Tim Wardle’s “Three Identical Strangers” starts simply enough with the 1980 meeting of identical triplets who, until they are 19, do not know they have […]
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A couple drives out of a city towards his rural boyhood home so she can meet his parents. He’s funny, not particularly good-looking, maybe not […]
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It could have been titled “Summer of ’83,” after the film it most resembles, “Summer of ’42,” the poignant, sensuous coming-of-age vacation classic. But “Call […]
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Five Cent Cine At Home: Black Panther
The blockbuster “Black Panther” is both a classic super-hero movie (not meant as a compliment), and an immersion into black thought and culture. It breathes […]
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Five Cent Cine At Home: Minding the Gap
Skateboarding is the ostensible theme of this award-winning documentary by first-time director Bing Liu. And while the skateboarding scenes are thrilling and exhilarating (even scary), […]
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The portrayal of working-class life in “I, Tonya” approaches “slumming it”— so intense, violent, and emotionally fraught are the trials and tribulations of the subject […]
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Five Cent Cine At Home: Sing
You gotta believe If joyful films like “Miracle on 34th Street” make you cry, it’s a sure bet you’ll tear up — and laugh — […]