Oh Dear, ‘Evan Hansen’
The film adaptation of the popular musical about teen anxiety is super awkward
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Author: Sara Stewart
Udo Kier Gets Fabulous in ‘Swan Song’
A legendary character actor’s first leading role in 50 years
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Val Kilmer: Man of Mystery
Documentary is a window into one of Hollywood’s great eccentrics
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‘Zola’ Ends up Exploiting Women Anyway
Sex work Twitter-thread film adaptation isn’t as entertaining or wild as it thinks
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Broken ‘Window’
The doomed ‘Woman in the Window’ adaptation on Netflix is about as bad as you could expect
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‘The Columnist’ Takes Revenge on Her Haters
Dutch dark comedy is not as clever as it thinks it is
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‘Coming 2 America’ is Deeply, Embarrassingly Bad
Eddie Murphy is the straight man, and that’s the least of its problems
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‘Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar’
A genuinely silly 1980s-style comedy from Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo
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The Bonkers Narrative Films of Sundance
Four new movies that really click with our current hellscape
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Rita Moreno and ‘Flee’ Highlight Sundance Documentary Offerings
Introverts have many choices at this year’s stay-at-home festival
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A Little Bit of ‘Soul’
Pixar’s latest imagines its most unrealistic scenario yet: a New York City teeming with life and culture
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‘Run’ Hurries Straight to the Action
A quick and nasty little mother-daughter thriller on Hulu
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Up From Appalachia
‘Hillbilly Elegy’ proposes that to escape poverty, you just have to want to go to Yale bad enough
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Don Hertzfeldt Returns to Tomorrow
The master of animated stick-figure existential humor is back
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Who Wants to be a Kajillionaire?
In Miranda July’s latest, a family of weird grifters skim off the surface of Los Angeles
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