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The actor stars in this Civil War-era drama directed by Antoine Fuqua and inspired by a shocking photograph of an enslaved man.
Author: Manohla Dargis
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‘The Eternal Daughter’ Review: Two Glorious Sides of Tilda Swinton
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The actress astonishes in two roles in Joanna Hogg’s haunting film set in a creaky castle in Wales.
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‘Nanny’ Review: A New Job That Swallows Her Life
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Nikyatu Jusu’s new film, about a Senegalese woman who works as a babysitter in New York, plays like an immigration drama and a cruel labor farce.
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‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Review: Nan Goldin’s Art and Activism
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A new documentary focuses on the photographer’s struggle with OxyContin and her protest against the art establishment that took money from its makers.
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‘EO’ Review: Imagining the Lives of Other Creatures
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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
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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
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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.