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Chuck Wilson

FILM

‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Says a Lot in ‘The Inspection’

Elegance Bratton’s stirring autobiographical debut brings empathy and egalitarianism to all of the characters, major and minor.

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FILM

‘Aftersun’ Radiates with Memory and Melancholy

“Life, this sonically rich film suggests, is very much about what we hear, but not necessarily about what we say.”

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FILM

‘Bros’ Is The Big Gay Movie The Multiplex Needs

A great gay love story that has the added bonus of maybe encouraging audiences to google such activist icons as Marsha P. Johnson.

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FILM

‘Breaking’ Banks on Tragic True Vet Story

Boyega’s richly physical performance overwhelms any narrative missteps.

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FILM

Colin Firth and Olivia Colman Stir in Sensual, Subdued ‘Mothering Sunday’

Each glance, each touch, is fraught with heat and a building sense of loss. This is the golden afternoon of their lives and they know it.

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FILM

‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ and the Dance of Young Adulthood

At 22, grace is elusive, and usually can’t be trusted.

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FILM

Queer Love (Almost) Wins in Russian War Romance ‘Firebird’

There is much to cause one’s eyes to roll in ‘Firebird,’ and yet, the damn thing might just get to you

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FILM

Olivia Colman Gives a Mother of a Performance in ‘The Lost Daughter’

Leda’s fractured past, which she appears to have kept at bay for many years, has come crashing into her present

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ENTERTAINMENT

It’s Lucy’s Party in New Peanuts ‘For Auld Lang Syne’ Holiday Special

Lucy decides to throw a New Year’s Eve party at an old theater, which she rents, need it be said, with nickels

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FILM

Kristen Stewart In ‘Spencer’: Breakthrough Or Breakdown?

More phantasmagoria than biopic, ‘Spenser’ is constantly shifting between present and past, actuality and fever dream

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