‘In the Heights’ Sets Out to Do the Impossible — And Largely Succeeds
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Jon M. Chu's big-screen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's barrio musical, by and about Latinos, makes a star of Anthony Ramos
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‘Censor’: British Horror, Banned Movies and Madness
Posted in: Movie ReviewsThrowback film rewinds to England's days of strict scary-movie censorship, and turns a psychological breakdown into a fractured fairy tale
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‘Infinite’ Misses the Mark (Walhberg) — No Jest
Posted in: Movie ReviewsYes, you can blame director Antoine Fuqua for this limp bit of hero myth
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‘Conjuring’ Is Back — And the Devil Made Them Do It. Seriously
Posted in: Movie ReviewsThe "why" is (apparently) irrelevant
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A Battle of Wits and Knits: Despite Its Intentions, ‘Cruella’ Proves Why the Baddies Are More Fun
Posted in: Movie ReviewsVampy, stylish, and cruel: Emma Stone embodies the campy dognapper
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‘New Order’: Class War, Dismissed
Posted in: Movie ReviewsCinema provocateur Michel Franco reminds you that the revolution will not be televised — it will be turned into tone-deaf, feel-bad posturing
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‘A Quiet Place: Part II’: The Sound of Silence (and Sequelitis)
Posted in: Movie ReviewsThe follow-up to John Krasinki's out-of-nowhere horror hit continues the story — and feels like it's a little too concerned with franchise-building for its own good
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‘The Dry’ Is a Mystery Full of Small-Town Secrets, Suspicions
Posted in: Movie ReviewsRobert Connolly’s film, starring Eric Bana, is full of little rabbit holes of the mind
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‘Final Account’: An Oral History of a Broken, Brainwashed Nation
Posted in: Movie ReviewsA collection of interviews with the last generation of Germans who lived through the Third Reich doubles as an urgent reminder to keep history from repeating itself
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‘The Killing of Two Lovers’: Portrait of a Desperate Dad in Denial — With a Gun
Posted in: Movie ReviewsActors Clayne Crawford and Sepideh Moafi are stellar conduits for all the pain on display in Robert Machoian’s debut feature
