'Passengers' Review: Pratt, Lawrence Sci-Fi Romance Isn't Worth the Trip
Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt can do anything … or so you’d think. But Passengers – a chemistry-free, agonizingly slow sci-fi misfire –
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Movie Reviews
'Patriots Day' Review: Mark Wahlberg Drama on Boston Bombing Is Fitting Tribute
The facts are all-too-clearly etched in our minds: On Patriots’ Day, April 15, 2013, near the finish line of the Boston marathon, two
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'A Monster Calls' Review: Boy Meets Magical, Healing Tree in Extraordinary Fantasy
After winning hearts as Jyn Erso in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Felicity Jones is now breaking them in A Monster Calls.
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'Julieta' Review: Almodóvar Tones Down for Mellow Mother-Daughter Melodrama
Pedro Almodóvar is the wild man of world cinema, a great, flamboyant talent whose films shimmer with his own vivid and hotly sexual
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'Live by Night' Review: Ben Affleck's Old-School Gangster Film Chokes on Ambition
Ben Affleck’s tribute to old-school Warner brothers gangster pictures may lack the white heat of the Cagney-Bogart era, but Live By Night still
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'Toni Erdmann' Review: Welcome to the Father-Daughter Comedy of the Year
If you’re looking for the best and most beguiling foreign-language film of the year, you’ll find it in Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann, a
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'Hidden Figures' Review: Three Women Make History in Inspirational Space-Race Drama
Did you know that three female African-American mathematicians, working at NASA in 1962, were instrumental in getting the Mercury program into orbit and
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'20th Century Women' Review: Annette Bening Shines in Brilliant Mother-Son Drama
Annette Bening is simply glorious as one of the title characters in 20th Century Women. (Note to the Academy, make sure that Best
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Lion
Movies are all about telling stories. Sometimes those stories are fictional, and sometimes those stories are ripped right from the pages of real
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'Paterson' Review: Jim Jarmusch Scores With Tribute to Poetry All Around Us
Adam Driver gives one of the loveliest and least likely to be rewarded performances of the year in Paterson. Why least likely, you
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