HBO’s Paterno Takes an Unconventional Approach to a Cautionary Tale
As the title character, the usually galvanic Al Pacino barely speaks, a nearly-still center surrounded by smash cuts and TV-talking-head inserts.
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But for all my groaning during the film, I couldn’t help being haunted.
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Russell Harbaugh’s debut is swimming with hate, but MacDowell takes out the sting.
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Ready Player One Is a Lively and Agreeable Work of Fanboy Art
It’s a first-rate film fashioned from secondhand materials.
Isle of Dogs Should Make You Howl With Joy
In Wes Anderson’s latest, nothing fits together and everything harmonizes, magically.
Stanley Tucci’s Final Portrait Is Quietly Brilliant
As a director, Tucci appears to savor the step-by-step process of creation from both his characters and his actors, Armie Hammer and Geoffrey Rush.
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The Wobbly and Woozy A Wrinkle in Time Only Works When It’s Grounded
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Armando Iannucci gets that grotesque horrors often emanate from egotists, clowns, and stumblebums, from small-minded people with unchecked powers.
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It couldn’t have arrived at a worse time (or a better one, depending on your perspective).
Mute Is Meh, But Gets Points for Being Extremely Random
Duncan Jones’s latest feels like its plot has been laid out in a Mad Lib.
Red Sparrow Is Convoluted and Uninvolving
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Foxtrot Is a Punishing Drama That Toes the Line of Black Comedy
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Alex Ross Perry’s Nostalgia Is a Deep Look at Impermanence and Pain
Any film flooded with this level of emotion is worthy of our respect — and our tears.
Black Panther Is Unusually Gripping and Grounded for a Superhero Film
Chadwick Boseman is simply magnetic as T’Challa, the African king fighting evil in the guise of a wildcat.