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Review: A Ham’s ‘Christmas Carol,’ Without the Honey Glaze

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|Date: November 30, 2020
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Review: A Ham’s ‘Christmas Carol,’ Without the Honey Glaze

It should, and not just because the film, streamable through Jan. 3, is vastly effective as spooky entert ...

It should, and not just because the film, streamable through Jan. 3, is vastly effective as spooky entertainment. (It may even be too intense for some children.) Based on Dickens’s touring version of ...

November 30, 2020
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Book Review: ‘Black Futures,’ by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham

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Book Review: ‘Black Futures,’ by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham

BLACK FUTURES By Kimberly Drew and Jenna WorthamThe best way to read “Black Futures” is, frankly, as slow ...

BLACK FUTURES By Kimberly Drew and Jenna WorthamThe best way to read “Black Futures” is, frankly, as slowly as possible. At over 500 pages, it’s heavy, literally and figuratively. Every page of this o ...

November 30, 2020
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‘Black Beauty’ Review: A Melodrama in Need of Rougher Edges

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|Date: November 27, 2020
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‘Black Beauty’ Review: A Melodrama in Need of Rougher Edges

Written in 1877, Anna Sewell’s classic children’s novel “Black Beauty” warned against the abuse of horses ...

Written in 1877, Anna Sewell’s classic children’s novel “Black Beauty” warned against the abuse of horses. The pristine adaptation streaming on Disney+ is a melodrama in need of rougher edges. Directe ...

November 27, 2020
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‘Mosul’ Review: In Iraq, This Time It’s Personal

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|Date: November 26, 2020
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‘Mosul’ Review: In Iraq, This Time It’s Personal

“Mosul” dramatizes a 2017 story in The New Yorker that chronicled a self-directed Iraqi SWAT team’s effor ...

“Mosul” dramatizes a 2017 story in The New Yorker that chronicled a self-directed Iraqi SWAT team’s efforts to fight the Islamic State. Counting both Condé Nast and the “Avengers: Endgame” directors A ...

November 26, 2020
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‘Zappa’ Review: Portrait of a Rock Star and a Nation’s Hero

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|Date: November 26, 2020
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‘Zappa’ Review: Portrait of a Rock Star and a Nation’s Hero

This documentary directed by Alex Winter opens with a portrait of the ostensibly outrageous musician Fran ...

This documentary directed by Alex Winter opens with a portrait of the ostensibly outrageous musician Frank Zappa in a moment of nobility. It is footage shot in Prague in 1991, two years before Zappa’s ...

November 26, 2020
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‘Stardust’ Review: A Week With David Bowie, Unaccompanied by His Music

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|Date: November 26, 2020
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‘Stardust’ Review: A Week With David Bowie, Unaccompanied by His Music

This motion picture, in which an unusually coiffed performer, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, si ...

This motion picture, in which an unusually coiffed performer, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, sings some Jacques Brel songs, purports to be a story about David Bowie.It’s called “Stardust,” a ...

November 26, 2020
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‘Superintelligence’ Review: Melissa McCarthy Has to Save the World

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|Date: November 26, 2020
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‘Superintelligence’ Review: Melissa McCarthy Has to Save the World

In this new Melissa McCarthy comedy, directed by her husband and frequent collaborator Ben Falcone (who h ...

In this new Melissa McCarthy comedy, directed by her husband and frequent collaborator Ben Falcone (who has a supporting role), she plays Carol, described by another character as “the most average per ...

November 26, 2020
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‘My Psychedelic Love Story’ Review: On the Run With Timothy Leary

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|Date: November 26, 2020
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‘My Psychedelic Love Story’ Review: On the Run With Timothy Leary

To induce dread in a paranoiac, one need only invoke two acronyms: C.I.A. and LSD Along with a third and ...

To induce dread in a paranoiac, one need only invoke two acronyms: C.I.A. and LSD Along with a third and a fourth — U.F.O. and J.F.K. — these were key ingredients in the alphabet soup of conspiracy th ...

November 26, 2020
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‘Kill It and Leave This Town’ Review: Grotesque, Bleak and Endless

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|Date: November 26, 2020
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‘Kill It and Leave This Town’ Review: Grotesque, Bleak and Endless

It’s difficult to describe the Polish artist Mariusz Wilczynski’s debut film, “Kill It and Leave This Tow ...

It’s difficult to describe the Polish artist Mariusz Wilczynski’s debut film, “Kill It and Leave This Town,” because the animated feature — plotless, gloomy and surreal — is more a direct translation ...

November 26, 2020
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‘Overseas’ Review: Human Capital

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|Date: November 25, 2020
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‘Overseas’ Review: Human Capital

This observational documentary is set in a training center for Filipino women who are deployed abroad to ...

This observational documentary is set in a training center for Filipino women who are deployed abroad to work as domestic help. Source link ...

November 25, 2020
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