Volleying questions with the table tennis champ Marty Reisman, an inspiration for Timothée Chalamet’s new film, showed that he was a character in his own right.
Category: Movies
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‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Review: A Woman Clothed With the Sun
In an extraordinary performance, Amanda Seyfried plays the founder of the Shakers in a singular film.
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‘The Choral’ Review: Singing to Keep the Fear at Bay
As England goes to war, a provincial choir master played by Ralph Fiennes is challenged to find available voices in this poignant drama set in 1916.
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‘Song Sung Blue’ Review: A Christmas ‘Caroline’
Craig Brewer’s toe-tapping weepie about the triumphs and tragedies of a Neil Diamond tribute band is exactly the movie we need right now.
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‘Anaconda’ Review: Back in the Jungle
The movie gets at least one thing right: Rebooting the shlocky, widely-panned creature-feature, starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd, is a goofy idea.
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‘The Plague’ Review: Pool of the Flies
A stunner of a debut film follows a group of boys at a water polo camp, where an outsider is just trying to fit in.
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‘Anaconda’ Review: Back in the Jungle
The movie gets at least one thing right: Rebooting the shlocky, widely-panned creature-feature, starring Jack Black and Paul Rudd, is a goofy idea.
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‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Review: Families, Untied
Jim Jarmusch’s uneven triptych, a prizewinner at Venice, saves its best segment for last.
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‘Modern Love Podcast’: Andrew Garfield Wants to Crack Open Your Heart
The actor knows life is fleeting, but he wants to hold on to every moment.
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‘Goodbye June’ Review: Terms of Endearment, and Estrangement
Kate Winslet directs a formulaic script by her son, Joe Anders, about a dying matriarch and her quarreling adult children.
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Did We Underestimate Kate Hudson?
For years she was pigeonholed as a rom-com star. Her turn as a blue-collar mom with a love of Neil Diamond just might vault her back to the Oscars.
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From ‘Splitsville’ to ‘Friendship,’ the Year’s Best Fight Scenes
Everywhere you looked this year, men were feuding. In movies like “Splitsville,” “Eddington” and “Friendship,” it was gloriously pathetic.