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‘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”...

‘Lonely Planet’ Review: Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth Rock the Kasbah in Netflix’s Age Gap Romance

In a year where we’re seeing younger men woo older women in steamy romances like “The Idea of You” and “Babygirl,” it feels genuinely refreshing that writer-director Susannah Grant’s “Lonely Planet”...

‘The Silent Hour’ Review: Joel Kinnaman Gets Trapped in an Apartment Building — and in a Ho-Hum Thriller

After seeing Joel Kinnaman make do without the use of his voice in last year’s “Silent Night,” he returns to films with the word “silent” in them in “The Silent Hour,”...

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