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Mahershala Ali stars as a devout father of three, making ends meet as a hitman (opens the original)
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Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother opens with a murder in a public restroom in Houston. The victim, a man, is never identified. The killer is a professional assassin named Latif, played by Mahershala Ali. As their bloody struggle plays out, we hear a solemn voiceover explanation of the film's title. It's rooted in a hadith, a record of the sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad. A man approaches the Prophet and asks, "Who deserves the best of me?" The question is posed three times, and eac
There's 'Hope' for this divisive alien invasion film that mixes art and schlock (opens the original)
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The South Korean filmmaker Na Hong-jin has directed four feature films over the past 18 years. They're terrific, if not for the faint of heart. I still remember watching Na's 2008 debut, The Chaser, and thinking I'd rarely seen a more brutally relentless thriller — or a darker statement about the elusiveness of law and order. His next one, The Yellow Sea, was even better, a gripping mob movie that was also a wrenching portrait of a Korean Chinese immigrant on the run — a man without a country. N
'Practical Magic 2' can't break the curse of the Hollywood sequel (opens the original)
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I didn't see Practical Magic when it opened in theaters back in 1998. In truth, not many people did go to see this adaptation of Alice Hoffman's bestselling novel, about two New England sisters whose supernatural powers wreak havoc on their love lives. But over the nearly three decades since, the film, directed by Griffin Dunne, has found an intensely loyal audience via cable and streaming — and on airplanes, to judge by the number of times I've seen it pop up on in-flight video screens. Catchin
See inequity through the eyes of a 'tee girl' at a fancy resort in 'Filipiñana' (opens the original)
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The few weeks or so that stretch between late August and early September are generally thought of as the doldrums of the movie release calendar. The summer blockbusters have come and mostly gone, and the fall Oscar contenders have yet to drop. Yet there are always new films worth seeking out, usually flying just under the radar. You might not have heard of the terrific new movie Filipiñana, which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. It's in theaters now, and it marks the ar
'Dreams in Nightmares' is a road-trip movie about living on your own terms (opens the original)
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A few years ago, I saw a quietly shattering debut feature called Test Pattern, from the writer and director Shatara Michelle Ford. Set mostly in the hours following a sexual assault, the movie was full of sharp, damning insights into how America's healthcare and law-enforcement systems routinely fail Black women. In their second feature, Dreams in Nightmares, Ford has lightened the mood and loosened the tension. This is a warm, sprawling, sweetly bickersome comedy-drama about a group of close fr
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