#‘The Rivals of Amziah King’ Review: Matthew McConaughey Charms as a Beekeeper in Ambitious but Scattershot Crime Thriller

#‘The Rivals of Amziah King’ Review: Matthew McConaughey Charms as a Beekeeper in Ambitious but Scattershot Crime Thriller

In The Rivals of Amziah King, Andrew Patterson crafts a loving portrait of an Oklahoma community around the sweet relationship between a beekeeper and his estranged foster daughter. The director borrows from different genres — nostalgic Westerns, propulsive crime thrillers, high-stakes heist films and even musicals — to tell this winding tale about what makes…

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#‘The Dutchman’ Review: André Holland and Kate Mara Star in an Uneven Update of the Provocative Play

#‘The Dutchman’ Review: André Holland and Kate Mara Star in an Uneven Update of the Provocative Play

In The Dutchman, Andre Gaines retrofits Amiri Baraka’s caustic play about a fatal encounter between a reserved Black man and a roguish white woman for the modern age. He intensifies the dramatic work’s surrealist undertones and takes the central couple’s story above ground. No longer confined to the claustrophobic interior of a train car, Clay…

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#‘Another Simple Favor’ Review: Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively Return for Paul Feig’s Silly and Sometimes Trying Sequel

#‘Another Simple Favor’ Review: Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively Return for Paul Feig’s Silly and Sometimes Trying Sequel

Before the SXSW premiere of Another Simple Favor, Paul Feig admitted that he was reluctant to make a follow-up to his campy 2018 mystery A Simple Favor. Sequels, in his and many other people’s estimation, rarely live up to the standards of their predecessors. Unfortunately, Another Simple Favor doesn’t prove to be the exception to…

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