Peter Debruge

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‘Magic Farm’ Review: Acerbic Comedy About Culture Clash Follows Clueless Americans in Small-town Argentina

Cumbia music is the one grounding constant in Argentine-born Spanish filmmaker Amalia Ulman’s sophomore effort “Magic Farm,” a formally radical, biting satire about odious, privileged Americans adrift in a remote Argentine...

‘Seeds’ Review: Nine Years in the Making, a Film as Patient and Persevering as the Black Farmers It Documents

A languid, loving portrait of Black farmers in the South, “Seeds” is a mixture of celebration and lament. Family farming has been endangered, but for African American farmers, the land —...

‘Khartoum’ Review: A Collective of Filmmakers Captures an Embattled City With Ingenuity and Hopeful Spirit 

In “Khartoum,” five protagonists and four filmmakers tell the story of a city brimming with such life that even a long and vicious war could not dim it. The filmmakers started...

‘Valiant One’ Review: No-Nonsense Action-Thriller About U.S. Soldiers Trapped in North Korea Gets the Job Done

An unpretentious B-movie made with A-grade effort, “Valiant One” packs decent action and mostly sturdy drama into the tale of U.S. soldiers whose mission near the DMZ goes haywire and leaves...

‘Obex’ Review: Lo-Fi Fantasy in Love With Outdated Technology Offers an Earnest Warning

Hand-labeled VHS tapes line the shelves of the living room where Conor Marsh (Albert Birney), a 36-year-old man living alone with his dog Sandy in 1987 Baltimore, spends many hours watching...

‘You’re Cordially Invited’ Review: Comedy Pros Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell Vow to Ruin One Another’s Weddings

It’s a sign of the times that a good, old-fashioned date movie featuring two of the most bankable movie stars of the early aughts, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell, is bypassing...

‘Last Days’ Review: Most Faith-Based Movies Intend to Inspire, but Justin Lin’s Indie Return Cautions Fanatics

SPOILER ALERT: The following review contains spoilers. You’ve seen it so often, you might roll your eyes, but in “Last Days,” it really happens: American missionary John Allen Chau could have...

Peter Debruge

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