Raine Allen-Miller’s feature debut revives the genre with exuberant performances and a vibrant South London setting.
Category: Movies
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‘Spinning Gold’ Review: For the Records
A son’s tribute to the Casablanca Records impresario Neil Bogart gives short shrift to the art and the artists.
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‘The Line’ Review: Family Boundaries
This emotionally probing, if occasionally unfocused, drama explores the dynamics among an egocentric mother and her three daughters.
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‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ Review: They’re on a Roll
An ensemble cast aims to bring comedy and adventure to this film made in the image of the popular role-playing game.
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Bob Iger Ousts a Marvel Antagonist
Ike Perlmutter, the chairman of Marvel Entertainment who’s had a volatile tenure at Disney, was reportedly among the latest round of job cuts at the entertainment giant.
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‘Kill Boksoon’ Review: It’s a Deadly Job for a Busy Single Mom
An assassin must choose between the murderous career she loves and the daughter she’s been hiding it from.
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‘Smoking Causes Coughing’ Review: A Superteam Saga With a Demented Twist
Quentin Dupieux’s gift for surreal comedy is in full bloom in this nutty tale of heroes named after tobacco’s toxic components.
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‘Giraffe’ Review: Introspection in the Danish Countryside
In the pensive drama “Giraffe,” an ethnologist researching an abandoned cottage wonders whether her own life could or should change.
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‘Fugue’ Review: Lost Time
This psychological thriller about a woman experiencing amnesia poses an essentially cinematic question: Who are we without our memories?
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‘Enys Men’ Review: Island of the Lost
In this stylistically bold folk-horror movie, a woman is disturbed by visions related to a long-ago tragedy.
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‘Tetris’ Review: Falling Blocks and Rising Freedom
Like it’s namesake, this film is clever, crafty and shockingly entertaining.
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‘Space Oddity’ Review: Failure to Launch
Men will literally contemplate traveling to Mars instead of going to therapy in “Space Oddity,” directed by Kyra Sedgwick.