Reviews
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‘The Bengali’ Review: New Orleans Author Searches for Her Indian Grandfather’s Past in Travelogue Doc
This meandering trip leaves one wanting to much more, both intellectually and artistically
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‘God’s Country’ Film Review: Thandiwe Newton Shines Even as the Landscape Gets Shaky
Newton plays a Montana college professor, an outsider at work and in her home, who battles hunters trespassing on her property
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‘Moonage Daydream’ Film Review: Immersive David Bowie Documentary Is a Bold, Seething Mass of Bowie-ness
Brett Morgen’s doc delves into the Bowie archives to embrace the artist’s concept of an art that works with “fragments and chaos”
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‘Goodnight Mommy’ Review: U.S. Remake of Austrian Thriller Pulls Back on the Tension
The cast, led by Naomi Watts, is uniformly excellent, but the script and direction constantly skimp on what made the original so memorable
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‘Pearl’ Film Review: Stunning Prequel Makes ‘X’ Even Better Than It Already Was
Mia Goth (who co-wrote with director Ti West) gives a sad, scary performance that deepens the character and her saga
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‘The Woman King’ Film Review: Viola Davis Rules in Fresh and Meaningful Action Film
Director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s film feels like an oft-told tale, but with a unique contemplation of strength and weakness
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‘From the Hood to the Holler’ Review: Charles Booker Documentary Chronicles a Passionate Campaign
Pat McGee captures Booker’s transformative 2020 congressional race — just in time for his 2022 bid to unseat Rand Paul
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‘Atlanta’ Season 4 Review: Donald Glover’s Series Comes Full Circle in Final Season
The final episodes of Glover’s boundary-pushing comedy series echo the show’s first season
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‘The Silent Twins’ Review: Biopic on British Sisters Is Visually Inventive But Dramatically Lacking
The director of “The Lure” loads on the style and flair, even when it reduces its mentally-ill heroines to vehicles for fantasy sequences
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What’s New on DVD/Blu-ray in September: ‘Elvis,’ ‘Aline,’ Vintage George Romero, ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force’ and More
Alonso Duralde spotlights the month’s new physical-media releases — because you can’t count on HBO Max to hang onto anything
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‘Confess, Fletch’ Film Review: Jon Hamm and a Talented Ensemble Nail This Mystery’s Breezy Vibe
Hamm takes over for Chevy Chase with a more modern take on Gregory McDonald’s wisecracking investigative journalist and sleuth
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‘Vampire Academy’ Review: Peacock Series Packs on the Plot but Struggles to Come Alive
The TV adaptation of the Richelle Mead book series gets lost in its own mythology
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‘The Greatest Beer Run Ever’ Film Review: Zac Efron Guzzles Down a Flat Brew
Toronto Film Festival 2022: Peter Farrelly’s followup to “Green Book” is another story of a working-class guy having his eyes opened, but it’s clunkier than its predecessor
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‘Freedom on Fire’ Film Review: Ukrainian Documentary Faces Horror, Finds Humanity
Toronto Film Festival 2022: Evgeny Afineevsky’s film, made in only six months during the Russian invasion, focuses on ordinary (and heroic) people living through the conflict
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‘Chevalier’ Film Review: Lush Period Biopic Comes Off as a Missed Opportunity
Toronto Film Festival 2022: Kelvin Harrison Jr. stars as a virtuoso composer in pre-revolutionary France, but the film slights the epic life of this singular historical figure
