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All of Us Strangers
(2023)
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Loren King
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Haigh’s melancholy, romantic ghost story, All of Us Strangers, was one of my favorite films last year and was unjustly overlooked by the Oscars.
Posted Jul 04, 2024
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Sing Sing
(2023)
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Loren King
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Sing Sing is about the power of theater to heal, create empathy and transform.
Posted Jul 04, 2024
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Thelma
(2024)
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Loren King
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An action caper centered on the title character played by 94-year-old June Squibb, a no-nonsense grandmother who teams up with an old friend, played by veteran actor Richard Roundtree, to avenge scammers who prey on the elderly.
Posted Jul 04, 2024
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Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
(2024)
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Loren King
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Bruce David Klein's film traces her life and career with plenty of dazzling archival material, film clips and interviews...
Posted Jul 04, 2024
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Merchant Ivory
(2023)
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Loren King
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Merchant Ivory is essential film history and a fitting tribute to both men and their brilliant careers.
Posted Jul 04, 2024
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Ennio
(2021)
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Loren King
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Rich with archival footage and career-spanning interviews, the film is an insightful look at what distinguishes Oates...
Posted Jul 04, 2024
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Ghostlight
(2024)
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Loren King
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The brilliance of Ghostlight is in its subtle depiction of the power of Shakespeare’s poetry to produce empathy and to transform, if we allow ourselves, to become someone else.
Posted Jun 13, 2024
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The Idea of You
(2024)
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Loren King
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Thanks to a smart script and tender performances, The Idea of You is both surprisingly substantial and genuinely romantic.
Posted Jun 07, 2024
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Sisters
(2022)
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Loren King
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The film tells a familiar story of family dysfunction and an overburdened, hole-filled social safety net. But it’s depicted with such specificity of place and character that it feels fresh and jolting.
Posted Jun 07, 2024
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Babes
(2024)
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Loren King
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Glazer, and especially Buteau, sometimes strike the right note of madcap and truthful. But such hits are mostly overpowered by misfires.
Posted Jun 07, 2024
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Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
(2023)
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Loren King
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Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill draw on rich archival footage and interviews with friends and Pallenberg’s two surviving adult children, Marlon and Angela, to create a portrait of Pallenberg as a seminal figure of the ‘60s and ‘70s counterculture.
Posted Jun 07, 2024
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Queen of the Deuce
(2022)
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Loren King
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Memorable both as a time capsule of the long-gone Times Square, when it was packed with porn, peep shows, strip clubs and pulsating neon, an era mourned by some but not all, and the one-of-a-kind pioneer who presided over a piece of it.
Posted Jun 07, 2024
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Girls State
(2024)
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Loren King
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[There's a] smart, impassioned, high stakes spirit that permeates the new documentary, Girls State.
Posted May 02, 2024
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The Peasants
(2023)
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Loren King
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Besides the alternately realistic and surreal animation, The Peasants rivals any feature this year in its cinematography, editing and score.
Posted Apr 26, 2024
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Remembering Gene Wilder
(2023)
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Loren King
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Remembering Gene Wilder is more than a tribute to a one-of-a- kind performer. It’s also an essential contribution to film history.
Posted Apr 12, 2024
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The League
(2023)
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Loren King
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It’s a superb baseball film because it places the game in the context of American social and economic history; it’s a sport film even for people who don’t like sports.
Posted Apr 05, 2024
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Frida
(2024)
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Loren King
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The many raw and revealing moments in Frida show why the artist and her art remain just as surprising, moving and relevant today.
Posted Mar 28, 2024
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The Reverend
(2021)
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Loren King
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Director Nick Canfield’s celebratory documentary, The Reverend, will likely defy any notion you may have about gospel music or ministry.
Posted Mar 22, 2024
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Origin
(2023)
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Loren King
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Epic and intimate, mournful and majestic.
Posted Mar 22, 2024
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The Zone of Interest
(2023)
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Loren King
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There’s never been a film about the Holocaust quite like The Zone of Interest, which focuses on the perpetrators, not the victims, and holds disturbing relevance for today.
Posted Feb 23, 2024
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Past Lives
(2023)
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Loren King
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Past Lives is truly a modern romance, rich with bittersweet understanding of what it means to live in the present.
Posted Feb 14, 2024
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Poor Things
(2023)
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Loren King
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Stone's masterful performance as Bella takes pleasure in her liberation, while recognizing and bristling against misogyny, and rises above the increasing, occasional self-congratulatory bizarreness of the movie.
Posted Feb 14, 2024
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The Taste of Things
(2023)
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Loren King
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Tran Anh Hung’s luminous The Taste of Things belongs among the great food films of cinema, such as the classics, Big Night, Babette’s Feast and Eat Drink Man Woman.
Posted Feb 08, 2024
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The Color Purple
(2023)
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Loren King
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No doubt the filmmakers wanted to end on a hopeful note, but the finale seems too idealistic. Yet the resiliency and power of The Color Purple is well earned and the performances from its stellar ensemble are unforgettable.
Posted Jan 25, 2024
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Anatomy of a Fall
(2023)
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Loren King
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Rustin offers a compelling behind-the-scenes look at the organizing of what would become one of the largest political rallies in American history... The role is a tour de force for Domingo.
Posted Jan 19, 2024
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The Iron Claw
(2023)
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Loren King
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The stellar acting of the principals, particularly Efron and White, manages to shine a light of genuine brotherly love into the relentless darkness.
Posted Jan 19, 2024
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Maestro
(2023)
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Loren King
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The film is ambitious and stunning in its visual and emotional storytelling.
