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Michael Atkinson

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Review: The Family in ‘Family Portrait’ Gets Lost in the Mysteries of Movie-Time

Lucy Kerr’s camera follows a sprawling brood, zeroing in on ambiguous intimacies and scintillating visions.

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Review: ‘June Zero’ Finds Ideals Mixed With Ashes

Jake Paltrow uses Adolf Eichmann’s trial and execution to plumb Israel’s contradictions. 

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Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Does Not Live Up To Its Title – and That’s a Good Thing

If you liked ‘Poor Things,’ you might feel that director Yorgos Lanthimos has bait and switched you with his current triptych of tales.  

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Review: ‘In a Violent Nature’ Relies on F/X Blood Pumps to Juice a Null Script  

Director Chris Nash gives us a head-scratcher of a film that also explodes heads like water balloons.

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Review: ‘Kidnapped’ Sees Empire-Toppling History Through a Child’s Eyes

Director Marco Bellocchio feasts on Papal skullduggery, but the meal could use more spice.  

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Gasoline Rainbow

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Review: The Ross Brothers Don’t Find Anything New at the End of their ‘Gasoline Rainbow’ 

The expected quotient of outcasts and weirdos stumble along America’s well-trod byways. 

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Review: Maya Hawke and Her Father Nail Flannery O’Connor’s Heroic Obduracy in ‘Wildcat’

Ethan Hawke’s earnest take on the writer could use less indulgence and more ice.

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Review: ‘The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed’ Is Comedy for Sadists

Writer, director, and often-nude star Joanna Arnow lets viewers decide what’s funny.

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Review: ‘Stress Positions’ Squeezes Wit From a Social Bubble as Tight as a Habitrail

Director Theda Hammel doesn’t always nail the pacing, but banana-slip pratfalls keep things kicking. 

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Review: ‘Coup de Chance’ Is a Rehash of Woody Allen’s Tropes and Tics

The 88-year-old director has become his own storytelling chatbot.

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