Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
Category: Movies
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The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Disney+, Amazon, Max, AMC+ and More in August
“Butterfly,” with Daniel Dae Kim, “Irish Blood” with Alicia Silverstone and ‘Chief of War,” with Jason Momoa, arrive; “King of the Hill” and “Platonic” return.
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Superman’s Earthly Birthplace? It’s Cleveland, and It’s Embracing Its Hero.
A monument featuring Superman and finally honoring his creators and the model for Lois Lane will go on display this weekend.
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‘My Oxford Year’ Review: Finding Love Abroad
She’s a working-class romantic. He’s a prep school playboy. A Netflix romance film aims to be this generation’s “About Time,” but doesn’t hit the mark.
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‘Souleymane’s Story’ Review: Fighting an Uphill Battle
A Guinean food delivery cyclist in Paris prepares for his asylum interview in this attentive, nuanced character study.
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Liam Neeson Goes Slapstick in “Naked Gun” Reboot
The 73-year-old actor stars in the reboot of “The Naked Gun” as he reboots his career by venturing into slapstick comedy.
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Three Great Documentaries to Stream
In this month’s picks, one filmmaker wields his own camera, another looks back on a disastrous Chicago heat wave and a third exposes the illusory workings of the diamond industry.
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‘Architecton’ Review: A Lesson Among Ruins
A documentary about concrete is as gorgeous as it is grave.
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‘Together’ Review: Getting Closer and Closer
An amusingly icky body-horror movie stars real-life partners Alison Brie and Dave Franco as a codependent couple.
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‘The Naked Gun’ Review: A Chip Off the Old Blockhead
Liam Neeson gamely steps into Leslie Nielsen’s big, beautiful clown shoes in this reboot of the blissfully absurd 1988 cop comedy.
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‘Harvest’ Review: When the Land Was Home
Caleb Landry Jones stars in a tale of a medieval English village vanishing.
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‘The Bad Guys 2’ Review: A Wolf, a Shark, a Snake and a Sequel
This animated movie about animal bank robbers, voiced by Sam Rockwell, Zazie Beetz and others, is goofy fun.