Tag: 2020s
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‘Dumb Money’ Plays Like a Better-Than-Average Reenactment
The comedy, based on the GameStop short squeeze of 2021, is well-acted and -written, but little about it suggests dramatization was necessary.
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‘The Nun II’ is a Barely Serviceable Sequel to a Barely Serviceable Spin-Off
Habit-clad demon Valak returns to wreak even more terror after being seemingly damned back to Hell in 2018’s ‘The Nun.’
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‘A Love Song’ is a Quiet, Minor-Key Romance
Revisiting the movie that put character actors Dale Dickey and Wes Studi at the forefront.
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Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott Do Top-Tier Work in ‘Bottoms’
Plus: Virginie Efira is the reason to see twisty psychological thriller ‘Madeleine Collins.’
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Charming Coming-of-Age Comedy ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ Keeps It All in the Family
Plus: Cory Finley dips into science fiction with ‘Landscape with Invisible Hand.’
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Lily Gladstone is the Best Thing About ‘The Unknown Country’
Though she can only do so much for this dramatically underbaked, formally fussy drama from Morrisa Maltz.
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The Illicit Affairs of ‘Passages’ and ‘The Innocent’
New movies from Ira Sachs and Louis Garrel, reviewed.
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Talk to the Hand: On ‘Talk to Me’
In ‘Talk to Me,’ the hand that feeds also bites back.
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New Worlds, New Problems in ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’
Happy Barbenheimer Weekend to all who celebrated.
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The ‘Mission: Impossible’ Franchise Defies the Odds — Again
Notes on the latest addition to a series that, in the last decade, seems only to get better and better.
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‘Wham!’ and ‘Joy Ride’ Celebrate the Good Times
A new documentary and a new comedy, reviewed.
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In ‘No Hard Feelings,’ Jennifer Lawrence Finally Lets Loose
Plus: Elevated by a quietly stellar Scarlett Johansson performance, ‘Asteroid City’ is Wes Anderson’s best movie in nearly a decade.
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