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‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ is the loveliest movie of the year (so far)

It’s never a bad time for a film like “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” but at the moment it feels like a much-needed balm. Modest in scope and made with the lightest of touch, not unlike the lovely folk songs that populate its soundtrack, it’s also deceptively powerful: A gentle ode to moving on, in quirky packaging. This is a movie about a kind, chatty man named Charles (Tim Key) who invites his favorite folk band to play a concert on the remote island where he lives alone in a massive old home. Charles is a semi-recluse only by circumstance: He’s holed himself up in this home ...

‘Snow White’ is no poisoned apple but it doesn’t whistle

Mirror mirror on the wall, what’s the fairest Disney live-action remake of them all? Wait, mirror. Hold on a second. Maybe choosing from the likes of “Alice in Wonderland” (2010), “Mulan” (2020) and “The Lion King” (2019) isn’t such a good idea. Mirror, on second thought, ...

Soderbergh’s sleek spy thriller ‘Black Bag’ crackles

If you’re hosting a dinner for half a dozen British intelligence agents with the aim of ferreting out a mole, what should you cook? For George Woodhouse (Michael Fassbender), who’s preparing for four colleagues, plus himself and his wife, Kathryn St. Jean (Cate Blanchett), who, like him, ...

‘Kinda Pregnant’ is kinda good

We have by now become accustomed to the lengths some movie characters will go to keep a good comedy lie going. But it’s still a special kind of feat when Amy Schumer, playing a baby-mad single woman who fakes a baby bump in “Kinda Pregnant,” is so desperate to maintain the fiction that ...