Jessica Kiang

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‘Driver’s Ed’ Review: Bobby Farrelly’s Tame Throwback Exhumes, But Can’t Revive, the ’90s Teen Comedy

Both an obvious product of ’90s nostalgia and the definitive cure for it, Bobby Farrelly‘s terminally innocuous “Driver’s Ed” can be described as a youth comedy, but whose youth? Though technically...

‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Review: A Starry Cast Excels in Jim Jarmusch’s Charming Triplicate Portrait of Familial (Mis)Understanding

The song “Spooky,” that catchy little anthem about being befuddled by love, plays twice in Jim Jarmusch‘s lovely triptych melancomedy “Father Mother Sister Brother.” Its laid-back, liquid rhythms are a perfect...

‘Memory’ Review: A Haunting Memorial Collage Crafted from a Child’s Experience of War

The writer, director, editor and narrator of “Memory,” Vladlena Sandu, grew up in ’90s Chechnya. War was on her doorstep, and often not only there, but inside her childhood home, with...

‘Sorella di Clausura’ Review: A Funny, Bawdy Sociosexual Satire That’s as Tasteful as the Times We Live In

Sex, sexism, aging, celebrity, social class, suicide, churchgoing, anti-Roma bigotry, the emergence of a new geopolitical world order and the now rather tarnished lustre of EU membership: Is nothing sacred in...

‘The Pickup’ Review: Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson Don’t Give a Truck in a Fitful Action Comedy

​​A wheel almost literally comes off the armored truck where much of the action and most of the comedy takes place in Tim Story‘s action-comedy “The Pickup” (a rather confusing name...

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