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Review: Skate Kitchen is a sharp look at contemporary teenage life
Crystal Moselle’s film is much more than a coming-of-age drama about young female skateboarders more
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Review: Mile 22 brings out the worst in director Peter Berg and star Mark Wahlberg
The pair’s fourth straight blood-lust collaboration is well made, but it’s bullshit more
Review: Maison Du Bonheur is a lovely meditation on the gap between young and old
Sofia Bohdanowicz’s first feature documentary is a touching film that’s part portrait, part character study more
Review: biopic Nico,1988 is eulogistic and hopeful
Danish actor Trine Dyrholm is outstanding as the washed-up former Velvet Underground singer and model more
Review: Never Saw It Coming is a modest thriller set in small-town Ontario
Once Gail Harvey finds a consistent tone for this adaptation of a Linwood Barclay novel, the movie flows along nicely more
TV review: Matt Groening’s Netflix show Disenchantment is a faded copy of Futurama
The Simpsons creator's disappointing Netflix fantasy series shows what happens when a beloved artist gets to do whatever he wants more
Review: The Meg is a toothless shark movie with an identity problem
Neither as smart nor as dumb as it needs to be, this creature feature doesn’t even know what to do with Jason Statham more
Review: How BlacKkKlansman confronts cinema's – and America's – racist past
Spike Lee’s biopic about a 1970s cop who infiltrates the KKK critiques film history and comments on our present moment more
Review: The Miseducation Of Cameron Post delivers mixed messages
Desiree Akhavan's engaging drama about teens at a gay-conversion camp suffers from uneven characterization more
Review: Cielo needs to be seen on a big screen or not at all
Alison McAlpine’s captivating film is both a documentary about astronomy and an essay on the allure of the night sky more
Review: Dog Days is an ensemble comedy with a shagginess that’s part of its charm
Film about a dozen Angelenos and the dogs that bring them together lacks an edge, but it’s got a great big heart more
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TV review: Rev Run's Netflix sitcom All About The Washingtons is shallow
The hip-hop icon and his family play caricatures of themselves in autobiographical comedy series more
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Review: The Spy Who Dumped Me lacks laughs
Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon's comic chemistry is undone by an antic, slapped-together Bourne plot more
Review: McQueen fashion doc makes a hell of an impact
Film about the late designer Alexander McQueen follows the standard celebrity template but makes moving connections between the man's life and art more
Review: Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda deals beautifully with music and mortality
Doc about the avant-garde musician’s life and work after a cancer diagnosis is thoughtful and compelling more
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Review: Scotty And The Secret History Of Hollywood is a queer retelling of cinema's golden age
Matt Tyrnauer's doc is a largely laudatory antidote to Hollywood Babylonesque accounts of Los Angeles in the 40s and 50s more
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TV review: Picnic At Hanging Rock series is artsy schoolgirl camp
Reworking of the classic Australian book and film about repressed Victorian schoolgirls who go missing gets nightmarish and sadistic more
Review: Angels Wear White is a sensitive drama about rape and corruption
Chinese filmmaker Vivian Qu's second feature is anchored by two strong performances more
Review: Our House is a ho-hum horror film
Toronto-based director Anthony Scott Burns does fine work, but the drama and the scares in this horror flick are underserved more
Review: Blindspotting is a fun but flimsy buddy flick
Director Carlos López Estrada's film about chocolate-and-vanilla bros is intimate, insightful and frustrating more