Romance
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Comedy
A Family Affair
Reviews A Family Affair As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations shift randomly to fit…
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Jeanne du Barry
Reviews Jeanne du Barry In 1761, a 24-year-old penniless woman named Jeanne Bécu wrote a letter to a “dear friend,”…
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Touch
Reviews Touch “Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over decades, languages, continents, and cultures, with…
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Comedy
Fly Me to the Moon
Reviews Fly Me to the Moon “Fly Me to the Moon” lurches wildly from zippy, retro rom-com to cynical political satire to…
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Romance
Slow
Reviews Slow If I were to explain to you the setup of Marisa Kavtaradze’s “Slow,” my guess is that it…
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Romance
Turtles All the Way Down
Reviews Turtles All the Way Down In middle school, John Green novels were the quintessential YA diaries in which my…
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Comedy
The Nature of Love
Reviews The Nature of Love Writer-director Monia Chokri’s “The Nature of Love,” is a two-hour foray into longing, self-searching, and…
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Romance
Solo
Reviews Solo Under the glare of fuschia neon lights Simon (Théodore Pellerin) is twirling. ABBA’s “Voulez-Vous” is blaring, and a…
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Romance
Just the Two of Us
Reviews Just the Two of Us Valérie Donzelli’s “Just the Two of Us” is reminiscent of the “women’s pictures” of…
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Comedy
Find Me Falling
Reviews Find Me Falling When many of us think of vacationing on the Mediterranean, the first things that come to…
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