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Three Identical Strangers descends into a truly disturbing rabbit hole

Reunited triplets uncover the shocking truth behind their separation in Tim Wardle's mindbending doc.

Whitney Houston documentary shaped by abuse and trauma

A sense of absence is evident right from a childhood apparently built on neglect, deception, and worse.

Lover For a Day loads up on the new wave boffing

Writer-director Philippe Garrel is an expert at this sort of thing.

Infinite Football scores on own goal

Infinite patience is required of viewers who stumble upon this movie.

Ant-Man and the Wasp offers disposable, action-packed fun with size-play

What's interesting is how well-timed that delivering something downsized actually works.

A country's identity is created in Design Canada

Greg Durrell's doc argues that graphic imagery helped a nation to find itself.

Uncle Drew throws up an airball

A surprisingly sluggish movie that spends an hour doing Barbershop-ish setups for a payoff that's rushed.

Indonesian feminist revenge gets a spaghetti-western treatment in Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts

The movie is a marvel of highly controlled visual elements.

Ben Foster goes off the grid in Leave No Trace

A haunted veteran and his daughter flee from the modern world in Debra Granik's fine film.

Christopher Plummer weeds his way through Boundaries

It’s left entirely to the actors to oversell their thin material, and the effort is all too visible.

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