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‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’ Review: Daniel Radcliffe Becomes the Beloved...

Daniel Radcliffe stars in a frequently exaggerated, often fabricated story of Yankovic’s rise to fame.

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‘The Mean One’ Review: A Killer Grinch Bores You to Death in an Unauthorized...

The clown from "Terrifier 2" stars in a bloody parody of Dr. Seuss’s classic holiday fable that doesn’t have the decency to be funny.

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‘Missing’ Review: Stand-Alone ‘Searching’ Sequel Takes Gimmick to Bigger (and...

The latest "screenlife" film stars Storm Reid as a concerned daughter trying to find her missing mom, played by Nia Long.

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A Farce with Teeth: Hal Hartley Chronicles the Making of His Scrappy Debut...

‘80s Week: “I was going to have to rely on the thing that I felt most confident about, and which, in fact, is the cheapest: words,” remembers the “Henry Fool” director.

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‘American Symphony’ Review: Jon Batiste Tries to Break Open Classical Canon...

Filmmaker Matthew Heineman captures the musician in a chaotic year — with mixed results.

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‘Together 99’ Review: Lukas Moodysson’s Sequel Chronicles a Commune Reunion...

TIFF: The world might have changed in the 24 years since the events of “Together,” but many ideals have not.

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‘Bob Marley: One Love’ Review: This Bob Marley Biopic Fails to Get Up, Stand...

Star Kingsley Ben-Adir gives a satisfying performance in an otherwise forgettable trip through the reggae legend’s final years.

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‘Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie’ Review: The Legendary Stoner Duo Recount...

SXSW: Director David Bushell mixes archival footage, contemporary interviews, animated sequences, and staged driving scenes to explore a slice of American comedy history.

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‘Much Ado About Dying’ Review: An Elderly Former Actor Performs for the...

Simon Chambers moves back to London to care for his elderly uncle in this modest personal film.

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‘Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in 2 Pieces’ Review: A Comedy Icon Looks Back...

Morgan Neville’s two-part, three-hour documentary paints a portrait of a comedy behemoth turned comfortable family man.

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‘Back to Black’ Review: Amy Winehouse Biopic Offers Crude Highlight Reel of...

Marisa Abela gives a fine impression of the late singer, but the film's tawdry instincts and misguided sense of responsibility let Winehouse's memory down.

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‘Force of Nature: The Dry 2’ Review: Eric Bana Returns for Another Down Under...

In this sequel to the 2020 Aussie smash hit, Anna Torv co-stars as a not-so-perfect victim who embarks on a corporate retreat gone horribly wrong.

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‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’ Review: LaKeith Stanfield Voices the Late...

Cannes: Peck pays overly respectful tribute to Cole’s astounding work (and tragic life) with mixed results.

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‘Filmlovers!’ Review: Arnaud Desplechin’s Hybrid Essay Film Explores His...

Cannes: The post-New Wave French director revives his loose avatar Paul Dedalus to examine the beauty of spectatorship.

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‘Tuesday’ Review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus and a Talking Bird Co-Star in A24’s...

Death takes the form of a macaw as a mother struggles to accept her daughter’s imminent passing.

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‘Hacking Hate’ Review: The Real-Life Lisbeth Salander Infiltrates an Online...

Tribeca: An award-winning investigative journalist examines the ways that social media companies profit off of hate speech 

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‘Sing Sing’ Review: Colman Domingo Shines in a True-Life Prison Drama About...

The film’s largely non-professional cast features many formerly incarcerated performers who lend the production invaluable authenticity. 

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‘The Beast Within’ Review: Kit Harrington’s Werewolf Movie Transforms into a...

Kit Harrington stars as a man afflicted by an ancestral curse… or is he really just a violent jerk?

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A Requiem for Mumblecore: Looking Back at the Last Time Movies Were Allowed...

"Mumblecore" was a punchline before it ever got started, but its low-def look and fumbling improvisations captured social anxieties that movies have since grown too big to see clearly.

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‘One to One: John and Yoko’ Review: John Lennon and Yoko Ono on the Move in...

Venice: Director Kevin Macdonald captures both a moment in the rock stars lives and American history through the lens of television.

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