‘Ham on Rye’ Review: A Coming-of-Age Film, Going Into Uncharted Territory
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Tyler Taormina’s teen "comedy" starts off as a recognizable high school movie before take a sharp left turn into existential dread
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‘Synchronic’ Review: Time Travel — The Ultimate Bad Trip
Posted in: Movie ReviewsTwo paramedics stumble across a street drug with some very odd side effects — and a knack for letting users get lost in the past
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‘Midnight in Paris’ Review: A Prom Night Doc to Remember
Posted in: Movie ReviewsA look at the lead-up to a high school prom in Flint, Michigan, turns an annual event into a celebration of a place and everyday people
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‘The Witches’ Review: A D.O.A. Fantasy Made From Dahl Parts
Posted in: Movie ReviewsRobert Zemeckis takes Roald Dahl's dark, macabre novel for a spin, and winds up with a lot of sound, fury, and an over-the-top Anne Hathaway
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‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’: Sacha Baron Cohen’s Holy Fool Returns With a Vengeance
Posted in: Movie ReviewsFourteen years after the comedian turned a fake foreign journalist into a cultural touchstone, his gonzo character comes back to take on Trump's America — and wins
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‘Letter to You’ Review: Bruce Springsteen’s Long, Loving Look Back
Posted in: Movie ReviewsDocumentary on the making of a new Bruce & the E Street Band album is part love letter, part eulogy and part joyous rock 'n' roll celebration
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‘Rebecca’: A Gothic Classic Gets the By-the-Numbers Treatment
Posted in: Movie ReviewsFilmmaker Ben Wheatley's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s tale of second-wife blues is desperately in need of life support
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‘Martin Eden’: A Young Man’s Literary Journey, A Cinematic Knockout
Posted in: Movie ReviewsPietro Marcello's take on Jack London's novel is the kind of movie that restores your faith in an art form — and the craft of turning words on a page into sound and vision
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‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’: The Sixties Told in Sorkinese
Posted in: Movie ReviewsWriter-director Aaron Sorkin brings a star-studded cast and his signature brand of fast-talking, hokey idealism to an inflection point in the counterculture movement
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‘White Riot’: When Punk Rock Fought the Nazis and Won
Posted in: Movie ReviewsA pitch-perfect, punk AF documentary about the formation of U.K.'s Rock Against Racism — culminating in a legendary '78 show in Victoria Park — doubles as a contemporary call to arms
