‘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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Author: Sara Stewart
‘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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I Don’t Want To Go Back To the Movies Yet
A career critic says: Stay away
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‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’
Charlie Kaufman, master of psychological horror?
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‘Class Action Park’: Amusing Ourselves to Death
HBO Max documentary about legendary 1980s New Jersey playground brings back the pain
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The Beat Goes On
Documentary revives the reputation of the Go-Go’s, one of the great bands of the 80s
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‘The Rental’ doesn’t quite check out
A promising setup falls short of its potential
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