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‘Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko’ Film Review: Low-Key Coming-of-Age Anime Gets the Details Right
The tale of a young girl learning to love herself (and her seaside town) might not seem fresh, but the character specifics pop in this beautiful feature
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‘I Love America’ Film Review: Sophie Marceau Tackles L.A. Dating in Glib, Shiny Rom-Com
If you hate-watched “And Just Like That…,” you might find similar shallow pleasures here
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‘Saturday Fiction’ Film Review: Gong Li Period Piece Falls Short as Spy Thriller and Backstage Drama
Director Lou Ye blends murky black-and-white and a soundtrack of background noises to enervating effect
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‘You Won’t Be Alone’ Film Review: Ambitious Horror Tale Collapses into Distracting Excess
Noomi Rapace’s turn as a 19th century Macedonian shape-shifter can’t overcome first-time director Goran Stolevski’s overblown style
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‘Jujutsu Kaisen 0’ Film Review: Anime Prequel Offers Solid Action for All Plus Easter Eggs for Fans
You don’t have to know the anime and the manga to enjoy this adventure involving young sorcerers, but it helps
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‘Dog’ Film Review: Channing Tatum and an Army Canine Take an Uneven Road Trip
Fans of Tatum, dogs and ostentatiously supporting the troops appear to be the target audience
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‘New York Ninja’ Film Review: Cult Movie’s Backstory as a ‘Lost Film’ More Interesting Than Anything on Screen
Not even an elaborate restoration and new voice dub by B-movie legends can make lemonade out of actor-director John Liu’s low-budget martial arts epic
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‘Hotel Transylvania: Transformania’ Film Review: Fourth Entry Is Freaky and Familiar, but Doesn’t Scare the Laughs Away
Adam Sandler and Kevin James have moved on, but the franchise maintains its gift for well-crafted, creepy silliness
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‘American Underdog’ Film Review: Zachary Levi and Anna Paquin Score With Corny Football Fable
This faith-based biopic works by emphasizing the relationships over the gridiron action
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‘Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time’ Film Review: Even With the Writer’s Involvement, This Doc Feels Vague and Incomplete
Decades of on-camera interviews with the “Slaughterhouse Five” author lead to a film portrait that still comes off as maddeningly elliptical
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‘A Mouthful of Air’ Film Review: Mental Illness Drama Bites Off More Than It Can Chew
Amanda Seyfried stars as a writer recovering from a suicide attempt in a tidy character study that never really digs into her emotional instability
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‘Army of Thieves’ Film Review: Euro Heist Caper Feels Crushingly Generic
“Army of the Dead” prequel has all of the mishmash action of a Zack Snyder spinoff without any of the idiosyncratic charms of a Zack Snyder movie
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‘The Nowhere Inn’ Film Review: St. Vincent Meta-Documentary Becomes Tedious and Trite
Annie “St. Vincent” Clark and Carrie Brownstein play “themselves” in a concert film that isn’t a concert film, but isn’t much else, either
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‘Small Engine Repair’ Film Review: Bromantic Hangout Tale Works Better as Comedy Than Drama
Playwright-director-costar John Pollono brings his work to the big screen, and it’s most effective when he and Jon Bernthal and Shea Whigham get to bust each other’s chops
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‘Mogul Mowgli’ Film Review: Riz Ahmed Raps Through Canned, Contrived Character Study
Disease metaphors and flat characterization overwhelm this kitchen-sink drama
