‘892’ drags as uncreative look at institutional failing

Where “Dog Day Afternoon” garners sympathy for its characters organically and in postscript, “892” endeavors to emotionally control viewers from start to finish.
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Where “Dog Day Afternoon” garners sympathy for its characters organically and in postscript, “892” endeavors to emotionally control viewers from start to finish.
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Tethered to conspicuously directional source material, the film’s pushback against the defense system and its media corollaries is hermetic and anticipatory of recent events.
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Film beats Joy Diamond and Emma Murphree are here to round up some streaming gems — and a couple of duds too.
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The film positions its only point of intrigue as its lesbian romance, an insufficient measure given its lack of depth and inchoate narratives.
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There is no dearth of ambition in Robert Eggers’ third feature, which forsakes arid Viking drudgery — the kind mired in the myriad folktales “The Northman” sources from — for orgiastic, chainmail-clad antics.
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Fractals of sticky-sweet Americana fade in and out of Chloë and the Next 20th Century, the fifth LP from Josh Tillman, performing as Father John Misty.
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Whether or not you got the chance to catch these movies in theaters or from your couch, film beats Joy Diamond and Emma Murphree are here with four more March releases available to scope out.
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“Everything Everywhere All At Once” is a film as overflowing as its title connotes. It’s a wily multiverse odyssey that packs a punch; yet, it also unfolds like a set of nesting dolls, where each layer inches closer to a shared spiritual core.
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What is precisely horrifying about the provincial is, at times, lost on director Goran Stolevski, whose debut feature “You Won’t Be Alone” stumbles upstream, maladroit in its kicking up of gravel, dirt and whatever other detritus lurks beneath the surface.
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Onstage, Hadreas’ discography blooms. At times, what audiences experienced was more akin to performance art than a concert.
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