UNION, KY—His eyes rolling back as the blinding light emanating from the display filled the room, local man Reeves Halko, his ragged voice barely audible over the deafening sound of cards shuffling faster and faster, confirmed Friday that he never asked for the overwhelming sensory assault of its victory animation.…
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Life Can Be A Mess, But So Is ‘Life Itself’
Life Itself, from the creator of This Is Us, launches two family stories on two different continents. It offers some lovely moments, but its grand ambitions are beyond its grasp.
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‘Colette’ Is A Thoroughly Modern Fille
Wash Westmoreland’s biopic of a French literary lioness is well-acted, gorgeously mounted and weighed down with incongruously modern speeches about sexuality and gender.
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‘The House With A Clock In Its Walls’ Is An Eyesore
The exquisite atmosphere and sense of foreboding that made John Bellairs’ 1973 book a children’s classic gets discarded in favor of a relentless riot of jump-scares and visual noise.
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‘Love, Gilda’: A Comedy Legend, In Her Own Words
This by-the-numbers documentary misses a step by focusing on the late Gilda Radner’s celebrity over her comedy, but it’s effective when it lets her recently discovered journals do the talking.
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Fast-Paced And Proudly Unusual, ‘Maniac’ Dives Into The Mysteries Of The Mind
Jonah Hill and Emma Stone star in a new, 10-part Netflix series about the psychological exploration of alternative realities and identities. Critic David Bianculli says Maniac is “a blast.”
Maggie Gyllenhaal Takes On The Power Imbalance Of Sex Work In ‘The Deuce’
When the creators of HBO’s The Deuce approached Gyllenhaal about starring as a sex worker on the show, she accepted the role — but only if she could produce as well as act.
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