A fresh, fun, and inventive spin on the “Groundhog Day”-esque time loop narrative, “Palm Springs” combines a goofy sense of humor with genuine heart.
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Stolen art and mending hearts
The documentary ‘The Painter and the Thief’ forms a portrait of two lonely souls bonded through art.
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‘Trolls’ is a test case for Hollywood
‘Trolls World Tour’ is the first major studio movie that will bypass theaters entirely to go directly to digital video. The fate of the entire industry is in the hands of the sequel to a children’s jukebox-musical inspired by a line of wildly popular, poofy-haired plastic dolls.
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Streaming review: ‘Blow the Man Down’
This past weekend Amazon Prime debuted “Blow the Man Down,” Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy’s compelling crime thriller that should make an excellent option for those looking for a bit of sex, murder, and mystery in their quarantine watching.
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What you can’t see
Writer-director Leigh Whannell’s re-envisioning of “The Invisible Man” switches up the traditional perspective, centering the story not on the person with supernatural abilities, but on what it might feel like to be their prey.
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Film review: ‘Beanpole’
The traumas of war linger long after the fighting has ended for the characters of Kantemir Balagov’s “Beanpole,” an unsparingly bleak but compelling tale of two female soldiers striving to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of World War II.
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Film review: ‘Clemency’
Alfre Woodard gives a phenomenal performance as a prison warden grappling with the emotional and psychological toll of carrying out death row executions in Chinonye Chukwu’s sobering and provocative drama.
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Whatchagonna do?
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back at it in “Bad Boys for Life.” The “Bad Boys” films had something of a fascistic streak, with a celebration of police brutality, militarization, and misanthropic cruelty played for laughs.
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Film review: ‘Little Women’
Greta Gerwig’s film distinguishes itself from countless iterations of the novel with a work that delivers a supremely faithful adaptation while also offering a fresh, creative perspective on the material.
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Risky business
As you might expect, “Uncut Gems” is not an easy watch. It’s a film that operates entirely at a level of clammy panic and desperation, forcing its audience to witness a person make all the wrong decisions and being powerless to stop it.
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The 15 best films of 2019
It was as good a year for film as it was bad for, well, (gestures broadly to the world) everything else. These are the movies that most spoke to Adam this year, each conveying something unexpected about what it feels like to be alive right now.
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Film review: ‘Waves’
The flawed but deeply-felt domestic drama is essentially two movies in one, split into a harrowing first half and an elegiac second.
