‘La Llorona’ Review: Dictatorships, Denial and the Spirits of the Dead
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A brilliant horror movie turns the guilt of a genocidal Guatemalan general into a gut-punch of a ghost story
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‘Howard’ Review: Meet the Lyricist Behind Your Favorite Disney Tunes
Posted in: Movie ReviewsThe late, great songwriter for the House of Mouse, Howard Ashman, gets a deserved and long overdue tribute
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‘American Pickle’: Two Seth Rogens Aren’t Always Better Than One
Posted in: Movie ReviewsStar plays dual roles—a frozen-in-time old-world Jewish immigrant and his great-grandson—in a fish-outta-water comedy that only half works
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‘The Fight’ Review: Defending Freedom, One Court Case at a Time
Posted in: Movie ReviewsDoc on the ACLU uses four case studies to look at how the organization has been on the frontlines of Trump-era assaults on democracy
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‘The Go-Go’s’ Gives ’80s New Wave Band a Proper Music Doc (Finally)
Posted in: Movie ReviewsPremiere of the seminal all-female group's long-deserved portrait gets the band back together, charting their rise-and-fall-and-return while making the case for their revolutionary status
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‘She Dies Tomorrow’ Review: Paranoia, One Person-to-Person Contact Away
Posted in: Movie ReviewsA woman suddenly becomes convinced that she only has one more day to live — an idea which becomes contagious — in what may be the eeriest horror movie of 2020
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‘Summerland’ Review: Love, Childcare and the Joys of Comfort-Food Cinema
Posted in: Movie ReviewsCloying British drama about an iconoclastic woman looking after a boy during the Blitz will either be an annoyance or a balm, depending on your mood
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‘Amulet’ Review: A Necklace, a Soldier, a Horror-Movie Nightmare
Posted in: Movie ReviewsActor-turned-filmmaker Romola Garai's directorial debut delivers socially tinged supernatural terror and a sense of creepiness — up to a point
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‘Radioactive’ Review: Madame Curie Gets Her Electro-Charged Biopic
Posted in: Movie ReviewsRosamund Pike does wonders with the Nobel-winning scientist and her legacy
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‘The Rental’ Review: When a Getaway Weekend Gets Gruesome
Posted in: Movie ReviewsDave Franco's directorial debut turns a tale of two couples renting a spooky Air BnB into a stalker-film delight
