Bleak, unrelenting and essential, The Painted Bird, a house of horrors disguised as a movie, is a picture of such blunt raw force that, the story goes, it drove viewers for the exits at film festivals late last year (though Václav Marhoul, the film’s…
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The “time-loop” comedy Palm Springs, lauded since its Sundance debut earlier this year, is a broad, anything goes gimmick with two likable actors in a movie that prizes contrived cleverness over all else, including honest laughs and its likable leads, who deserve a better…
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