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Critic’s Notebook: Despite Heartfelt Moments, the 2024 Grammy Awards Suffered From a Case of Banality
The telecast, hosted by Trevor Noah, was a slick and studied affair only occasionally elevated by surprise and genuine emotion.
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‘Reinas’ Review: An Understated Portrait of a Peruvian Family Navigating Political Turmoil
In Klaudia Reynicke's third feature, a father reconnects with his daughters during a tumultuous summer in Lima.
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‘Ponyboi’ Review: River Gallo and Dylan O’Brien Star in a Sexy, Sweaty New Jersey Fever Dream
The intersex actor and the 'Maze Runner' star play a sex worker and a goofy gangster, respectively, in a crime drama directed by Esteban Arango.
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‘Girls Will Be Girls’ Review: A Distinctive Drama About Fraught Mother-Daughter Relationships
In Shuchi Talati’s debut feature, a mother's intervention in her teenage daughter's budding romance creates an unexpected emotional love triangle.
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The Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the 15 Best Films of Sundance 2024
Steven Soderbergh’s haunted-house movie, new films starring Kieran Culkin and Aubrey Plaza, and docs about Christopher Reeve, unionizing Amazon workers, and Argentinian cowboys are among THR critics’ favorites from the festival.
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‘Little Death’ Review: David Schwimmer in a Darren Aronofsky-Produced Film That Trips Over Its Own Ambitions
Talia Ryder and Dominic Fike co-star in Jack Begert's satire about thwarted ambition and stolen goods.
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‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Review: An Enlightening Debut Doc Dives Into the Past to Ponder the Digital Future
Two women investigate the real person behind an educational software from the '80s, raising urgent questions about our relationship to technology.
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‘Will & Harper’ Review: Will Ferrell and Harper Steele Charm Their Way Through an Endearing Road Trip Doc
After the former SNL writer came out as trans, she and the comedian traveled across America to process her transition and reaffirm their friendship.
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‘Rob Peace’ Review: Chiwetel Ejiofor Crafts a Conventional but Stirring True Story of Talent, Struggle and Tragedy
The actor helms and stars alongside Mary J. Blige, Jay Will and Camila Cabello in an adaptation of Jeff Hobbs' book about a gifted young man reconciling his past and his future.
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‘In the Summers’ Review: A Quiet Debut Poetically Explores Forgiveness Between Parent and Child
Alessandra Lacorazza's first feature chronicles the relationship between a father and his two kids over four summers.
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‘Luther: Never Too Much’ Review: Dawn Porter’s Ebullient Tribute to a Singular R&B Balladeer
The director's latest documentary, which counts Jamie Foxx and Colin Firth as producers, explores Luther Vandross' career and personal struggles.
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‘Sugarcane’ Review: A Powerful Reckoning With Indigenous Canadian History
Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie's documentary investigates the abusive legacy and devastating impact of Catholic-run Native American missionary schools.
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