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‘Grey House’ Broadway Review: Laurie Metcalf & Tatiana Maslany Confront The Ghosts Of Man-Made Horror
When it comes to horror, Broadway typically cedes turf to Hollywood, the occasional Martin McDonough play notwithstanding. There have been…
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‘The Boogeyman’ Review: Stephen King’s Classic Short Story Expands Into Effectively Dark Psychological Horror Film Focusing On Loss And Grief
If the title feels familiar you would not be wrong. The word “boogeyman” has been the subject of numerous movies…
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‘La Chimera’ Review: Josh O’Connor Digs Into Italy’s Past In Alice Rohrwacher’s Splendid And Mysterious New Drama – Cannes Film Festival
A Chimera is something one tries to achieve but alas, never manages to find. It is the heart and soul…
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TV Shows
‘XO, Kitty’ Review: Netflix’s Korea-Set ‘To All the Boys’ Spinoff Is a Charmer
The series follows the youngest Covey sister (Anna Cathcart) to Seoul, where she hopes to reunite with her long-term, long-distance…
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‘High Desert’ Review: Patricia Arquette in Apple TV+’s Likably Offbeat Comic Mystery
The Oscar winner plays a recovering addict who takes on a new job assisting a private investigator after the death…
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‘A Brighter Tomorrow’ Review: Nanni Moretti Gets Nostalgic About Cinema, Politics and Himself in a Meta-Memoir Strictly for Fans
A Palme d’Or winner in 2001 for ‘The Son’s Room,’ the Italian director returns to the auto-fiction that first put…
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‘Kidnapped’ Review: Marco Bellocchio’s Intriguing if Overheated Historical Drama About a Jewish Boy Seized By the Church
The Italian auteur’s latest feature delves into an incident that occurred in 1858, when a secretly baptized 6-year-old Jew from…
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‘Asteroid City’ Review: Scarlett Johansson Leads Stacked Ensemble That Gets Marooned in Cloying Wes Anderson Whimsy
New additions to the director’s informal repertory company in this cosmic comedy about love, family and precocious geniuses also include…
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‘Club Zero’ Review: Mia Wasikowska Plays a Cultish Nutrition Teacher in Jessica Hausner’s Uneven Satire
Sidse Babett Knudsen is also on hand as a school principal not paying sufficient attention to potential disasters coming her…
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‘The Diplomat’ Review: Keri Russell Toplines Netflix’s Smart and Diverting Political Drama
The eight-episode series from creator Debora Cahn centers on the newly installed American ambassador to Great Britain. In a January…
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