Category: Review
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‘Brown Sugar’ Feels Like a Classic Before You’ve Even Finished It
‘Brown Sugar’ is one of the best romantic comedies of its decade.
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‘Sudden Manhattan’: A Charming Debut from Adrienne Shelly
‘Sudden Manhattan’ is one of the best elucidations of being in your mid-20s and thinking everything is hopeless — including yourself — I’ve seen in a long time.
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‘The Pizza Triangle’ Reminds You That Monica Vitti Was So Much More Than a So-Called Ice Maiden
I unwittingly watched ‘The Pizza Triangle’ the night before Vitti died at the age of 90.
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‘The Unbelievable Truth’ Leaves a Mark
Hartley and Shelly’s partnership might have been fleeting, but the imaginativeness of ‘The Unbelievable Truth’ presses on.
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‘Big Girls Don’t Cry … They Get Even’ Reminds You How Much More Joan Micklin Silver Was Capable Of
This is a pleasant, diverting movie, though it’s distractingly a bit at war with itself.
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‘Alone Together’ is a Riveting Portrait of an Artist in Quarantine
Plus: ‘Flee.’
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In ‘Scarecrow,’ the Small Details Count the Most
Photographer turned filmmaker Jerry Schatzberg’s unpolished, expansive direction complements his characters’ dawdling, their ever-changing relationship, and the wide-open possibilities of the road.
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‘Vera Drake’ is Devastating
The arc of ‘Vera Drake’ engenders some thriller-like tension but never rises into the sensationalism it easily could.
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‘Duelle’ Feels Neither Here Nor There
This is a willfully unpindownable gambol of a movie whose mysteriousness and dream-like quality are hypnotic virtues rather than alienating setbacks.
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‘The Package’ Does Exactly What It’s Supposed To
‘The Package’ is all smart and watchable without being transcendent.
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‘Bacurau’: Thoughtful Thrills
Filho and Dornelles seamlessly prop up fun without curtailing the very-real horrors of colonialism and political malfeasance their story evokes.
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In ‘A Hero,’ A Good Deed Goes Bad
In ‘A Hero,’ an act of good samaritanism slowly morphs into what feels like the onset of a curse.
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