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‘Leo’ Review: Adam Sandler Is an Advice-Dispensing Lizard in Netflix’s Animated Charmer
The actor voices a curmudgeonly class pet in this Netflix coming-of-age musical about fifth-graders facing their last year of middle school.
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‘Wish’ Review: Ariana DeBose and Chris Pine Voice a Disappointing Tale of Two Disneys
Disney's latest animated offering — a celebration of the company's centennial anniversary — introduces Asha, a headstrong 17-year-old determined to save her kingdom.
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‘Tiger Stripes’ Review: In Malaysia’s Oscar Entry, Puberty Is a Nightmare
Amanda Nell Eu's Cannes Critics' Week prize-winning feature follows three middle-schoolers whose bodily changes are accompanied by creepy happenings.
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‘The Marvels’ Review: Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris and Iman Vellani Are a Winning Trio in Nia DaCosta’s Heartfelt MCU Sequel
In the highly anticipated follow-up to 'Captain Marvel,' three heroes find their fates and powers intertwined.
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Critic’s Notebook: Three Debut Features Give Depth and Dimension to Black Mothers
A.V. Rockwell's 'A Thousand and One,' Savanah Leaf's 'Earth Mama' and now Raven Jackson's 'All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt' are revelatory dramas that shape and shade more complex screen representations of Black mothers.
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‘The Queen of My Dreams’ Review: A Charming and Fanciful Debut Tackles Mother-Daughter Relationships
In Fawzia Mirza's film, a queer Pakistani Canadian girl ('Sex Lives of College Girls' star Amrit Kaur) struggles to reckon with the chasm between her and her mother.
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‘Orlando, My Political Biography’ Review: A Playful and Cerebral Doc Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Radical Novel
Spanish philosopher Paul B. Preciado helms a documentary that links the eponymous hero of Woolf's 1928 novel to a multigenerational group of 25 trans and genderqueer people.
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‘Something You Said Last Night’ Review: A Sensitively Observed but Insufficiently Probing Family Drama
A young trans woman goes on vacation with her caring but overbearing Italian family in Luis De Filippis' debut feature, executive produced by Julia Fox.
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‘It Lives Inside’ Review: A Horror Debut About First-Generation Immigrants Falls Short of Its Potential
A teenager races against time to save an old friend from ancient demonic forces in Bishal Dutta's feature debut.
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‘Stamped From the Beginning’ Review: Roger Ross Williams’ Absorbing but Limited Doc Recasts Black History’s Narrators
The director of 'Love to Love You, Donna Summer' and 'Cassandro' adapts Ibram X. Kendi's influential book about the roots of American racism.
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‘Wicked Little Letters’ Review: Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley Reunite in Strained Period Comedy
Thea Sharrock directs a feature based on a real-life scandal that occurred in Littlehampton in 1920.
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‘Sing Sing’ Review: Colman Domingo Shines in a Subtle Portrait of a Prison Arts Program
The actor flexes his range in Greg Kwedar's feature about incarcerated men trying to stage a theater production inside their maximum security correctional facility.
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