire in this horror spoof.
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‘Canary’ Review: Tracking Lonnie Thompson’s Findings
A documentary traces the efforts of Dr. Lonnie Thompson, a scientist who starting collecting evidence of global warming in the 1970s.
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‘Satanic Hispanics’ Review: The Devil Made Them Do It
Five Latino filmmakers get gory, and goofy, in a new horror movie anthology.
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‘Dumb Money’ Review: Revenge of the Amateur Stock Traders
The GameStop stock craze of 2021 becomes the basis for an irreverent underdog movie starring Paul Dano.
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How Strikes Reflect Longstanding Battles for Control in Hollywood
Striking actors and writers fear A.I. Executives don’t seem to. It’s a longstanding battle over technology and control in Hollywood that plays out onscreen, too.
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and Scorsese’s Bride Like No Other
Martin Scorsese’s epic drama about killings in Osage territory in the 1920s showcases the unparalleled wedding wear and culture of the tribe.
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‘A Haunting in Venice’ Review: A Whodunit With a Splash of Horror
Kenneth Branagh directs and stars in this adaptation of a ghostly mystery from Agatha Christie, with assists from Michelle Yeoh and Tina Fey.