The New York Times – Film:
Millie Bobby Brown delivers an understated, playful performance in this young-adult mystery sequel.
Author: Beandrea July
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‘Voodoo Macbeth’ Review: A Tiresome Curse
The New York Times – Film:
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.
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‘The Silent Twins’ Review: Keeping the World at Bay
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A beguiling look at the complicated story of the real-life twins June and Jennifer Gibbons, who lived in a mental institution for over a decade.
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‘The Bengali’ Review: A Woman Reconnecting to Her Roots
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In this travelogue-meets-mystery documentary, a granddaughter seeks out her grandfather’s past.
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‘Mija’ Review: Hitting the Notes
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In this documentary, a new generation of Mexican American musicians reflect the nuances of their realities on both sides of the border.