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‘Minding the Gap’ a moving and brilliant skateboard movie
By on August 16, 2018
One of the year’s great, small treasures, Bing Liu’s extraordinary documentary “Minding the Gap” is like a deluxe skateboarding video, yet so much more. Opening Friday at the Roxie and »

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Lots of appeal to ‘Crazy Rich Asians’
By on August 15, 2018
“Crazy Rich Asians,” based on Kevin Kwan’s novel, delivers a two-hour blast of comic energy, contains a sparkling lead performance, and marks a breakthrough in Hollywood’s struggle with representation. Despite »

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Films opening Friday, Aug. 10, 2018
By on August 10, 2018
The Atomic Cafe: The 1982 documentary on nuclear war composed entirely of civil defense and propaganda films created by the U.S. military and other agencies, a cult classic, screens in »

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‘Cameron Post’ an LGBT coming-of-age film with heart
By on August 9, 2018
“The Miseducation of Cameron Post” isn’t especially biting or hard-hitting as it condemns Christian programs that aim to convert gay teens into heterosexuals via prayer. Yet writer-director Desiree Akhavan gets »

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Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ entertaining, incendiary, essential
By on August 9, 2018
Though Spike Lee has continued to do highly personal, passionate work throughout his 32-year career, some of the films have been, admittedly, hit-and-miss. But there’s no question about his latest, »

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Films opening Friday, Aug. 3, 2018
By on August 3, 2018
Christopher Robin: Winnie the Pooh’s friend, now grown (Ewan McGregor) is stressed and overwhelmed by life, but his childhood stuffed animals band together to help him find his way in »

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‘Christopher Robin’ upsets simple magic of beloved ‘Pooh’ characters
By on August 2, 2018
The 1920s “Winnie-the-Pooh” books by A. A. Milne and illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard contain a calm magic and childlike yet infinite fount of wisdom and wonder. The new movie »

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‘Puzzle’ a quiet charmer about one woman’s self-discovery
By on August 2, 2018
Jigsaw puzzling, as devotees call it, isn’t the world’s sexiest activity, but it inspires a life-changing journey for the undervalued wife and mom at the center of “Puzzle.” This modest »

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