Comedy
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The Becomers
Reviews The Becomers Immigrant stories put a fresh frame around lives that native-born citizens don’t think too deeply about. Science fiction…
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Between the Temples
Reviews Between the Temples Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples” opens with a loud, keening blast from the shofar. If you…
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Incoming
Reviews Incoming Movies won’t stop pursuing the next great one crazy night adolescent comedy anytime soon. You know, that “Superbad”…
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The Good Half
Reviews The Good Half “Are you lost?,” an old lady at the mall asks sad-sack Renn Wheeland (Nick Jonas) during one…
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Kneecap
Reviews Kneecap The Belfast schoolchildren stand in their classroom, singing “Óró Sé do bheatha abhaile,” a traditional Irish song, in…
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Harold and the Purple Crayon
Reviews Harold and the Purple Crayon As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955 hymn to…
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Art College 1994
Reviews Art College 1994 It’s weirdly funny to see a year mentioned in the title of “Art College 1994,” an…
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Terrestrial Verses
Reviews Terrestrial Verses “Terrestrial Verses,” one of the most brilliant and provocative films to emerge from Iran recently, has qualities…
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The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed
Reviews The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed I watched “The Feeling That the Time for Doing…
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Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story
Reviews Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story A handsomely produced, nearly empty experience, “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story” is hard to describe because it’s tough…
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