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Kore-eda’s crime story ‘Broker’ is beautifully, heartbreakingly sad  At first glance, Broker appears to be a sinister crime story with an especially disturbing angle. In contemporary Busan, South Korea, two men are in the business of “stealing” unwanted...

Keanu the ocelot, meet Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary  A critic’s confession: I love movies about nature and wild animals. As kids, we were wowed by Walt Disney’s Yellowstone wildlife documentary, Bear Country (so, evidently, was Ernest Hemingway). Later...

‘Babylon’ discovers new depths in obnoxious filmmaking Slowly, steadily, almost imperceptibly, standards for commercial motion picture entertainment—particularly in screenwriting—have been slipping, right before everyone’s eyes. Often the lowering process is barely noticeable. Occasionally, however, the dumbing-down takes a...

The hero of ‘Bardo’ discovers one can’t go home again Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bardo may be a bit too long (159 stretched-out minutes) and cluttered, but there’s no denying he’s sincerely trying to tell viewers something about himself...

A fantasy double feature with ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ and Martika Ramirez Escobar’s ‘Leonor Will Never Die’ Puppet kid Pinocchio looks like a convention of toothpicks, or perhaps an animated pile of splinters in the shape of a...

‘White Noise’ is redundant; ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ is the antithesis Noah Baumbach’s White Noise is a catastrophe for three-quarters of its running time. Probably the kindest thing that can be said about the story of...

In ‘The Inspection,’ a gay homeless Black man joins the Marines—and finds himself A young Black gay man in his early 20s decides to better himself by enlisting in the Marine Corps. We can already imagine the clearing...