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‘Michael’
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‘Over Your Dead Body’
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9 New Movies Our Critics Are Talking About This Week
Whether you’re a casual moviegoer or an avid buff, our reviewers think these films are worth knowing about.
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Jaafar Jackson, center, stars in “Michael.”
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‘Michael’
Made with the cooperation of Michael Jackson’s estate, this biopic, directed by Antoine Fuqua, focuses on the singer’s life until 1988, emphasizing certain parts of his life and ignoring others.
From our review:
What we are left with is a string of musical set pieces, like a greatest hits album, performed ably by the stars — in his debut role, Jaafar Jackson dances like he is possessed by his uncle’s talent — but strung together in repetitive false-note ways that are insulting both to audience and subject.
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Remarkable subject, standard biopic.
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Robert Aramayo as John Davidson in “I Swear.”
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‘I Swear’
This biopic directed by Kirk Jones depicts the life of John Davidson, an activist who lives with Tourette’s syndrome.
From our review:
It’s no surprise that Jones, in compressing decades of a life into two screen hours, has taken liberties. The problem is that he hasn’t just glossed over some of the more agonizing moments that Davidson deals with head-on (including how his condition affects his intimate life); Jones has turned a life into a hackneyed survivor’s story with cartoon villains, cardboard saints, pretty scenery, mewling piano notes and expedient, drama-goosing epiphanies.
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A road trip goes off-course.
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Molly Belle Wright in “Omaha.”
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‘Omaha’
A single father takes his two children on a road trip with a baffling destination.
From our review:
Directed by Cole Webley from a screenplay by Robert Machoian, it is mostly a road movie in a classic American mode: one father, two kids and a dog in a car, driving against the backdrop of a big sky. But whereas many of these movies are heartwarming, or at least bittersweet, this one is relentlessly gutting. And it’s not clear, by the end, why this story ends where it does, or what it’s intended to mean.
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