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‘Perfect Days’ Review: Wim Wenders’ Quiet Drama Finds a Hero Who Cleans Toilets
Cannes 2023: The veteran German director has crafted an endearing, admiring portrait of a decent man
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‘Firebrand’ Review: Jude Law and Alicia Vikander Aren’t Sexy in Drama About Henry VIII’s Last Wife
Cannes 2023: Karim Ainouz’s period film could use more fire as it positions Catherine Parr as a rebellious reformer
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‘Flora and Son’ Review: John Carney’s Latest Film Plays Like Too Much of a Good Thing
Sundance 2023: The tuneful writer-director seems to have crammed several films’ worth of plot and character into this
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‘Corsage’ Film Review: Vicky Krieps Suffers Aristocratically in a ‘Spencer’ for the 19th Century
Marie Kreutzer sympathetically and incisively examines the demands of the Austro-Hungarian spotlight on Empress Elisabeth
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‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ Review: Bold, Dark and Funny Reimagining Dances to Its Own Tune
Brave children (and brave adults) will embrace this gorgeous and sinister stop-motion version that’s far more del Toro than Disney
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‘Ticket to Paradise’ Review: Julia Roberts and George Clooney Grin and Bear By-the-Numbers Rom-Com
Between the lack of passion (among various couples) and the creepy exoticization of Pacific Islanders, this feels like a glossy missed opportunity
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‘Butterfly Vision’ Film Review: Ukrainian Post-War Drama Is Horrifically Timely
Cannes 2022: Maksym Nakonechnyi’s film follows a drone pilot returning home to Ukraine after being held captive for months by Russian separatists
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‘Forever Young’ Film Review: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s Semi-Autobiographical Tale Is Painfully Familiar
Cannes 2022: Story follows a group of idealistic students attending acting school in the 1980s
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‘Brother and Sister’ Film Review: Marion Cotillard and Melvil Poupaud’s Sibling Rivalry Gets Lost in the Shuffle
Cannes 2022: Director and co-writer Arnaud Desplechin crams seemingly every idea he ever had into a drama that crowds out its powerful leads
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‘Downton Abbey: A New Era’ Film Review: Plenty of Cozy but Not Much Drama in This For-Fans-Only Sequel
There’s little in the way of dramatic stakes or memorable writing
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‘Tenet’ Film Review: Christopher Nolan Whips Up a Head-Scratching, Time-Traveling James Bond Homage
There is enjoyably puzzling fun to be had along the way, but “Tenet” may have you pleading for an aspirin and a long lie-down
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‘The Gentlemen’ Film Review: Guy Ritchie Gets His Mojo Back in a Tale That Recalls His Early Breakthroughs
Matthew McConaughey stars as a weed mogul looking to join the aristocracy in this entertaining rehash of Ritchie’s greatest hits
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‘Gemini Man’ Film Review: Will Smith Gets to Play Two Dullards in Ridiculous Cloning Thriller
Ang Lee blends an erratic script, listless performances and high frame-rate cinematography, and the results are terrible
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‘A Dog’s Journey’ Film Review: Reincarnating Dog Returns to the Margins of a Young Girl’s Troubles
In this fluffy, sappy sequel, it’s heroine CJ who goes on the journey while the canine antics feel mostly extraneous
