Felicity Jones portrays Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a brilliant woman who stuck to her principles, but who could be shrewd when necessary. It’s tough going, but nonetheless Ginsburg persists.
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Film review: ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’
Based on James Baldwin’s 1974 novel, the film is at once a gorgeous, aching love story and an unflinching gaze into the failings of our justice system.
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Film review: ‘Mary Poppins Returns’
Pitching itself somewhere between a remake and a sequel, “Mary Poppins Returns” doesn’t desecrate the original’s legacy, but it doesn’t fully distinguish itself either, charming as it is.
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Roundup: The top movies of 2018
Every film mentioned here is absolutely worthy of your time.
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Film review: ‘Aquaman’
Seeking to differentiate his film from the dour tone and muted colors that’s become DC house style, director James Wan and his team run in the total opposite direction. The psychedelic production design fills the frame with as much color as possible.
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Film review: ‘Bumblebee’
The best Transformers movie by a mile (though it’s admittedly not a high bar to clear), against all odds “Bumblebee” ultimately succeeds by finding the beating heart beneath the machinery.
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Film review: ‘Roma’
Telling a small-scale story with the expansive sweep of an epic, Alfonso Cuarón’s semi-autobiographical film charts a year in the lives of a middle-class family, told through the eyes of the live-in maid and nanny.
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Film preview: ‘The Favourite’
As an examination of the corruptive nature of power (or simply one’s close proximity to it), the film doesn’t exactly say anything new. But it’s fascinating and massively entertaining to watch these fiercely intelligent women, embodied by three wonderful actresses, play off one another.
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Film preview: ‘Maria by Callas’
Shining a spotlight on the late Maria Callas, the new documentary “Maria by Callas” tells the renowned opera star’s story almost entirely through her own words, curating archival newsreel footage, interviews, unpublished personal letters to friends, diaries, and memoirs into an intimate account of the diva’s life and career.
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Film preview: ‘At Eternity’s Gate’
At its best, Schnabel’s film immerses us in van Gogh’s occasionally scattered perspective. It succeeds at doing what some biopics don’t accomplish: giving us a glimpse into the process of a true artist at work.
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Film review: ‘Robin Hood’
The newest version of the classic tale never truly makes a convincing case for its existence, but well, here it is anyway.
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Film preview: ‘Green Book’
Aiming to be crowd-pleaser, the film’s familiar odd-couple, “we can solve racism if we just learn to understand each other” narrative traffics in safe, comforting answers to the serious issues it seeks to tackle.
