Amy Nicholson
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‘Pain Hustlers’ Review: Seeking Dr. Feelgood
In David Yates’s film, Emily Blunt plays a single mother who takes a job at a pharmaceutical start-up with questionable sales methods.
‘The Persian Version’ Review: A Bumpy Road Out of Iran
An Iranian American woman navigates her family life and her personal life in this semi-autobiographical feature from Maryam Keshavarz.
‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Review: Tumbling From the Alps to the Courtroom
Did a writer kill her husband? In this cerebral murder trial drama by the director Justine Triet, the audience never has its footing and questions...
Book Review: ‘MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios,’ by Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzalez and Gavin Edwards
“The Reign of Marvel Studios” captures how movies based on comic-book properties came to dominate pop culture. At least until now.
‘Fair Play’ Review: Risky Bonds
One couple can’t achieve work-life balance is in this impeccable debut feature from Chloe Domont.
‘Flora and Son’ Review: Once, With More Feeling
The writer-director John Carney, whose feature “Once” made musical waves, returns with another charming songwriter tale.
‘Expend4bles’ Review: Band of Meatheads
Sylvester Stallone leads an all-star mercenary squadron composed of ’80s-to-aughts brutes in the fourth installment of this franchise.
‘My Sailor, My Love’ Review: When Romance Comes Ashore
A grumpy man warms to a good-natured housekeeper in this film directed by Klaus Haro.
‘El Conde’ Review: Pablo Larraín’s Grisly Satire of Pinochet
The Chilean director Pablo Larraín makes the dictator Augusto Pinochet a vampire in this horror spoof.
‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3’ Review: A Noisy Sequel
Nia Vardalos is back in a noisy sequel that cedes the punchlines, and the plotlines, to the more cacophonous members of the Portokalos clan.