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Capsule reviews of 'Gallagher,' 'Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse,' 'Gaucho Gaucho,' 'Surveilled,' '2073' and 'Secret Mall Apartment'
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‘Wicked’’’s first half is flawed, but often fantastic
If you can get past that it’s a 160-minute adaptation of just half of the Broadway hit, Jon M. Chu’s film is a large-scale, beautifully mounted musical.
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Kieran Culkin shines brightly in Jesse Eisenberg’s ‘The Real Pain’
In Eisenberg's winning sophomore directorial effort, Culkin and Eisenberg play two very different types of Jewish guys visiting Poland.
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'The Fall of Minneapolis' is Orwellian nonsense
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'Eyes Wide Shut,' a sex movie with a strange relationship to sex, turns 25
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No, Mamaw: Don’t blame Ron Howard’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ for the rise of J.D. Vance
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Hamas doesn’t care what Steven Spielberg thinks
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'Deadpool & Wolverine' is less a movie than a corporate merger
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50 things I believe about movies
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Conan hosting the Oscars? This could work
Hosting the Academy Awards is the most thankless job in showbiz- but Coco could be the exception.
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Fin: Why I’m on Bluesky- and sticking with X too
Also: The CCA Documentary Awards, a documentary nobody wants, Lena Dunham’s FTX, Bridget Jones’ Peacock, and more from this week’s notes column.
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‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ is an electrifying documentary of music, history and politics
Johan Grimonprez’s film about the 1961 coup against Congo’s Patrice Lumumba is one of the most exhilarating and inventive nonfiction pictures of the…
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‘The Killing Fields,’ a harrowing film about journalists and the Cambodian genocide, turns 40
Roland Joffe's 1984 film was the story of a Cambodian journalist and his American counterpart.
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'Gladiator II' is exciting, but completely ephemeral
I had forgotten almost everything about the film by the next morning.
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The election results are not best explained by what most annoys you personally
You might not like, say, diverse casting in Star Wars movies. But that’s not the reason why Trump won. Also: No, Jon Stewart should not be president.
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Fin: The Democrats need to break their celebrity addiction
Plus: A new (maybe?) Star Wars trilogy, RIP Quincy Jones, a dubious Kanye documentary and more in this week's notes column.
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