When it features its stars singing the Neil Diamond songbook, this biopic delights. Otherwise, it's a depressing slog.
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Movie and Music Reviews: ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,’ plus Pavlov’s Dog and the Dream Syndicate
It's far from the exhilarating, upbeat tale that some fans might expect. Though we see a few snippets of Bruce in concert, rocking out in front of adoring fans, the lion’s share of this movie captures a very different offstage persona.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’ – Starring Judy Greer
Judy Greer heads a cast featuring talented child actors in an emotional holiday tale.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: Bradley Cooper’s ‘Is This Thing On?’
In Bradley Cooper's third outing as director, Will Arnett and Laura Dern portray a couple whose separation leads to an unpredictable midlife catharsis.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ from Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch constructs three scenarios about family, all different, but all revealing isolation between adult children and their parents.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost’
Ben Stiller's documentary chronicles his parents as iconic humorists and an integral part of American TV culture in the 1960s and 1970s.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: Jodie Foster in ‘A Private Life’
In 'A Private Life' Jodie Foster is an American psychoanalyst in Paris whose world upends with the unexpected death of a patient. Was it murder?
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘Anemone,’ Daniel Day-Lewis’ Exceptional Return
'Anemone' is a family drama about lives upended by political and personal violence. The characters receive a second chance at reconciliation through one brother's love for the other.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘After the Hunt’ with Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield
In 'After the Hunt,' a professor's life upends after a Ph.D. student accuses another professor of sexual assault.
Read More »New York Film Festival Review: ‘Late Fame’ with Willem Dafoe
In 'Late Fame' a former poet (Willem Dafoe) is lured with flattery into a salon of wannabe poets, whose authenticity is suspect.
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