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    Evan Rachel Wood is one of the interview subjects in the new documentary <em>Showbiz Kids</em>.
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    'Showbiz Kids' Gives Child Actors The Chance To Tell Their Own Stories

    Jul 18, 2020
    In a new HBO documentary, current and former child actors from Wil Wheaton to Todd Bridges to Evan Rachel Wood talk about abuse, money, work and finding your way as an adult.
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    'Palm Springs' Romantic Comedy Is A Total Winner For The Lockdown Era

    Jul 14, 2020
    Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti play misfit wedding guests who are forced to repeat the same day over and over again in a fiendishly clever comedy reminiscent of Groundhog Day.
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    Cristin Milioti and Andy Samberg star in <em>Palm Springs</em>, an offbeat romcom with a surprising amount of charm.
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    Kick Back With 'Palm Springs,' A Witty Romcom About Fighting Despair

    Jul 11, 2020
    The romantic comedy starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti finds two people connecting at a wedding and getting a lot more than they bargained for.
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    Captain Krause (Tom Hanks) looks astern in <em>Greyhound</em>.
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    World War II Naval Drama 'Greyhound' Charts A Trim, Efficient Course

    Jul 10, 2020
    Tom Hanks stars in, and wrote the screenplay for, this familiar but effective tale of a Navy captain leading a convoy of merchants ships through U-boat-infested seas.
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    KiKi Layne, Luca Marinelli, Charlie Theron, and Marwan Kenzari are part of The Old Guard in Netflix's film of the same name.
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    'The Old Guard' Is A Smart Blend Of Action And Emotion

    Jul 10, 2020
    Director Gina Prince-Bythewood knocks it out of the park with a film about soldiers who fight (and fight and fight), based on a series of comics and starring Charlize Theron as the boss.
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    <em>Welcome to Chechnya</em> chronicles the persecution of LGBTQ youth in this ultra-conservative society.
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    'Welcome To Chechnya' Chronicles Abuses Against Its LGBTQ Citizens

    Jul 08, 2020
    Homosexuality and gender nonconformity have long been frowned upon in Chechen society. Welcome to Chechnya is a grimly ironic title for a documentary that plays like a chilling undercover thriller.
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    Walter Mercado, celebrity astrologer and great dresser, is featured in a new documentary called <em>Mucho Mucho Amor</em>.
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    Walter Mercado, Remembered, With 'Mucho Mucho Amor'

    Jul 08, 2020
    Walter Mercado found his way into many tens of millions of homes as a television astrologer. A new Netflix documentary looks at his life and what he meant to the people who watched him.
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    What To Watch This Weekend: 'Hamilton' And 'John Lewis: Good Trouble,' Reviewed

    Jul 02, 2020
    The musical blockbuster about the political activism of the Founding Fathers, Hamilton, and a documentary about a current activist, John Lewis: Good Trouble, will hit the home screen this weekend.
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    Leslie Odom Jr. originated the role of Aaron Burr on Broadway in <em>Hamilton</em>. Like the rest of the original cast, he's available to watch at home in the film, which arrives Friday on Disney+.
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    'Hamilton' Comes Home, Just In Time For The Fourth Of July

    Jun 30, 2020
    The very good movie version of Hamilton, filmed with the original cast at the height of the show's popularity, will perk up faithful cast album fans — and new viewers, too.
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    Jon Stewart's Disappointing New Political Satire Is Hardly 'Irresistible'

    Jun 26, 2020
    Steve Carell stars as a Democratic strategist running for mayor of a small Midwestern town in a film that feels exasperatingly out of step with the present moment.
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    Steve Carell stars as Gary Zimmer in <em>Irresistible</em>.
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    'Irresistible' Chooses An Inopportune Moment To Get Glib About Politics

    Jun 23, 2020
    Jon Stewart wrote and directed a new comedy that stars Steve Carell as a political operative cynically descending on a Wisconsin town. Unfortunately, it has little to offer in the current moment.
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    HBO Releases A 'Perry Mason' Make-Over

    Jun 22, 2020
    HBO has released Sunday a 1930s-era noir mystery series starring Matthew Rhys. The new series has reimagined 1950's courtroom drama, Perry Mason.
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    In Defense Of Jazz Biopics: Melodramas And Morality Tales, Set To Music

    Jun 16, 2020
    Many jazz fans hate biopic films, but critic Kevin Whitehead likes noticing which true elements get in — or get left out — as messy lives are squeezed into stock-story formulas.
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    Four black war veterans (Isiah Whitlock Jr., Norm Lewis, Clarke Peters and Delroy Lindo) and one veteran's son (Jonathan Majors) return to Vietnam in <em>Da 5 Bloods.</em>
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    Spike Lee's 'Da 5 Bloods' Is A Platoon Picture, Heist Thriller And History Lesson

