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Nazis, time travel, and creepy dolls are only a hint of what haunts The Banishing’s house
By Leila Latif April 14, 2021 | 5:00pm
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Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer squander their super talent in Netflix’s lazy Thunder Force
By Katie Rife April 9, 2021 | 7:00am
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The slick sci-fi allegory Voyagers launches Lord Of The Flies into space
By A.A. Dowd April 7, 2021 | 11:00pm
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Night In Paradise brings a stylish, wearyingly grim South Korean crime epic to Netflix
By Jason Shawhan April 7, 2021 | 4:40pm
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The brutal, rewarding Moffie fires a Full Metal Jacket into the apartheid era
By Lawrence Garcia April 6, 2021 | 8:00pm
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Blindingly obvious subtext dims the scares of blackout horror movie The Power
By Mike D'Angelo April 6, 2021 | 7:00pm
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Malmkrog is like sitting through the longest, most eloquent freshman philosophy debate ever
By A.A. Dowd April 2, 2021 | 10:00pm
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Holy crap, The Unholy is a bore
By A.A. Dowd April 1, 2021 | 6:30pm
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Sex positive cringe comedy Shiva Baby is the good kind of stressful
By Katie Rife March 31, 2021 | 7:10pm
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Eric André brings his pranks to the movies with the funny, warmhearted Bad Trip
By Jesse Hassenger March 31, 2021 | 4:10pm
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Concrete Cowboy turns a unique subculture into a coming-of-age cliché
By Carlos Aguilar March 31, 2021 | 3:00pm
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Funny Face puts cinematic scare quotes on a paean to urban authenticity
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 30, 2021 | 8:00pm
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Lesotho makes a haunting, hypnotic Oscars debut with This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection
By Lawrence Garcia March 30, 2021 | 6:00pm
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Godzilla Vs. Kong delivers all the giddy monster-on-monster mayhem a kaiju fan could desire
By Katie Rife March 29, 2021 | 3:00pm
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The brutal, misanthropic Violation takes revenge to its most nightmarish extremes
By Katie Rife March 25, 2021 | 2:00pm
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Shoplifters Of The World is nothing but reference porn for fans of The Smiths
By Josh Modell March 25, 2021 | 1:00pm
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Bob Odenkirk is Nobody you want to mess with in this stylish Death Wish redux
By A.A. Dowd March 22, 2021 | 4:00pm
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Drab pro-life propaganda Roe V. Wade lacks the wingnut zing of its Pure Flix cousins
By Charles Bramesco March 22, 2021 | 1:00pm
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Even Benedict Cumberbatch can’t make the real-life spy games of The Courier exciting
By Mike D'Angelo March 16, 2021 | 7:00pm
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The Snyder Cut is a much longer Justice League, but not a better one
By A.A. Dowd March 15, 2021 | 4:00pm
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Operation Varsity Blues digs deep into the true story of the celebrity college admissions scandal
By Noel Murray March 12, 2021 | 6:34pm
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The Truffle Hunters is a rare treat for gourmets and dog lovers alike
By Katie Rife March 10, 2021 | 6:00pm
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It’s a firm no on Jennifer Garner’s parenting comedy Yes Day
By Charles Bramesco March 10, 2021 | 3:00pm
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A Black collective turns a house into a sanctuary in the nimble and Godardian The Inheritance
By Vikram Murthi March 9, 2021 | 9:00pm
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Coming 2 America is a royally underwhelming parody of its predecessor
By Shannon Miller March 4, 2021 | 8:00pm
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A great sci-fi idea elevates Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland’s bumpy YA adventure Chaos Walking
By A.A. Dowd March 4, 2021 | 3:50pm
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Eddie Huang’s high school basketball melodrama Boogie bricks most of its shots
By Noel Murray March 4, 2021 | 1:00am
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Cop comedy Keep An Eye Out has the anything-goes absurdity of a closing SNL sketch
By Mike D'Angelo March 3, 2021 | 8:00pm
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Boss Level is a time loop of bad jokes, tedious action, and Mel Gibson villainy
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 3, 2021 | 7:00pm
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The revolution is in Mom’s zine collection in Amy Poehler’s riot grrrl nostalgia trip Moxie
By Katie Rife March 1, 2021 | 9:45pm
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Raya And The Last Dragon is a formulaic but sometimes moving addition to the Disney princess canon
By Danette Chavez March 1, 2021 | 8:39pm
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Underwhelming undersea road trip Sponge On The Run squeezes SpongeBob dry
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 27, 2021 | 8:00am
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The problem with making a Tom and Jerry movie is that you can’t make it about Tom and Jerry
By Erik Adams February 26, 2021 | 7:00pm
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Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry charts a superstar’s rise with home-movie intimacy
By Alex McLevy February 26, 2021 | 2:30am
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Cherry is an embarrassing bid for prestige from Marvel’s biggest hitmakers
By A.A. Dowd February 25, 2021 | 5:00pm
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Netflix’s Biggie: I Got A Story To Tell spotlights the personal side of the rapper’s life
By Craig D. Lindsey February 24, 2021 | 10:00pm
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For better and worse, the Wrong Turn remake takes some unusual turns
By Katie Rife February 24, 2021 | 5:00pm
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Oscar contender Night Of The Kings is a prison drama steeped in magical realism
By Beatrice Loayza February 23, 2021 | 10:25pm
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It’s the audience that loses in Lee Daniels’ bloated The United States Vs. Billie Holiday
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 19, 2021 | 5:00pm
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A woman falls in love (and lust) with a carnival ride in the quirky, luminous Jumbo
By Katie Rife February 18, 2021 | 3:40pm
