In 'Foxtrot,' Grief And Fate Come Together In A Brutal, Beautiful Dance
An Israeli soldier is killed, and his parents attempts to uncover what happened, in filmmaker Samuel Maoz's searing study in loss — and its aftermath.
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Barry Crimmins, A Mainstay Of Boston's Comedy Scene, Dies At 64
A month after announcing he was diagnosed with cancer, comedian Barry Crimmins has died. A mainstay of Boston's comedy scene, Crimmins was one of its early champions who founded two clubs in the '80s where new talent could try their acts.
Donald Glover's 'Atlanta' Returns With 'Robbin' Season'
Donald Glover's award-winning show returns to FX with a title that hints at its story — 'Atlanta Robbin' Season'. Because, as a character notes "everybody's gotta eat" and based on the trailer it looks like some robbing will go on.
Ballerina Gets Brutalized, Goes Ballistic In Nasty 'Red Sparrow'
Based on a 2013 novel, Red Sparrow makes us watch America's Sweetheart Jennifer Lawrence put through sadistic torture before it unleashes her into a world of espionage.
In 'Oh Lucy!,' A Woman Leaps, Wig-First, Across A Cultural Divide
In writer-director Atsuko Hirayanagi's movie, a depressed Tokyo office drone discovers an impulsive American persona when she takes an ESL course. The result is "quiet, and a little devastating."
In The Caustic 'Submission,' Stanley Tucci Is Small-Man-On-Campus
Based on the Francine Prose novel Blue Angel, this tale of a writing professor's affair with a precocious student is bound to "usefully ruffle feathers" by refusing to take sides.
Dolly Parton Gives The Gift Of Literacy: A Library Of 100 Million Books
In 1995, the entertainer and philanthropist started the Imagination Library, inspired by her father, who couldn't read and write. Now, it mails free books to more than a million kids each month.
Nick Kroll And John Mulaney Relive Raging Hormones And First Kisses In 'Big Mouth'
The comic actors channel the indignities of puberty in their animated Netflix comedy series. Looking back on his own adolescence, Mulaney says: "I was always mystified."
Spy Thriller 'Red Sparrow' Is A Long Slog With Minimal Suspense
Jennifer Lawrence is unconvincing as the star of the Bolshoi Ballet in the espionage thriller Red Sparrow. Critic David Edelstein says the film features "one bad note after another."
Siblings On A Strange Journey In 'Monster Portraits'
Sofia Samatar teams up with her brother Del, a tattoo artist, to create a new take on the fantastic bestiary. The result is a prose poem with jolts of autobiography, spiced with intricate drawings.