If Gelila Bekele and Armani Ortiz’s “Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story,” the origin documentary about the rise of the…
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Movies about giant monsters have a legacy of being talkier than expected, and I’m usually willing to go along with them…
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Like the monarchy, Netflix’s hit show “The Crown” has struggled with a rapid decline in public perception. It was initially…
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The most gripping aspects of “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” don’t even have to do with…
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Criterion’s new Jackie Chan box set, “Emergence of a Superstar,” captures a fraught period in the career of a budding…
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After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat … all will be carved, this Thanksgiving,” Eli…
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Ridley Scott’s big-budget war epic “Napoleon” is a series of accomplished battle sequences looking for a better movie to connect…
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“Mountains,” director Monica Sorelle’s richly personal directorial feature debut, is an eloquently composed story of a Haitian-American family navigating gentrification…
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Matt writes: With the awards season in full swing, there are plentiful enticing films arriving both on streaming platforms and…
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With the arrival of the 29th annual Black Harvest Film Festival, I am again reminded of the spirit of the…
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