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‘Ride or Die’ Review: Killing for Love

April 17, 2021

The long take that opens "Ride or Die" could be reminiscent of the steadicam take in "Goodfellas", if not the unsettling mood it evokes. On a clear evening in Tokyo, Rei (Kiko Mizuhara) enters an underground club and buys a stranger a shot of tequila. The excitement rises when Rei and the man retreat to his apartment...

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‘Our Towns’ Review: Across America, Signs of Life

April 14, 2021

The documentary, "Our Towns," serves as a companion piece to the 2018 book of the same name, in which writers James and Deborah Fallows recorded their travels across the country in a single-engine airplane while spending time in places they felt the national media narrative had missed . A basic rule, says James in the film, was "never...

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‘Future People’ Review: Connected by Biology, Bonded by Love

April 9, 2021

The discovery of a legion of half-siblings could be the springboard for a bestselling novel by Jodi Picoult. However, this is the surreal story of Future People: The Family of Donor 5114, a documentary (streamed on Discovery +) in which dozens of children from around the country learn that they were conceived with the same sperm donor.The siblings,...

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‘Every Breath You Take’ Review: The Therapist as Trauma Victim

April 1, 2021

With every minimalist interior, ominously blatant music and a bluish-gray palette, “Every Breath You Take” predictably announces itself as a thriller. The film, directed by Vaughn Stein and written by David K. Murray, takes place in so many tropes it would be almost expected to undermine them, but the plot remains equally predictable.At a conference, a renowned psychiatrist,...

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‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Review: Let’s You and Him Fight

March 31, 2021

A couple of nights ago I saw "Godzilla vs. Kong" alone in my darkened living room. That was far from ideal, but it made me acutely nostalgic for a certain pleasure that I have been giving up for 13 months. There are many reasons I miss going to the movies, but one of them that I didn't...

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‘Six Minutes to Midnight’ Review: A Finishing School for the Nazi Elite

March 25, 2021

A lot of films have been made, not only about World War II, but also about the days before it. New angles can therefore be difficult to find. How about this: a Nazi girls' school in a coastal town in England in the 1930s?One such place existed: Augusta Victoria College at Bexhill-on-Sea. The school badge contained...

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