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Two brothers reconnect over a lost love in this drama from the Chinese filmmaker Zhang Lu.
Author: Beandrea July
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‘Make People Better’ Review: Clear Science, Confusing Storytelling
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This muddy documentary dives into a complex story of genomic discovery, biomedical ethics and covert dealings.
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‘Ainbo’ Review: Saved by a Princess
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The eponymous young huntress of this animated feature forges a plan to protect her village in the Amazon rainforest.
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‘The People We Hate at the Wedding’ Review: Drunk People With Secrets
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A star-studded cast led by Allison Janney adds luster to this breezy family comedy.
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‘Enola Holmes 2’ Review: A Clever Force of Nature
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Millie Bobby Brown delivers an understated, playful performance in this young-adult mystery sequel.
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‘Voodoo Macbeth’ Review: A Tiresome Curse
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A historical look back at Orson Welles’s production of “Macbeth” with an all-Black cast in Harlem in the 1930s.
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‘The Picture Taker’ Review: Civil Rights Photographer and F.B.I. Informant
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The documentary, by the director of “Who Killed Malcolm X?,” is a compelling biography of Ernest Withers, whose photographs helped chronicle Black history.
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Review: In ‘To Leslie,’ an Unflinching Working-Class Elegy
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The small-budget indie is a complex portrait of the ways that trauma and addiction haunt an alcoholic mother, and her family, in the South.
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‘Ten Tricks’ Review: Trying to Drum Up Some Magic
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In Richard Pagano’s indie comedy, Lea Thompson plays a brothel’s business-savvy madam with a ticking biological clock.