Author: Jay Gabler
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Movie review: “Train Dreams” turns petro-masculinity on its head
Writer/director Clint Bentley’s sweeping frontier drama is romantic, but not regarding trains. (Planes fare better.)
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Movie review: “Sentimental Value” explores the healing power of art
For a movie with so much to chew on, Joachim Trier’s feature moves with efficiency, finding moment after moment of gentle emotional truth.
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Movie review: “Hamnet” is the best biopic of 2025
The film makes the case for art as a means of transfiguring an individual experience into one that is shared.
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Movie review: “Little Trouble Girls,” a subtle struggle between church and corpus
“Little Trouble Girls” understands the power of a few days away when you’re young and hopeful, even when that hope is bound to be dashed.
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Review: 2025 British Arrows inspire laughter and tears
Amid a numbing drumbeat of discouraging news, this year’s ads arrive as a welcome reminder that it is still possible to actually feel things.
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Movie review: “The Legend of Ochi” is gratifyingly strange
What most distinguishes the tone of “Ochi” from similar films of that era is its absolute, unblinking sincerity.
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Movie review: “I Wish You All the Best,” a gentle but thorny coming-of-age story
We believe Ben, a teenager coming out as nonbinary, when they say it’s their parents who need more self-knowledge.
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Movie review: “Ballad of a Small Player” hits its notes too hard
The protagonist’s struggle with his demons becomes the film’s focal point — to diminishing returns, because we’ve seen that story before.
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TV review: “Star Wars: Visions” dazzles in third season
None of the episodes are anything less than visually dazzling, but Volume 3 saves the real pyrotechnics for the end.
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Movie review: Revenge is sour in “The French Italian”
Writer-director Rachel Wolther bets big on an implausible premise that “The French Italian” strains to sustain.
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Three Star Wars retcons Kenner kids can’t accept
Those of us who grew up with the original Star Wars trilogy and collected the Kenner toy line remember how real those action figures felt compared to the images we caught only occasionally onscreen. Now, with the movies available on demand and elaborate documentation available online and in print, we’re asked to come to terms…
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TV review: “Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy – Pieces of the Past”
It’s hard not to like, and no one seems to be enjoying themselves more than the veteran actors who return to their classic characters.