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Palm Springs

Worry not. Sarah and Nyles are stuck in time, but screenwriter Andy Siara does inventive things with their cosmic staycation.

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Hamilton

How does it play? With the same verbal and musical fireworks as the stage version, and with the same emotional kick, which is rooted in the casting.

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Pipe Dreams

The playing is generally astounding, and that alone makes for an enriching hour of public television.

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Be Water

For the most part, it's a very entertaining documentary, but one with curious holes in its history.

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We are Freestyle Love Supreme

Do you care about the evolution, mechanics and process of free-style rapping? Perhaps not, but it's hard not to be impressed, if not awed, by the spontaneous invention exhibited.

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The Flowers of St. Francis

This is not realism, neo or otherwise. But while neither Rossellini nor his screenwriter— Federico Fellini—were conventionally Catholic, both incorporated Catholic themes in their work

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Bad Education

Tassone’s rise and fall in this black comedy is mostly about his fall and hinges, ever so Greekly, on his own hubris.

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1917

Intimacy achieved by the movie's style and camera and Mr. Mendes's obvious devotion to what he's doing.

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The Kingmaker

The Kingmaker is a thoroughly entertaining primer on the past, present, and perhaps future of Filipino politics.

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The Cave

‘The Cave’ is also something of a talking-dog movie: You’re astounded it exists, never mind what it has to say.

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Corpus Christi

“Corpus Christi” presents us with something of a chewable paradox: Is the church, the conduit of salvation, denying Daniel salvation?

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I Am Patrick

Unlike a lot of historical drama, it eschews romanticization and gives one a real sense of how brutal life must have been in the early 400s A.D.

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