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'Far From the Tree' chronicles very different children, parentsAuthor and psychologist Andrew Solomon鈥檚 bestselling 2012 book 'Far From the Tree' chronicled some 300 case histories of families in which a child and the child鈥檚 parents were vastly unalike. Rachel Dretzin鈥檚 documentary draws on his book.
'Eighth Grade' is a gently humorous and nuanced portrait of middle schoolIt鈥檚 rare to see a movie about middle school years that looks and sounds as right as 'Eighth Grade,' which is written and directed by Bo Burnham.
Documentary 鈥楧ark Money鈥� is close to a political thrillerDirector Kimberly Reed goes out of her way to present all sides of the controversy 鈥� which is not to say that she doesn鈥檛 clearly delineate, through vast documentation and testimony, her indignation at what Citizens United has wrought.聽
'Mission: Impossible - Fallout' has a core of feeling but is a little too longAs summer franchise movies go, 'Mission: Impossible 鈥� Fallout' is near the top of the heap.
First LookFilm series poses theory question: Is there a 鈥榝emale gaze'?The Lincoln Center in New York will highlight 36 films shot by 23 female cinematographers to explore the perspectives of women behind the camera. Only 4 percent of cinematography society members are women.聽
MoviePass has changed moviegoing 鈥� will it last?MoviePass made a huge splash in August 2017 when it lowered its monthly unlimited rate to $9.95. Observers are unsure if it's sustainable, but it's already disrupted the movie theater industry.
Sequel 'Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again' appears 10 years after originalThe film cuts back and forth between the present and 1979, when Donna, blandly played as a young woman by Lily James, met her three beaus and went gaga for Greece.
'Custody' doesn鈥檛 skimp on the ordeal of the child in a custody battleXavier Legrand鈥檚 intense debut feature, 'Custody,'聽at times presents people more as symbols than as individuals.
'Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti' chronicles Gauguin鈥檚 desire to see a new wayIt鈥檚 a perplexing, fascinating, maddening movie, not quite like any other film biography of a famous painter.
'Shock and Awe' is a rote piece of workThe movie, which proves聽yet again that righteousness does not in itself make for a good film,聽depicts the work of the聽Knight Ridder journalists who worked in the lead-up to the 2003 Iraq War.
'Sorry to Bother You' eventually loses its way in a welter of surrealityThere鈥檚 a promising satirical idea embedded in 'Sorry to Bother You,' but the writer-director, Boots Riley, doesn鈥檛 quite know how to extricate it.
5 movies you should see this monthViewers will rejoice in the hopes of immigrants while watching 'En el S茅ptimo D铆a,' one of Monitor critic Peter Rainer's best movies of June.
'Three Identical Strangers' is a true story that could only be believed because it actually happenedIn 1980, through sheer coincidence, 19-year-olds Robert Shafran and Eddy Galland discovered they are identical twins separated at birth. When their story was trumpeted in the media, 19-year-old David Kellman saw the photos and realized he was their triplet.
'Leave No Trace' shows empathy for those on the fringes of societyBen Foster stars as Will, a war veteran and widower with post-traumatic stress disorder who has been living undercover with daughter Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie) in a large public nature preserve in Portland, Ore.
First LookHow two documentaries became summer box office hits'Won't You Be My Neighbor?' and 'RBG' made unlikely box office stars of their subjects. The two documentaries serve as reminders to be kind and helpful 鈥� a聽message that is missing from the news,聽those behind the film said. 聽
First Look'Jurassic World,' 'Incredibles 2' make for Hollywood's fourth-largest weekend everHollywood raked in $280 million in ticket sales in the United States and Canada, roughly double what it made the same weekend last year. The largest factor: "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" roaring past bad reviews to open with $150 million.聽- 'The Catcher Was a Spy' is more pallid than its eminently juicy subject deservesPaul Rudd stars as聽Morris 'Moe' Berg, a middling catcher in baseball鈥檚 major leagues who was recruited by US military intelligence to spy on and possibly assassinate physicist Werner Heisenberg.
- The cast outshines the material in road trip movie 鈥楤oundaries鈥�Because of聽Christopher Plummer and Vera Farmiga,聽'Boundaries,' which might have been cooked up by a screenwriting program called RoadMovie, is halfway tolerable.
'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' is the latest and arguably least of the seriesChris聽Pratt brings a wry insouciance to the mayhem and the escape from Isla Nublar has its modicum of thrills.
First LookTo encourage diversity in Hollywood, a proposed tax creditCalifornia's proposed budget includes a tax credit for movie productions made in state that would require reporting diversity statistics and have sexual harassment protections in place for its employees. Credits would be awarded to "below the line" hiring practices, not just for starring actors and directors.