    Jun 11, 2020
    Decades after the war, four black veterans return to Vietnam to recover a stash of buried gold. The timely film is a critique of the U.S.' long, shameful history of devaluing its black soldiers.
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    Shirley Jackson (Elisabeth Moss) and her long-term houseguest Rose (Odessa Young) form an unusual bond in <em>Shirley. </em>The film mixes fact and fiction to explore the life of the American writer best known for her short story "The Lottery."
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    Elisabeth Moss Shines As Writer Shirley Jackson In This Smart, Surprising Film

    Jun 04, 2020
    Shirley mixes fact and fiction as it explores the life of the writer best known for the short story "The Lottery." This unusual film isn't so much a biopic as it is a biographical-literary fantasia.
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    What Movies Hollywood Prepared For The Reopening Of Theaters

    May 25, 2020
    Memorial Day usually means the start of Hollywood's blockbuster season — except this summer is different. But if movie theaters do reopen soon, Hollywood has few premiers to revive the industry.
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    When 8-year-old Cody (Lucas Jaye) temporarily moves into the house next door to Del (Brian Dennehy), the two strike up an unlikely, intergenerational friendship. Dennehy <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/04/16/836262391/tony-award-winning-actor-brian-den
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    Brian Dennehy's 'Driveways' Performance Is Gruff, Graceful — And A Goodbye

    May 07, 2020
    Dennehy, who died April 15, plays a suburban widower who befriends a mother and her son in one of his last films. It's the kind of deeply lived-in performance that Dennehy was known for.
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    French Satire 'Deerskin' Opens Online — But Will Share Proceeds With Movie Theaters

    May 01, 2020
    French satire Deerskin was scheduled to screen in movie theaters this week. Instead, it is now opening online and will help theaters with the money earned on streaming views.
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    Kris (Amber Havard), a directionless 14-year-old, finds a possible purpose in <em>Bull</em>.
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    Troubled Teen Finds New Direction In Clear-Eyed 'Bull'

    Apr 30, 2020
    A 14-year-old girl finds herself drawn to bull riding in this "humble and low-key to a fault" debut feature.
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    Georges (Jean Dujardin) goes beyond the fringe in <em>Deerskin</em>.
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    'Deerskin' Is Buckwild

    Apr 23, 2020
    A man (Jean Dujardin) becomes obsessed with a deerskin jacket — and pretending to be a film director — in a dark comedy that is "both outlandish and slight."
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    For years, Karen and Barry Mason ran a Los Angeles bookshop that sold and distributed gay pornography.
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    The Mom-And-Pop Bookstore That Sold Gay Porn: 'Circus Of Books'

    Apr 23, 2020
    Rachel Mason and her siblings grew up unaware that their parents ran a gay bookstore. Her "affectionate but thinly realized" documentary skims the surface of stories that deserve deeper dives.
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    Outlaw Ned Kelly (George Mackay) slings his guns in<em> True History of the Kelly Gang.</em>
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    Portrait Of The Outlaw As A Young Man: 'True History Of The Kelly Gang'

    Apr 23, 2020
    This slyly subversive revisionist take on an infamous Australian outlaw presents the burnished popular myth and a darker, brutal and tragicomic take alongside one another.
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    Selah (Lovie Simone) rules the school in <em>Selah and the Spades.</em>
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    Assured Debut 'Selah And The Spades' Explores The Thin Line Between Clique And Cult

    Apr 16, 2020
    Set at an elite, ethnically diverse boarding school, Tayarisha Poe's first feature is "a YA gangster movie that doubles as a soulful meditation on the beauty and danger of power."
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    Hilma af Klint paints in the streaming-on-demand documentary <em>Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint.</em>
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    Documentary 'Beyond The Visible: Hilma Af Klint' Makes Solid Case For Abstract Artist

    Apr 16, 2020
    This documentary about an under-recognized abstract painter presents "an extensive case for Klint as a major artist while casting a jaundiced eye on how art history gets written."
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    Delivery van driver Ricky (Kris Hitchen) takes a break with his his daughter (Katie Proctor) in the Ken Loach drama <em>Sorry We Missed You</em>.
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    3 Movies That Strike A Balance Between Escapism And Anxiety

    Apr 14, 2020
    What to watch next while sheltering in place? Critic Justin Chang recommends Sorry We Missed You, Green for Danger and My Neighbor Totoro.
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