A documentary about Val Kilmer offers a self-portrait of the artist that’s personal but not quite intimate.A documentary about Val Kilmer offers a self-portrait of…
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‘Midnight in the Switchgrass’ Review: Sordid and Derivative
Megan Fox, Emile Hirsch and Bruce Willis track down a killer in a film that feels familiar.Megan Fox, Emile Hirsch and Bruce Willis track down…
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Kate Beckinsale stars as a turbocharged action heroine in Amazon’s limp, derivative revenge picture.Kate Beckinsale stars as a turbocharged action heroine in Amazon’s limp, derivative…
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With this drama, the writer-director Agnieszka Holland tackles another complicated historical figure in the Czech herbal healer, Jan Mikolasek.With this drama, the writer-director Agnieszka Holland…
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In her best-selling thriller, “The Last Thing He Told Me,” a Silicon Valley wife learns the truth about her missing husband.In her best-selling thriller, “The…
View More Linda Dave Turned the Scorned Wife Into a ‘Hero’The Promise and Tragedy of a Utopian Community, as Seen by One of Its Own
“Better to Have Gone,” by Akash Kapur, recounts the haunting, heartbreaking history of Auroville, an intentional community in southern India where he and his wife…
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Glaude, the author of “Begin Again,” says that “No Name in the Street” (1972) “tries to offer an account of what happened between Little Rock,…
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez sees his new story collection, “Songs for the Flames,” as part of a thriving literary landscape in Colombia because, he said, “places…
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The status of “art” can elevate an object into something with which we struggle to live naturally. What if we were more accepting of art’s…
View More The Strange Joy of Watching the Police Drop a PicassoAvignon Festival Forges Ahead, Despite Virus Restrictions
The French theater festival’s Fringe offering is giving some respite from the pandemic, even as new rules to stop coronavirus transmission are making it harder…
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