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Whitney documentary review: an 80s icon contemplated, venerated, mourned

Tue, Jul 03, 2018
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Deeply moving, truly tragic; a biography with a keenly journalistic but hugely sympathetic eye. Powerful compassion and a get-up-and-dance deployment of Houston’s music may well bring her a new generation of fans.

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The Happy Prince movie review: in the gutter, looking at the stars

Fri, Jun 15, 2018
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Writer, director, and star Rupert Everett’s labor of cinematic love, about the last years of Oscar Wilde, is a small wonder of contradictions: nightmarish yet sanguine, a bit sordid yet full of grace.

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Studio 54 documentary review: inside the velvet ropes

Wed, Jun 13, 2018
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A hugely entertaining exploration of the mythology of the legendary nightclub as something truly worth celebrating, and a towering Scorsese-esque drama of the men who invented it brought down by hubris.

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My Generation documentary review: when London was swinging

Thu, May 31, 2018
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A brilliantly thrilling look back at the flowering of creativity and freethinking spirit of 1960s London, through the thoroughly charming perspective of Michael Caine.

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The Breadwinner movie review: a daring girl’s adventure

Fri, May 25, 2018
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Beautiful and startling, bursting with both brutality and hope, this animated adventure is too intense for young children, but the brains and bravery of its young heroine will inspire older kids and adults alike.

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1945 movie review: a reckoning for the collaborators

Tue, May 22, 2018
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A quiet horror movie about grief and regret as spiritual possession, about rationalization and denial as immorality. We don’t tell ourselves stories that whisper, as this one does, The Nazis had help. We need to.

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On Chesil Beach movie review: no sex, please, we’re British

Mon, May 21, 2018
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This stilted, utterly implausible film manages the astonishing feat of being both histrionic and monotonous at the same time, trolling us with absurd clichés, yet doing so with a quiet solemnity.

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New Town Utopia documentary review: the future that never was

Fri, May 04, 2018
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A lovely, melancholy documentary about the planned community of Basildon in England… but really about squandering of postwar optimism with the rise of neoliberalism.

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RBG documentary review: though she be but little she is fierce

Mon, Apr 30, 2018
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A marvelous, funny, deeply moving biography of Ruth Bader Ginsburg from her rise as a legal champion of women’s rights in the 1970s to her ascension as a Supreme Court justice and social-media hero “Notorious RBG.”

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Mercury 13 documentary review: the even righter stuff

Mon, Apr 23, 2018
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An essential documentary look at yet another example of historical feminism that should never have been forgotten: the first American in space might have and probably should have been a woman.

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