Review: ‘Barbershop: The Next Cut’: Let the Debates Resume
This movie revives the “Barbershop” franchise, bringing back Ice Cube as the owner of a haircutting establishment on Chicago’s South Side.
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CreditWalt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Review: Recycled ‘Jungle Book’ Puts a Real Boy in a Forest of Pixels
This Disney redo, by Jon Favreau, is a live-action movie that’s heavy on C.G.I. and a sunny vibe borrowed from the 1967 original.
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CreditThe Weinstein Company Review: ‘Sing Street’ Is an ’80s Love Affair, Hair Gel Required
The film, directed by John Carney, who also directed ‘Once,’ is a tribute to the decade of hair gel and rock ’n’ roll.
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CreditA24 Anatomy of a Scene
Jeremy Saulnier Narrates a Scene From ‘Green Room’
The director discusses his film about a punk band who must battle with neo-Nazis.
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CreditEliza Morse Tribeca Interview: Jason Sudeikis and Jessica Biel
“The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” which involved both as actors and Ms. Biel as a producer, took 10 years to make.
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CreditLeft and right, Ian Langsdon/European Pressphoto Agency; center, Guillaume Horcajuelo/European Pressphoto Agency Cannes Film Festival Announces Lineup
Movies by Pedro Almodóvar, Xavier Dolan and Sean Penn are among the films that will be shown at the 69th edition of the festival in May.
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CreditA24 Review: In ‘Green Room,’ a Scruffy Comic Flavor Turns Tense
A punk band booked at a roadhouse whose patrons are skinheads unleashes a cover of the Dead Kennedys’ anthem insulting “Nazi punks.” Trouble ensues.
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CreditUnionDocs ‘Los Sures’ Resurrects South Williamsburg in 1984
Diego Echeverria’s decades-old documentary opened a modest window on the neighborhood by focusing on five people who lived there.
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CreditMagnolia Pictures Review: ‘The First Monday in May’ Goes Behind the Scenes at the Met
This documentary looks at the creation of the 2015 exhibition “China: Through The Looking Glass” and the benefit that coincides with its opening.
