‘Nickel Boys’ Review
In ‘Nickel Boys’, two teenage boys build a friendship and attempt to survive a racist reform school in the Deep South.
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‘Sing Sing’ Review
In Greg Kwedar’s ‘Sing Sing’, inmates of a maximum security prison join a theater program to escape and process their struggles.
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‘A Real Pain’ Review
An elegant character study, driven by strong performances, ‘A Real Pain’ shows how our ancestry haunts us, but doesn’t erase our present anxieties.
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‘The Apprentice’ Review
Strong performances from Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong are undermined by muddled storytelling in ‘The Apprentice’, Ali Abbasi’s Donald Trump origin story.
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‘The Substance’ Review
Come for the cutting Hollywood satire, stay for the hilarious and grotesque body horror.
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‘The Brutalist’ Review
A work of staggering ambition, ‘The Brutalist’ is a compelling and thought provoking drama worthy of applause, even as it falls short of being the masterpiece it is striving to be.
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‘A Complete Unknown’ Review
Anchored by a powerful Timothée Chalamet performance, ‘A Complete Unknown’ delivers a complex and satisfying character study of an unlikable genius pushing the boundaries of folk music.
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‘Nosferatu’ Review
In this morbid fairy tale, Robert Eggers updates the story of ‘Nosferatu’ to reflect modern sensibilities and anxieties, delivering a beautiful and terrifying vampire film.
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‘Juror #2’ Review
A competently directed attempt at modernizing ‘12 Angry Men’ that unfortunately loses itself with frustrating characters and a lackluster mystery.
‘Salem’s Lot’ Review
Based on the classic Stephen King novel, ‘Salem’s Lot’ delivers a generic vampire story with paper thin characters and mediocre CGI with a few attempts at thrills sprinkled throughout.
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