The film folds warmth into the real pressures that define daily life in a Dominican community.
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This production’s magic sizzles in the cast’s gutting portrait of the Loman family’s striving.
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Kopple’s documentary classic is brutally revealing about the state of American capitalism.
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The nightmare of assimilation that Slanted imagines feels single-minded.
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A24 opens Wilde’s follow-up to Don’t Worry Darling on June 26.
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Chao is a boisterous celebration of the flatness and fluidity of hand-drawn animation.
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Bezinović never allows us to forget the provisional, ramshackle frivolity of his storytelling.
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Romvari discusses how her autobiographical first feature builds on her short work.
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This remake’s influences are clear, but it doesn’t really do anything with them.
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The film abounds in lightly satirical observations of a culture that treats art as a commodity.
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