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On the Rocks: Daddy Issues
Like Woody Allen, Sofia Coppola is a filmmaker who has come in for criticism for the at-times aggressive whiteness of her characters, even if...
Yellow Rose: Broken Axle
A few years ago, I wrote about the AMC Grapevine Mills starting to show Filipino films. Since then, I’ve been regularly disheartened by the...
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Coco (PG) Pixar finds new life in its first musical. This Mexican-set animated film is about a 12-year-old boy (voiced by Anthony Gonzalez) who...
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A Call to Spy (PG-13) Lydia Dean Pilcher (Radium Girls) directs this drama about the women whom Britain’s espionage service recruits to spy on...
Possessor: Some Bodies
I’m trying to avoid the clichés endemic to film critics when I’m talking about Andrea Riseborough, but it isn’t easy resisting the temptation to...
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Akira (R) A movie set in 2019 but released in 1988, Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s anime classic receives a re-release, with voices by Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu...
Kajillionaire: July Heist
Of all the filmmakers to make a caper film, Miranda July would have ranked very low on the list of people I’d expect. The...
The Nest: Keeping Up Appearances
We haven’t heard much from Sean Durkin since his debut feature almost a decade ago, Martha Marcy May Marlene. I could be wrong, but...
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Alone (R) Slightly better than the similar and starrier Unhinged. Jules Willcox stars as a recent widow who drives her U-Haul on a long-distance...
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All In: The Fight for Democracy (PG-13) Lisa Cortés and Liz Garbus’ documentary chronicles the history of voter suppression in America. (Opens Wednesday in...
