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The contemporary Western ‘No Man’s Land’ covers well-trod ground, with a few pleasures along the way

The main action of “No Man’s Land” – the flight of a young Texan on the lam from the law in Mexico – is precipitated by something of a head-scratcher. When Jackson (Jake Allyn), the son of a cattle rancher whose land lies north of the Rio Grande but south of the border wall, is […]

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‘WandaVision’ on Disney Plus gives Marvel Studios its first true power couple

“WandaVision” puts to rest any thoughts of the Marvel Studios machine losing steam during a pandemic that has temporarily shelved two of its 2020 superhero films. And if you thought it would take the Hollywood superhero-movie superpower a bit of time to shift from theaters to whatever screen you stream Disney Plus on, well, they […]

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With sophistication and restraint, ‘My Little Sister’ tells an engrossing tale of sibling love

In the absorbing domestic drama “My Little Sister,” Nina Hoss plays Lisa, a Berlin playwright, wife and mother who is trying to save her brother’s life. Sven (Lars Eidinger) is a renowned theater actor best known for his 300-plus renditions of “Hamlet.” As the movie opens, he is suffering from cancer and Lisa has just […]

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‘The Dig’ is a movie about archaeology, but it’s also a lovely meditation on what lasts

On the eve of World War II, a self-taught English archaeologist, working at the behest of a Suffolk widow with a curiosity about what lay beneath several earthen mounds on her property, made what is considered to be one of the more significant discoveries in British archaeology. That may be the summary description of the […]

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Documentary finds contemporary echoes in FBI’s persecution of Martin Luther King Jr.

In the exquisitely constructed, deeply unnerving “MLK/FBI,” filmmaker Sam Pollard takes viewers behind the looking glass into the shadowy world of governmental surveillance during the mid-century civil rights movement, a program of spying, infiltration and harassment that reached its perverse apotheosis with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s obsession with Martin Luther King, Jr. Since King’s […]