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Chad Byrnes

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‘The Woman In The Window’ is Draped by Dullness

You’d expect more from this dull attempt to reignite the potboiler

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‘Those Who Wish Me Dead’ Has a Fiery Heart But Flickers In Focus

This is Jolie’s movie – she brings benevolence and compassion to the role of a tough, independent woman who suddenly finds herself not only protecting a child but coming to terms with her suppressed guilt

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Revenge Of Ritchie: ‘Wrath Of Man’ Has Vigor, But Lacks Vision

This time around, the director loses the British snark, but still favors convoluted storylines over human complexity

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‘My Salinger Year’ Gets Caught In Hapless Rye

The characters are mere signifiers and skeletons in a universe that should be bursting with guile and passion

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FILM

Andra Day Gives Us All of Lady Day in ‘The United States Vs. Billie Holiday’

Even as “Strange Fruit” planted the seeds of Holiday’s destruction, it also cemented her legacy as a freedom fighter

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‘Nomadland’ Is A Transcendent Take On The Wandering Spirit

She doesn’t let anyone get too close, yet she empathizes with everyone she meets.

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FILM

The Best Black Music Biopics Ever

Dramatic, tragic, mythological, and purely American —it’s no wonder these stories have gotten the Hollywood treatment for nearly forty years now

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