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‘Out of My Mind’ Review: Disney Feature Sends a Positive Message About Disability, Though the Heroine’s Shine Needs a Polish

The tween girl with cerebral palsy at the heart of “Out of My Mind” would certainly dislike being called inspiring. She makes it crystal clear she hates pity, or anything resembling...

‘The Merry Gentlemen’ Review: Britt Robertson Stuffs Her Stocking With Man Candy in Netflix’s Rote Rom-Com

To describe “The Merry Gentlemen” as “The Full Monty” meets a Christmas-themed Hallmark movie might be overselling the goods. However, that’s essentially the elevator pitch for this feature, in which a...

‘Freedom’ Review: Mélanie Laurent’s Smash-and-Grab Fictionalization Pays Homage to the Art of the Heist

Rather than taking the obvious route with an action-heavy, fictionalized portrait of French thief Bruno Sulak’s criminal misadventures of the late 1970s and early ’80s, filmmaker Mélanie Laurent shrewdly treats “Freedom”...

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