‘Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets’ Review: Last Call for a Las Vegas Dive Bar
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A portrait of a dive bar's final hours takes a woozy, compellingly cockeyed look at those who live life one shot at a time
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‘Miss Juneteenth’ Review: A Beauty Pageant, in the Eye of the Beholder
Posted in: Movie ReviewsWriter-director Channing Godfrey Peoples' debut about a former 'Miss Juneteenth' winner is a mother-daughter drama perfectly suited to our current moment
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‘On the Record’ Review: Doc Gives Russell Simmons’ Accusers the Spotlight
Posted in: Movie ReviewsHBO Max documentary on sexual-assault allegations leveled at the hip-hop mogul significantly changes the conversation on harassment in the music industry
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‘The Painter and the Thief’ Review: The Art of Healing (and Vice Versa)
Posted in: Movie ReviewsDocumentary on an artist who turns the man who's stolen her work into a muse is a tribute to an unlikely, undeniably powerful frendship
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‘Spaceship Earth’ Review: Under the Domes, Out of Their Minds
Posted in: Movie ReviewsDocumentary on rise and fall of the Biosphere 2 project is a fascinating look at one of the eco-science community's most noble failures
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‘Selah and the Spades’ Review: Prep School Confidential, Cheerleader Gangster Edition
Posted in: Movie ReviewsWriter-director Tayarisha Poe's debut gives us a world of criminal teens warring over turf in a tony high school—and introduces a fresh new filmmaking voice
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‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ Review: Teen Pregnancy Drama’s a Quiet Stunner
Posted in: Movie ReviewsCharacter study of two young women traveling to New York to procure an abortion will leave you devastated
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10 Best Movies at Sundance 2020
Posted in: Movie FeaturesFrom docs on death, politics and truffle hunters to a gleefully existential romcom — the cream of this year's Sundance Film Festival crop
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Sundance 2020: ‘Nine Days,’ ‘Minari’ Are the Festival’s Competition MVPs
Posted in: Movie FeaturesAfter some 'good' dramatic competition films over the fest's first weekend, Sundance 2020 finally gives us two great ones
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Sundance 2020: ‘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