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The wicked Netflix neo-noir I Care A Lot is just the right amount of wrong
By Noel Murray February 16, 2021 | 7:50pm
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The star-studded Noël Coward adaptation Blithe Spirit fails to enchant
By Caroline Siede February 16, 2021 | 6:00pm
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Two years before Birds Of Prey, Cathy Yan made a splash with Dead Pigs
By Katie Rife February 12, 2021 | 9:05pm
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Both maudlin and cruel, Breaking News In Yuba County deserves no special bulletin
By Allison Shoemaker February 12, 2021 | 6:55pm
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Supernatural or psychological, the slow-burn horrors of Sator are difficult to shake
By Anya Stanley February 12, 2021 | 4:05pm
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Nic Cage is a silent brute in the chintzy Five Nights At Freddy’s mockbuster Willy’s Wonderland
By A.A. Dowd February 12, 2021 | 3:35pm
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Netflix’s To All The Boys series ends on a high note
By Caroline Siede February 12, 2021 | 2:00am
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Kristen Wiig’s vacation comedy Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar is a silly, delightful trip
By Jesse Hassenger February 12, 2021 | 2:00am
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Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby embark on a frontier romance in The World To Come
By Katie Rife February 10, 2021 | 10:05pm
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Robin Wright battles grief, bears, and a bad script in her off-the-grid survival drama Land
By Beatrice Loayza February 10, 2021 | 3:55pm
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The Mauritanian transforms a memoir of unlawful detention into just another shouty courtroom drama
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 9, 2021 | 10:45pm
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The delightfully offbeat French Exit offers Michelle Pfeiffer her best role in ages
By Mike D'Angelo February 9, 2021 | 10:00pm
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Help! We’re trapped in the cycle of yet another time-loop story, The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things
By A.A. Dowd February 9, 2021 | 8:00pm
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Russia’s Oscar hopeful Dear Comrades! is spin disguised as a history lesson
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 3, 2021 | 6:00pm
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A timely pandemic tests one couple’s love in the otherwise forgettable Little Fish
By Charles Bramesco February 3, 2021 | 4:00pm
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Despite Owen Wilson’s strong performance, Bliss can only simulate a compelling sci-fi drama
By Jesse Hassenger February 2, 2021 | 9:00pm
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Sibling rivalry and diseased sheep drive the sentimental Sam Neill drama Rams
By Mike D'Angelo February 2, 2021 | 8:00pm
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France’s Oscar entry Two Of Us is a clandestine romance that plays like a horror movie
By Caroline Siede February 2, 2021 | 6:30pm
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Judas And The Black Messiah is an electrifying showcase for two of today’s most exciting actors
By Katie Rife February 2, 2021 | 4:00am
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The director of Room 237 cracks the code of simulation theory with A Glitch In The Matrix
By A.A. Dowd January 31, 2021 | 10:40pm
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Georgia’s slow-burn Oscars entry Beginning unravels a crisis of faith, one trauma at a time
By Katie Rife January 28, 2021 | 4:00pm
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Ghosts of The Shining and Barton Fink haunt the hotel corridors of The Night
By Randall Colburn January 27, 2021 | 8:00pm
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Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci blaze brightly in the heartbreaking Supernova
By Shannon Miller January 27, 2021 | 6:00pm
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Zendaya and John David Washington spar—and rage against reviews like this—in the dull Malcolm & Marie
By Vikram Murthi January 27, 2021 | 3:35pm
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Generic redemption drama Palmer expects us to buy Justin Timberlake as a hardened ex-con
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 27, 2021 | 12:00pm
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A24 horror rises again with the unnerving Saint Maud
By Katie Rife January 26, 2021 | 10:00pm
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Even Naomi Watts can’t fly above the inspirational pap of Netflix’s Penguin Bloom
By Mike D'Angelo January 26, 2021 | 7:25pm
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Denzel Washington returns to the manhunt business in the enjoyably clichéd The Little Things
By A.A. Dowd January 26, 2021 | 6:00pm
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Jason Segel is a rock of selflessness in the sugarcoated cancer drama Our Friend
By A.A. Dowd January 21, 2021 | 11:00pm
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Identifying Features is among the greatest, most devastating films about Mexico’s drug war
By Carlos Aguilar January 20, 2021 | 9:30pm
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1982 muddies a compelling historical snapshot with Jojo Rabbit whimsy
By Roxana Hadadi January 20, 2021 | 7:30pm
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Deeply felt daddy issues distinguish The Salt Of Tears from every other Philippe Garrel romance
By Lawrence Garcia January 20, 2021 | 5:20pm
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A confounding, oddly titled Oscar hopeful shrugs off its own intriguing mystery
By Mike D'Angelo January 19, 2021 | 9:25pm
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Notturno offers a striking look at the scars, but not the horrors, of life in a war zone
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 19, 2021 | 8:40pm
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Some Kind Of Heaven finds darkness beneath the sunny surface of a retirement community
By A.A. Dowd January 14, 2021 | 8:25pm
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The star-powered COVID drama Locked Down is nearly as annoying as, well, lockdown
By A.A. Dowd January 13, 2021 | 8:00pm
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Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes delve for meaning in the sallow period drama The Dig
By Katie Rife January 13, 2021 | 3:00pm
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Netflix’s Outside The Wire is Training Day meets The Terminator, but much less fun than either
By Mike D'Angelo January 13, 2021 | 8:00am
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The incisive MLK/FBI revisits the shameful surveillance campaign against Martin Luther King Jr.
