The New York Times – Film:
A new documentary focuses on the photographer’s struggle with OxyContin and her protest against the art establishment that took money from its makers.
Author: Manohla Dargis
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‘EO’ Review: Imagining the Lives of Other Creatures
The New York Times – Film:
The titular character of this fantastic adventure is no Disneyfied, cutesy creature. The director Jerzy Skolimowski emphasizes his animality and un-knowableness.
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‘The Wonder’ Review: The Hungry Woman
The New York Times – Film:
In this period drama, Florence Pugh plays a British nurse hired to observe an Irish girl who’s said not to have eaten in four months.
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‘The Fabelmans’ Review: Spielberg’s Own Sentimental Education
The New York Times – Film:
The director’s latest movie focuses on a budding filmmaker a lot like himself. But Michelle Williams, as his mother, is the soul of this fractious family drama.
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‘Utama’ Review: This Bitter Earth
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In Bolivia’s official submission to the next Oscars, an old Quechua couple struggle to find water to sustain them, their crops and llamas.
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‘Call Jane’ Review: Abortion History That’s Being Repeated Now
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A fictionalized drama about the Jane Collective, a clandestine group that helped women secure safe, illegal abortions before 1973, is of the moment.
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‘Decision to Leave’ Review: A Labyrinth of Desire
The New York Times – Film:
Park Chan-wook’s latest, about a forlorn detective falling for his beautiful suspect, is an exuberant, destabilizing take on a classic film noir setup.
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‘Till’ Review: He Was Someone’s Son, Too
The New York Times – Film:
Chinonye Chukwu’s new film reminds us that before his gruesome murder galvanized a civil rights movement, Emmett Till was a 14-year-old boy with a doting mother.
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‘Pretty Problems’ Review: A Getaway Goes Quirky
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A woman spends a weekend with some wealthy new acquaintances and discovers something (though not nearly enough) about herself.