This month’s picks include a live-action version of Disney classic and an animated K-pop fantasy musical.
Category: Movies
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‘Madea’s Destination Wedding’ Review: Hellur, Bahamas
Tyler Perry returns as a series of characters, and this time, the real struggle for the family is boarding a plane.
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‘Wild Diamond’ Review: The Reel World
In this French coming-of-age drama, a young woman auditions for a reality show to escape life at home.
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‘Sovereign’ Review: The Fringe and the Forgotten
Nick Offerman stars as an anti-government widower whose extremist philosophy inches closer and closer to violent conflict.
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‘Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight’ Review: Through a Child’s Eyes
This drama about a white family in Zimbabwe is told almost entirely from the girl’s point of view.
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‘Daniela Forever’ Review: His Girlfriend’s Back
In this agreeably unpretentious science-fiction feature, Henry Golding plays a DJ who has lucid dreams about his dead girlfriend.
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‘Brick’ Review: No Way Out?
In the overly constructed thriller from Germany, tenants are trapped in apartment building by a mysterious bulwark.
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‘Rosa la Rose: Fille Publique’ Review: Lady Liberty of the Streets
A new restoration of a 1986 drama by the filmmaker Paul Vecchiali melds a candy-colored vision of the world’s oldest profession with a grim take on neoliberalism.
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‘Little, Big, and Far’ Review: Dwelling in the Cosmos
The experimental director Jem Cohen’s latest is an uncategorizable film about astronomers and humanity and love and the stars.
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‘Ne Zha 2,’ Blockbuster Chinese Animated Film, Will Get English Version
The English-language version will feature the voice of Michelle Yeoh and be released in the United States in August.
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Danielle Deadwyler on ’40 Acres and Balancing Brutality and Family
The star plays a stoic matriarch raising a militant brood to protect their land and each other against cannibals in R.T. Thorne’s new horror indie.
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‘Superman’ Review: It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a Reboot!
Beginning again with Man of Steel, this time in the hands of James Gunn.