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‘Ride On’ Review: Jackie Chan, Back on the Horse

Chan, playing a former stuntman, has a few good trademark fight scenes, but the film is too busy stuffing sentimental elements into its lowbrow comedy...

‘Praise This’ Review: An Unlikely Savior

The R&B singer-songwriter Chloe Bailey stars in this musical comedy about an aspiring pop singer who lands in a scrappy competitive gospel group.

‘Murder Mystery 2’ Review: The Case of the Innocuous Sequel

Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston return as private detectives in this Netflix follow-up comedy.

‘A Good Person’ Review: Zach Braff’s New Chapter

The filmmaker behind “Garden State” has created a fully drawn female character in Florence Pugh’s grieving addict. But this recovery drama often has too heavy...

‘Full River Red’ Review: A Song Dynasty Blockbuster

The latest film from Zhang Yimou weaves slapstick fun into an investigation of a 12th-century political murder.

‘Therapy Dogs’ Review: It’s Time to Be Real

This low-budget film by a pair of high schoolers offers a bracing, impressionistic portrait of senior year as it’s happening.

‘Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre’ Review: The Getaway Car Is Stuck on Cruise

Guy Ritchie’s latest action-comedy puts Jason Statham and Aubrey Plaza in the middle of a rote heist story.

‘Bruiser’ Review: Of Fathers and Fractures

A teenage boy is caught between the man who raised him and a new guiding figure in this affecting study of masculinity and coming of...

‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ Still Flies High

A restored version of the film, which has returned to theaters, amplifies the ways in which it was groundbreaking.

‘Devil’s Peak’ Review: The Curse of a Family Name

In this thin drama, Billy Bob Thornton plays a menacing drug kingpin whose son begins to question their way of life.