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‘Drunken Noodles’ Review: A Breezy, Summery Ode to Casual Sex and Embroidered Erotica

Alone and happily adrift for the summer in Brooklyn, a young gay grad student hits the apps for an evening hookup, and within minutes, is met in a neighborhood park by...

‘The Love That Remains’ Review: Hlynur Pálmason’s Exquisitely Tender, Increasingly Haywire Portrait of a Family in Limbo

“Separated” is a fraught, transitional term in human relationships, prone to conflicting definitions by partners who have long been inclined towards conflict: a prelude to a permanent end for one, a...

‘A Pale View of Hills’ Review: The Supple Ambiguities of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novel Stiffen and Seize Up in an Unsatisfying Adaptation

Kazuo Ishiguro’s 1982 debut novel “A Pale View of Hills” is an elegant, slippery examination of lives caught between identities both national and existential: Its tale-within-a-tale of two Japanese women living...

‘Splitsville’ Review: Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona Play the Field in an Exhausting Knockabout Romcom

Divorce should be easy for Carey (Kyle Marvin), his friends assure him when his wife Ashley (Adria Arjona) gives him the heave-ho after just one year of marriage: It’s only complicated...

‘The Wave’ Review: Sebastián Lelio’s Feminist Protest Musical is Vibrantly Staged but Dramatically Flat

Perhaps coincidentally, the title “The Wave” recalls Todd Strasser’s 1980s YA novel of that name, which became a staple of Gen-X and early-millennial English syllabi, on the strength of some easily...

‘Marcella’ Review: A Straightforward Comfort-Food Valentine to an Italian Culinary Queen

If you can read, you can cook, and anyone who doubts that old maxim has Marcella Hazan as a compelling example to explain away. The woman regarded around the world (but...

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