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鈥楾he Bookshop鈥� evokes nostalgia for all things literaryFlorence Green (Emily Mortimer) loves books and decides to convert the run-down home she owns and occupies into a bookshop, the only one within many miles.
Rom-com 'Juliet Naked' is indeed romantic and comedicThe聽adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel is sweet and unprepossessing.
'We the Animals' continually wafts away into artinessThe movie, which focuses on a trio of brothers, is all nuance with no clear sense of place.
Can 鈥楥razy Rich Asians鈥� help redefine how Hollywood portrays Asians?Historically, Hollywood has misrepresented Asians. Understanding how offers lessons on more authentically portraying minorities, eventually making movies like 鈥楥razy Rich Asians鈥� expected rather than exceptions.聽
In MoviePass morass, lessons about risks, opportunities of industry changeMoviePass hoped to fundamentally change the moviegoing experience. A series of problems has put the company in jeopardy, but its bold experiment may help disrupt the movie theater industry. 聽
Landmark cast, high expectations for 'Crazy Rich Asians'The film, which opens Aug. 15, is an extreme rarity 鈥� the first movie from a major Hollywood studio with Asian-Americans at its center since 鈥淭he Joy Luck Club鈥� in 1993.聽According to a study released by the University of Southern California鈥檚 Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, 4.8 percent of speaking characters in Hollywood films in 2017 were Asian.
'BlacKkKlansman' tells a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story about the KKKIn the early 1970s, African-American police officer Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) joins the Ku Klux Klan, with fellow officer聽Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), who is white and Jewish, impersonating Ron.
鈥榃hat Will People Say鈥� presents a cultural divide with urgencyNisha (Maria Mozhdah) is a 16-year-old girl who lives on the outskirts of Oslo with her tightknit Pakistani immigrant family until her misbehavior causes her father to take her to live in Pakistan.
First LookOscar's new popular film category sparks backlashFacing declining viewership, the Academy of Motions Pictures Arts and Sciences has created a popular film award category. The move led questions over the category well-reviewed blockbusters such as "Black Panther" would fall under.聽
Sweet 'Christopher Robin' has impressive voice workThe film takes a while to get going.
'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.