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‘Militantropos’ Review: Austere Anti-War Doc Employs Formal Control in an Impassioned Defense of Ukraine
Billowing gray smoke intermingles with moody cloud cover, while scores of grim-faced Ukrainian citizens watch the skies, arms folded. The…
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‘The Last One for the Road’ Review: A Pleasant Italian Gem on Drinking Buddies, Aging and Wistful Flavors of Life
There is a kind of sadness that comes from living in a restless state of FOMO — or fear of missing out, as the acronym goes. The…
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‘Big Mouth’ Was Courageously Filthy ‘Til the End, but About So Much More Than Sex: TV Review
SPOILER ALERT: The following piece contains spoilers for the series finale of “Big Mouth,” now streaming on Netflix. It may surprise you…
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Spending Review: ‘It’s going to be ugly’ say Whitehall insiders
Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurak There is a joke, of sorts, doing the rounds in Whitehall, that soon…
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‘Caravan’ Review: Tender Debut Feature Focuses on a Single Mom’s Experience with Her Disabled Son
Zuzana Kirchnerová’s road-trip movie “Caravan” opens with a series of idyllic holiday scenes. A wide shot of a tranquil swimming pool. A…
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‘Once Upon a Time in Gaza’ Review: An Altruistic but Scattered Palestinian Crime Farce
Directed by the twin duo of Tarzan and Arab Nasser, “Once Upon a Time in Gaza” is about a collaboration of a different sort: a small-time…
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‘Honey Don’t!’ Review: Margaret Qualley Is Back, with Even More Panache, in the ‘Drive-Away Dolls’ Companion Piece No One Asked For. But It’s Throwaway Fun
Margaret Qualley swans through “Honey Don’t!” like a movie star who might have been born in the wrong era, but she’s going to make the…
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Julianne Moore, Meghann Fahy and Milly Alcock Work in Harmony to Give Netflix Cult Dramedy ‘Sirens’ Its Hypnotic Hold: TV Review
It may seem redundant for Netflix to order a second series in which a deeply flawed character played by Meghann Fahy is intimidated by a…
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‘Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk’ Review: A Stirring Chronicle of a Gaza Journalist Who Was Killed Before Its Cannes Premiere
Sepideh Farsi’s documentary “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” follows 25-year-old Gaza photojournalist Fatma Hassona, a story of a…
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Student suicide review says unis must act to stop more deaths
Universities in England have been told to step up efforts to prevent student suicides, in a review commissioned by the Department for…
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‘Eagles of the Republic’ Review: An Egyptian Movie Star Is Forced to Make a Propaganda Film in Tarik Saleh’s Catchy but Muddled Age of Autocracy Thriller
“Eagles of the Republic” is a Cairo-set political thriller one can slot into the following category: movies about life under autocracy…
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Maybank Securities positive on MAS equities review given niche in mid-cap players: CEO Aditya Laroia
The Singapore government’s attempt to revive its local stock market is a much-needed move to boost Singapore’s financial hub status, and…
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‘The Disappearance of Josef Mengele’ Review: A Post-War Study of the Nazis’ ‘Angel of Death’ Lacks Dimension
With “The Disappearance of Josef Mengele,” Russian dissident Kirill Serebrennikov trains his lens once more on the fault-lines of…
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‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Review: Spike Lee’s Kurosawa-Inspired Kidnapping Drama Isn’t So Much a Remake as a Manifesto
There’s enormous risk in remaking a movie like “High and Low.” Japanese master Akira Kurosawa set the bar high with his 1963 take on a…
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‘Shadow Force’ Review: Two Spies Get Dragged From the Cold in Middling Action Opus
When a now-defunct celebrity couple attempted to make like Nick and Nora Charles meets “Mission: Impossible” in “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” two…
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‘Marcella’ Review: A Straightforward Comfort-Food Valentine to an Italian Culinary Queen
If you can read, you can cook, and anyone who doubts that old maxim has Marcella Hazan as a compelling example to explain away. The woman…
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‘Sharp Corner’ Review: An Against-Type Ben Foster Grounds This Familiar Slow-Burn Psychological Thriller
To watch Jason Buxton’s “Sharp Corner” feels akin to witnessing a car crash in slow-motion. There’s a bleak inevitability to the…
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Mara Brock Akil’s Take on Judy Blume’s ‘Forever’ Is the ‘Girlfriends’ Creator’s Finest Work: TV Review
Inspired by Judy Blume’s groundbreaking 1975 novel and reimagined by visionary writer/ producer Mara Brock Akil, Netflix‘s latest limited…
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‘Giant’ Review: John Lithgow Is Incendiary in an Arresting Debut Play About Roald Dahl and Antisemitism
The biggest, most trenchant laugh on the London stage is nightly cracking up the audience at the West End staging of “Giant” — and it’s a…
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Don’t Buy New Jeans Without Reading My Review on J.Lo’s New Favorite Pair
Whenever Jennifer Lopez steps out in denim, it's a moment worth noting. There's something about how she effortlessly elevates the casual…
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Pump Up the Healthy Love Episode 2 Recap, Review, and Reactions
Pump Up the Healthy Love episode 2 aired on KBS2 on Thursday (May 1) at 9:50 PM KST. It followed Do Hyun Joong and Lee Mi Ran as they…
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‘Salvable’ Review: A Welsh Boxer Battles the Odds in Well-Crafted but Familiar Drama With Shia LaBeouf
The past-prime fighter struggling to rise above his hard-knock background was a screen cliché even when it fueled unexpected smash “Rocky”…
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‘Rust’ Review: Alec Baldwin Plays a Cold Outlaw with a Heart of Gold in a Buddy-Movie Western That Lopes Along More Than It Takes Wing
“Rust,” as the whole world knows, is a movie that was the seat of a horrific on-set tragedy. During the shooting of a scene at the Bonanza…
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Trump administration opens racial-discrimination probe into Harvard Law Review
The federal government launched a probe Monday into allegations of race-based discrimination at Harvard University and the Harvard Law…