Entertainment: Whats the Buzz from The Hollywood Reporter

‘The Final Master’: Film Review

The screenwriter of Wong Kar-Wai’s ‘The Grandmaster’ offers another tale of kung fu teachers and pupils.

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‘The Conjuring 2’: Film Review

Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as real-life demonologists — this time tackling a haunting in working-class England — in James Wan’s sequel to his 2013 horror hit.

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‘Art Bastard’: Film Review

Victor Kanefsky’s documentary presents an intimate portrait of the iconoclastic artist Robert Cenedella.

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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows’: Film Review

The hard-shelled superheroes are back in this sequel to their 2014 franchise reboot, also featuring Megan Fox, Will Arnett and Laura Linney.

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‘The Decent’: Film Review

A meek maid’s search for emancipation in a Buenos Aires nudist collective goes awry in Lukas Valenta Rinner’s follow-up to his award-winning debut ‘Parabellum.’

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‘Zimbelism’: Hot Docs Review

Jean-Francois Gratton’s and Matt Zimbel’s documentary recounts the life and career of the renowned street photographer.

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‘The Peacemaker’: Hot Docs Review

James Demo’s documentary profiles a celebrated peace negotiator who has had less success taming his inner demons.

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‘The Weather Inside’: Film Review

A public relations expert working for an international aid organization succumbs to the lures of drugs and sex in Isabelle Stever’s German drama.

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‘Alba’: Film Review

Ecuadorian Ana Cristina Barragan’s award-winning feature debut tracks the pre-teen travails of its terminally shy heroine.

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‘The Jews’ (‘Ils Sont Partout’): Film Review

Actor-director Yvan Attal (‘Rapt’) stages a series of vignettes about Jews in France.

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‘Sideways’: Theater Review

Rex Pickett combines elements of his original novel with Alexander Payne’s Oscar-winning buddy comedy for this new stage version of the boozy California bromance.

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‘Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping’: Film Review

Andy Samberg plays a singer/rapper whose burgeoning solo career gets derailed in this mockumentary written and directed by the members of The Lonely Island.

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‘Now You See Me 2’: Film Review

Daniel Radcliffe and Lizzy Caplan join the magic-caper franchise’s ensemble cast in this sequel.

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‘Maya & Marty’: TV Review

Maya Rudolph, Martin Short and Lorne Michaels join forces for a bland, product placement-filled, primetime take on ‘SNL’ for summer.

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‘Off the Rails’: Film Review

Meet the man who has spent his adult life volunteering for the MTA — and done years of jail time for his service.

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‘As I AM: The Life and Time$ of DJ AM’: Film Review

Kevin Kerslake’s intimate documentary recounts the trailblazing career and tragic untimely death of the superstar DJ.

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‘Zimbelism’: Film Review

Jean-Francois Gratton’s and Matt Zimbel’s documentary recounts the life and career of the renowned street photographer.

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‘Threepenny Opera’: Theater Review

Rory Kinnear stars in this new adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s lusty lowlife musical at the National Theatre, the first London revival in over 20 years.

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‘The Dresser’: TV Review

A terrific and touching little gem about acting, aging, love and devotion.

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‘Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach’: Film Review

The campaigning British director marks his 80th birthday with this career-spanning documentary, with contributions from screen comrades including Cillian Murphy.

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‘Pearl Harbor’: THR’s 2001 Review

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‘Chef’s Table’ Season 2: TV Review

This beautifully shot survey of international chefs is one of Netflix’s best shows.

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‘The Do-Over’: TV Review

Netflix releases its latest Adam Sandler comedy. A nation mourns.

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‘A Light Beneath Their Feet’: Film Review

Taryn Manning plays a single mother suffering from bipolar disorder in Valerie Weiss’ directorial debut.

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‘3Penny Opera’: Theater Review

Rory Kinnear stars in this new adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s lusty lowlife musical at the National Theatre, the first London revival in over 20 years.

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‘Bloodline’ Season 2: TV Review

Season one was an endurance test but at least it had a reason for being. This one doesn’t, unless predictable fallout is your thing.

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‘Roots’: TV Review

An exciting young cast elevates this emotional, powerful remake of the 1977 landmark miniseries.

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‘Romeo and Juliet’: Theater Review

Richard Madden and Lily James are reunited on stage by their ‘Cinderella’ director Kenneth Branagh for this London production.

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‘Paramour’: Theater Review

Cirque du Soleil’s first-ever show created especially for Broadway has been grossing north of $1 million a week in previews.

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‘The Total Bent’: Theater Review

Stew and Heidi Rodewald, creators of the Tony Award-winning ‘Passing Strange,’ collaborate on their latest musical project at the Public Theater.

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‘The Happy Film’: Film Review

Grammy Award-winning graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister chronicles his efforts at finding happiness in his debut documentary.

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‘Showing Roots’: TV Review

Lifetime’s godawful race-relations dramedy will make you bristle.

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‘Incognito’: Theater Review

Charlie Cox of Netflix’s ‘Daredevil’ and Geneva Carr, a Tony nominee last year for ‘Hand to God,’ appear in this new brain-teasing play by Nick Payne, author of ‘Constellations.’

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‘Warcraft’: Film Review

Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton and state-of-the-art digital animation topline a long-in-development game-based movie.

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‘Wayward Pines’ Season 2: TV Review

Fox’s surprise summer hit returns with more Jason Patric, more monsters, but less mystery.

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‘A Yellow Bird’: Cannes Review

This feature debut from Singaporean director K. Rajagopal stars Sivakumar Palakrishnan as an Indian Singaporean trying to get his life back on track after he’s been released from prison.

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‘The Family Whistle’ (‘Il fischio di famiglia’): Cannes Review

An Italian documentary traces the origins of the Coppola clan.

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‘The City of Conversation’: Theater Review

Christine Lahti and Jason Ritter star in Anthony Giardina’s political family drama, which offers a compelling glimpse at the roots of hyper-partisanship in Washington.

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‘Me Before You’: Film Review

Cinderella story meets end-of-life dialectic in a romance starring Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin and based on Jojo Moyes’ popular novel.

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‘Hadestown’: Theater Review

‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812’ director Rachel Chavkin delivers a similarly immersive staging of Anais Mitchell’s acclaimed concept album based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

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‘The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis’ (‘La Larga Noche de Francisco Sanctis’): Cannes Review

Argentinean rookie directors Andrea Testa and Francisco Marquez premiered their paranoid period thriller in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.

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‘Blood Father’: Cannes Review

Mel Gibson headlines the latest feature from French director Jean-Francois Richet (‘Assault on Precinct 13’), an action thriller costarring Erin Moriarty, Diego Luna and William H. Macy.

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‘Peshmerga’: Cannes Review

French intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy follows Kurdish troops fighting ISIS on the ground.

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‘Elle’: Cannes Review

Paul Verhoeven directs Isabelle Huppert in his first French-language feature, which premiered in competition in Cannes.

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‘Manhattan Night’: Film Review

Adrien Brody plays a newspaperman drawn into an increasingly unlikely mystery.

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‘The Salesman’ (‘Forushande’): Cannes Review

An actor goes to cruel extremes in Asghar Farhadi’s drama of hurt pride and revenge.

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