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Jeannette succeeds in its earnestness, adapting its words from Charles Peguy’s works, but countering it with the pure, joyous silliness of its presentation.

Starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams, Disobedience is an adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s novel of the same name, about a tightly knit Orthodox Jewish community and the prodigal daughter who returns to poke holes in its way of life

Simply put, there’s not much suspense here, and Fly’s occasional efforts at thriller-style confrontations and killings prove less fascinating than Pasha’s justifications

Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife has a pungent scent all its own — a combination of baby head, breast milk, sex fluids and that acrid, vinegary extreme perspiration that either comes from bodily trauma or not sleeping for three days straight

… This is essentially Denis’ movie about the dating game — the highs and lows, the setbacks and surprises, the wine-filled meals and sublimely silent car rides flush with the possibility of either consummation or heartbreak

As they leap through the years, West and Cohen give us a compelling account of Ginsburg’s key cases, starting from her days as a lawyer with the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project.

For the young cowboys at the heart of Zhao’s film, mounting a horse and galloping across a field represents more than just freedom — it becomes a communion with the past and the future, allowing these riders to imagine and inhabit their best selves

At their core, both Overboards are traditional rich-person-learns-how-to-be-a-real-person farces, the kind of films Frank Capra and Preston Sturges used to direct in their sleep

Juno, Young Adult, and the newly released Tully are a fascinating trilogy. Each follows a character at a time of transition. Juno, Mavis, and Marlo are all people in stasis, but they each stand at a turning point. Director Jason Reitman discussed that theme with New Times at the premiere of Tully during its opening-night premiere at Miami Film Festival.

The story finds Simmons, as a 60ish Simmons-like artist named Ellie, dashing away from New York and her teaching duties to work and relax in a more successful acquaintance’s plush country manse

Told through the unique lens of this Latinx family, Vida is a statement on upward mobility and the privilege of being able to outgrow your home

Here’s a woman who has spent her entire life helping others and not being a piece of shit, and unless she or the club touched you personally, you probably didn’t know she existed until you read this or saw the film

After three years at O Cinema Wynwood, Popcorn Frights Film Festival, the Southeast’s largest horror film festival, is relocating to Fort Lauderdale’s Savor Cinema. There are plenty of reasons for the move, explains festival cofounder and codirector Igor Shteyrenberg.

… Bad Samaritan — with its title sounding very Grisham — tells the story of a low-level thief who breaks into a fancy-schmancy house and discovers a woman being held captive in a plastic-lined, camera-surveilled room

… Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman have completed their trilogy of self-delusion with Tully, a gently sardonic look at a 40-year-old woman who finds herself in a cluttered house, with a clueless spouse, preparing to have a third child

… This is an intimate portrait of the artist in recent years as she returns to Jamaica, the country of her birth and childhood, for a family reunion

Equal parts spooky and cheeky, this film nails its black humor and finds a bizarre but satisfying conclusion to manage all the loose ends

Tiny Shoulders starts to feel like a publicity exercise for the brand — an attempt to humanize the company by showing us the real women behind all that plastic

This epic, the first of two final Avengers films, finds the Class of ‘12 — the core Avengers — getting together for one last rager, joined by select newbies and spazzes from the ranks of sophomores and freshmen

The House of Tomorrow sticks to a time-tested coming-of-age template that’s as common in the indie world as the superhero origin story is in the studio world

Eighty-seven-year-old French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard stands as one of the most respected living figures of French cinema. The legend began his career as a film critic and helped define the French New Wave movement in 1960 with Breathless. Many of his colleagues, including François Truffaut and Éric Rohmer, have passed…

When the Tribeca Film Festival announced it would host a screening of the 1983 cult classic Scarface, followed by a panel discussion including the entire cast, I could not have called Ticketmaster any faster.