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‘Call Jane’ Review: Elizabeth Banks and Sigourney Weaver Shine as Underground Abortionists
This historical drama combines compassion, urgency and wit as it examines women helping women in the not-so-distant bad old days
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‘Silent River’ Review: Lynchian Vibes Help This Motel-Set Indie Puzzler, But Only So Much
“Yellow” director Chris Chan Lee digs into his evocative setting but the results never quite come together
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‘Amsterdam’ Review: Disjointed, Dull David O. Russell Period Comedy Wastes Talented Cast
The rich possibilities of a between-the-wars comedy-adventure never gel in this flat, unfunny misfire
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‘Lyle, Lyle Crocodile’ Review: Musical Version of Beloved Kids’ Book Is No Croc of Gold
Only Javier Bardem stands out in this otherwise bland, misbegotten attempt to cash in on the good will of “Paddington”
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‘Dos Estaciones’ Review: Gorgeously Moody Drama Captures the Struggles of a Tequila Rancher
Juan Pablo González’s atmospheric narrative mixes story, performance and real life to portray a Mexico changed by the modern economy
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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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‘Carmen’ Film Review: Border-Set Reimagining of Classic Tale Is a Pas de Dull
Toronto Film Festival 2022: Choreographer Benjamin Millepied’s choppy directorial debut even bobbles the dancing, although Rossy de Palma’s club queen steals the show
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‘Allelujah’ Film Review: Richard Eyre Handles Alan Bennett’s Witty, Sensitive Hospital Play With Care
Toronto Film Festival 2022: Judi Dench and Derek Jacobi are among the stars of this comedy that balances wisecracks about aging and blistering commentary on health-care cuts
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‘Hold Me Tight’ Film Review: Vicky Krieps Is Gripping as a Mother Who Abandons Her Family
Writer-director Mathieu Amalric finds mystery and humanity in an unreliable narrator whose motives aren’t immediately obvious to the viewer
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‘Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America’ Film Review: Enjoyable Doc Celebrates Spaghetti-Western Auteur
Venice Film Festival 2022: Eastwood, Scorsese, Spielberg and Tarantino help pay homage to the cinema giant behind classics of the genre
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‘A Compassionate Spy’ Film Review: Steve James Doc Examines a WWII Scientist’s Moral Espionage
Venice Film Festival 2022: The “Hoop Dreams” director sheds a light on Ted Hall, who shared atomic secrets with the USSR, but places his acts in the context of the USA’s post-war nuclear ambitions
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‘Out of the Blue’ Film Review: Soft-Boiled Noir Delivers Femme-Fatale Flatness
Not even a well-cast Diane Kruger can save Neil LaBute’s bland wade into James M. Cain waters
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‘Rogue Agent’ Film Review: Bizarre Real-Life Con Drama Delivers Superficial Thrills
Gemma Arterton dynamically tracks down James Norton’s fraudster, but the thriller template doesn’t do justice to this strange-but-true story
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‘Fall’ Film Review: Heights-Driven Thriller Successfully Maintains Its Grip
This suspended-suspenser plays to audience acrophobia
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‘Easter Sunday’ Film Review: Jo Koy’s Fractured Family Comedy Is All Cracks
Koy’s onstage charm doesn’t quite make the leap to the big screen, in a movie that forfeits cultural specificity for a wacky crime subplot