By Carlos Aguilar January 12, 2021 | 8:00pm
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The White Tiger plays like Netflix prestige CliffsNotes of an acclaimed bestseller
By Jesse Hassenger January 12, 2021 | 5:25pm
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Liam Neeson moseys into Clint Eastwood territory with The Marksman
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 12, 2021 | 2:00pm
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One Night In Miami... pulses with the beating hearts of four legends
By Shannon Miller January 6, 2021 | 9:00pm
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The Reason I Jump is a deeply empathetic autism documentary with an experimental touch
By Beatrice Loayza January 6, 2021 | 12:00pm
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The Dissident brings a layered approach to the story of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi
By Noel Murray January 5, 2021 | 7:00pm
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Robert Rodriguez goes back to the kids’ table with the sweet but chintzy We Can Be Heroes
By Jesse Hassenger December 25, 2020 | 8:00am
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The moving Irish family drama Herself puts hardship and hope on equal footing
By Anya Stanley December 21, 2020 | 6:20pm
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Vanessa Kirby simmers with grief in the loud but hollow Pieces Of A Woman
By Beatrice Loayza December 21, 2020 | 4:00pm
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There’s not enough action (or Wonder Woman!) in Wonder Woman 1984
By Katie Rife December 21, 2020 | 6:00am
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Tessa Thompson shines in the old-school Hollywood romance Sylvie’s Love
By Vikram Murthi December 18, 2020 | 4:00pm
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Anthony Hopkins delivers the most heartbreaking performance of his career in The Father
By A.A. Dowd December 18, 2020 | 3:09pm
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Michael Ealy has a fatal attraction to Hilary Swank in the entertainingly dumb noir Fatale
By Jesse Hassenger December 18, 2020 | 2:00pm
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Armageddon is free family therapy in the Gerard Butler disaster movie Greenland
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 17, 2020 | 11:00pm
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The grim and grisly Hunter Hunter earns its unforgettable ending
By Randall Colburn December 17, 2020 | 4:15pm
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Paul W.S. Anderson brings more video game mayhem to the big screen with Monster Hunter
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 16, 2020 | 2:00pm
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Promising Young Woman is eye candy with a razor blade inside
By Katie Rife December 14, 2020 | 8:30pm
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Tom Hanks is the conscience of a divided nation in the old-school Western News Of The World
By A.A. Dowd December 11, 2020 | 10:30pm
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The first movie inspired by the pandemic is here, and it sucks
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 10, 2020 | 9:00pm
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2020 gets its Serenity with the epic “WTF?” of Wild Mountain Thyme
By Katie Rife December 9, 2020 | 9:00pm
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Farm life is beautiful and brutal in Gunda, a wordless documentary Babe
By A.A. Dowd December 9, 2020 | 4:05pm
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George Clooney returns with the strangely moving sci-fi melodrama The Midnight Sky
By Jesse Hassenger December 9, 2020 | 2:00pm
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Narrative coincidences distract from Farewell Amor’s thoughtful immigration story
By Roxana Hadadi December 8, 2020 | 9:00pm
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Meryl Streep improvises on the ocean in Steven Soderbergh’s playful Let Them All Talk
By Mike D'Angelo December 8, 2020 | 8:00pm
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Steven Yeun is a family man chasing the American dream in the soulful if lopsided Minari
By Beatrice Loayza December 8, 2020 | 6:10pm
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A former pop star journeys To The Ends Of The Earth in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s terrific new film
By Lawrence Garcia December 7, 2020 | 7:30pm
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Rachel Brosnahan is a moll on the run in refreshingly feminine gangster yarn I’m Your Woman
By Katie Rife December 4, 2020 | 6:00pm
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Black Bear is two dramas in one, and Aubrey Plaza is great in both of them
By A.A. Dowd December 4, 2020 | 3:35pm
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Hackneyed tearjerker All My Life plays like an adaptation of a “Live, Laugh, Love” sign
By Carlos Aguilar, Carlos Aguilar December 3, 2020 | 5:00pm
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Frances McDormand finds a new life on the road in the sublime Nomadland
By Katie Rife December 3, 2020 | 4:00pm
