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You won’t see a better example of pure cinematic storytelling this year than “The Parts You Lose,” an engrossing thriller about a young boy named Wesley (Danny Murphy) who befriends an injured criminal in hiding. Most...

There’s a tender, heartbreaking scene in Pedro Almodovar’s excellent “Pain and Glory,” in which one character asks another if the pain he caused him derailed his art. The other, a famous director who knows a thing...

10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Bad Boys””Blow””Candyman””Raging Bull””Scream 2″”Senna””Sin City””The Squid and the Whale””Trainspotting””Troy” 7 NEW TO BLU-RAY/DVD “Child’s Play” Who really asked for a “Child’s Play” remake? Especially when the original series is actually still going...

Twenty years have passed since Eddie Murphy last used the kind of R-rated profanity he frequently employs in “Dolemite Is My Name,” and it’s a homecoming of sorts. After decades of comedic PG and PG-13 rated...

Any couple who’s visited a doctor anxious for good news about a child yet to be born recognizes a scene like this one, but with a twist. Yes, the doctor assures them, he can remove any...

Jim Mickle is the kind of director I wish was a household name. I wish there were legions of copycats trying to make his uber-specific kind noir and horror, with films set in sleepy towns off the beaten path,...

I’m no art collector and have cursory knowledge on the subject, but if I could have any work of art on my wall, I would probably choose a Lipton. Who or what is a Lipton, you...

Stanley Nelson didn’t leave for college without taking his father’s copy of Miles Davis’ game-changing 1959 album, Kind of Blue, along with him. The three-time Emmy-winning documentarian and cinematic chronicler of the African-American experience may have...

Julius Onah’s “Luce” focuses on a teenager (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) at an uppity Northern Virginia high school whose trillion-dollar Barack-Obama-smile provides the sugarcoating ornamenting his stellar grades and numerous athletic trophies, until he earns the skepticism...

Robert De Niro excels at playing closed-off, unreachable characters—hard men who might seem a bit dull if you met them for the first time, but have inner lives that they rarely let anyone see, and are mysteries...