Posted Dec 15, 2023
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May December
(2023)
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Loren King
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With shades of Alfred Hitchcock and Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, May December keeps viewers guessing and off-kilter, but in a good way. The film is subtle, strange and riveting; a heady mix of irresistible but uneasy entertainment.
Posted Dec 07, 2023
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The Holdovers
(2023)
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Loren King
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A wry, artful heart-tugger.
Posted Dec 01, 2023
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Invisible Beauty
(2023)
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Loren King
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“Invisible Beauty” is a gorgeous film to look at and one that illuminates an important aspect of fashion industry history. It’s also an indelible portrait of a one-of-a-kind trailblazer.
Posted Nov 27, 2023
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The Lady Bird Diaries
(2023)
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Loren King
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Porter’s film lets Lady Bird’s recorded voice be the personal testimony to cataclysmic events. She uncovered plenty of new archival footage that she pairs with the audio.
Posted Nov 16, 2023
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Killers of the Flower Moon
(2023)
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Loren King
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Kudos to Scorsese’s longtime editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, for a pace that never lags even at three and one-half hours.
Posted Nov 04, 2023
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Joan Baez I Am a Noise
(2023)
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Loren King
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The film has the quality of a memoir, with Baez’s hard-won reflections mixed with superb archival material. It’s an absorbing and honest legacy that is fitting for a 60- year career and an extraordinary life.
Posted Oct 12, 2023
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Flora and Son
(2023)
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Loren King
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Levitt and Hewson have lovely voices and an engaging rapport that blends a hesitant romance with the joy of creating music that takes them across the universe and into each other’s lives.
Posted Oct 05, 2023
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Lakota Nation vs. United States
(2022)
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Loren King
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It is a powerful historical corrective and is timely for the moment we are in when many are eager to censor and erase history.
Posted Sep 28, 2023
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Carlos
(2023)
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Loren King
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Carlos, an enjoyable ride through the life and career of Carlos Santana, is more than a music documentary.
Posted Sep 21, 2023
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Between Two Worlds
(2021)
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Loren King
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Juliette Binoche is such a consummate actor that she can easily blend into an ensemble and still emerge the charismatic star. That’s exactly the task she has in Between Two Worlds, an absorbing French drama.
Posted Sep 21, 2023
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War Pony
(2022)
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Loren King
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Keough and her co-director, Gina Gammell, [have] made a stunner of a feature debut.
Posted Sep 07, 2023
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Red, White & Royal Blue
(2023)
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Loren King
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Don’t expect a political comedy with much substance. Red, White & Royal Blue is easy on the eyes and brain. Mostly, it proves that a gay romantic comedy can be just as bland and schmaltzy as other pairings onscreen.
Posted Aug 18, 2023
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Rodeo
(2022)
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Loren King
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Ledru is a revelation, finding unexpected tenderness and empathy with a character surviving on the fringes, particularly in her scenes with Domino’s wife, played by co-writer Antonia Buresi as the two marginalized women find a common bond.
Posted Aug 18, 2023
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
(2003)
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Loren King
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Weir wisely grounds the intense but wearying high seas adventure in the friendship between Aubrey and Paul Bettany as Dr. Stephen Maturin, the ship’s surgeon who tends to the many wounded.
Posted Aug 03, 2023
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The Miracle Club
(2023)
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Loren King
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The Miracle Club is a modest, moving affair about recriminations and forgiveness. What makes it notable is the chance to watch Linney, Smith and Bates interact in this not-so-subtle but nonetheless touching tale about everyday miracles.
Posted Aug 03, 2023
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Barbie
(2023)
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Loren King
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Director Greta Gerwig achieves the feat of a delivering a big budget Barbie movie with smart and subversive social commentary, all wrapped up in a hot pink cotton candy camp valentine.
Posted Jul 27, 2023
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Pretty Red Dress
(2022)
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Loren King
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This gritty but heartfelt drama delivers a modern family with characters who are well-developed, complex and human enough to defy stereotypes without being contrived or sentimental, which is quite an achievement.
Posted Jul 20, 2023
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Chile '76
(2022)
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Loren King
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With Chile ’76, Martelli has crafted a simmering political thriller that reflects what it’s like to live under a dark cloud of creeping mistrust and the threat of violence.
Posted Jul 20, 2023
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Hilma
(2022)
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Loren King
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“Hilma” shows how the sexism and rigidity of the art establishment in her time made it difficult for an outsider and general oddball like af Klint to be recognized and appreciated.
Posted Jul 07, 2023
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It Ain't Over
(2022)
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Loren King
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The filmmakers assembled an impressive roster of former players, managers, baseball writers and broadcasters to talk about Berra’s skills and his later influence as a coach and manager with both the Yankees and New York Mets.
Posted Jun 29, 2023
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Scrap
(2022)
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Loren King
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The film is a metaphor-rich, immersive journey into a strange but surprisingly human world. It offers the chance to spend time with passionate, creative characters and a meditation on the things we abandon and the things we save.
Posted Jun 22, 2023
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Aloners
(2021)
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Loren King
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A social critique wrapped in a quiet drama and character study, Aloners is the incisive feature debut from South Korean writer-director Hong Sungeun and features a powerful lead performance from actress Gong Seung-yeon.
Posted Jun 22, 2023
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You Hurt My Feelings
(2023)
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Loren King
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[It] may be Holofcener lite, but it’s the rare adult comedy that doesn’t try to be more. That it comes wrapped in such genuinely funny, gentle and honest observations about life’s everyday absurdities is why Nicole Holofcener needs to keep making movies.
Posted Jun 09, 2023
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