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Nov 12, 2018
African-American musician and his Italian-American driver tour 1960's South in true story of race, class and redemption
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Nov 08, 2018
New animated take on the Dr. Seuss classic — featuring Benedict Cumberbatch — won't make you green with envy
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Nov 08, 2018
J.J. Abrams-produced mash-up of men-on-a-mission adventures and monster movies feels like several throwbacks in one
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Nov 08, 2018
Historical epic about Scottish independence brings on the blood, mud and broadswords — and a strong performance from its leading man
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Nov 07, 2018
'The Crown' actress steps into the role of 'Dragon Tattoo' avenging angel Lisbeth Salander and completely makes it her own
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Nov 06, 2018
The filmmakers drop their patented irony into this Western anthology movie about gunfighters, gold diggers and frontier fatalism
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Nov 05, 2018
Jason Reitman's drama revisits the moment when presidential hopeful Gary Hart's adultery became a national affair
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Nov 02, 2018
Recounting of the life and times of famed war correspondent Marie Colvin is still a biopic, albeit an unusually urgent one
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Nov 02, 2018
Margarethe von Trotta remembers the first time she saw it. It was the early Sixties, and […]
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Nov 01, 2018
This wretched attempt to turn the famous fairy tale/ballet into a blockbuster gives a bad name to family entertainment
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Nov 01, 2018
An intimate, unabashedly reverential new documentary lets larger-than-life opera star Maria Callas tell her story in her own voice
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Nov 01, 2018
Comedy about white academic immersed in battle-rap culture is a major rush — and a huge missed opportunity
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Oct 31, 2018
Orson Welles' legendary unfinished film is finally complete — and proves he's still ahead of his time
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Oct 30, 2018
Lucas Hedges shines alongside Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe in this harrowing real-life tale of a gay teen whose parents send him to conversion therapy
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Oct 30, 2018
Biopic on flamboyant, unforgettable Queen frontman has its share of flaws — but the star's take on Freddie Mercury saves the day
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Oct 26, 2018
Susan Sarandon's story of a mom searching for her war-journalist son is a superior arthouse model of a Lifetime movie
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Oct 25, 2018
Martin Amis's Nineties nihilism-chic novel comes to the screen, and it is worse than you can imagine
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Oct 25, 2018
Legendary documentarian turns his camera on pro-gun, pro-God Midwestern town and gives us a snapshot of 2018 Americana
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Oct 24, 2018
South Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-dong delivers a knockout with story of two men, a woman and a missing-person mystery
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Oct 24, 2018
Luca Guadagnino's remake of the Italian-horror landmark gives us a totemic Tilda Swinton — and too much subtext
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Oct 23, 2018
Sandi Tan's sui generis documentary chronicles the making of a lost indie cult movie — and revenge on the man who took it from its creators
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Oct 18, 2018
A-list cast turn story of elderly mother suffering from Alzheimer's into a touching, poignant story of the ties that bind
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Oct 18, 2018
Danish nerve-jangler pits a cop working a 911-dispatch beat in a race against time — while never leaving the room
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Oct 17, 2018
Carrie Mulligan gives a career-best performance in actor-turned-director Paul Dano's scathing, sharp familial melodrama
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Oct 17, 2018
The comedian gets sharp-tongued and serious as Lee Israel, a biographer who became a first-rate literary-correspondence faker
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Oct 16, 2018
Actor's directorial debut rewinds back to Clinton-era L.A., where a young kid gets an education in sex, drugs and skaterat culture
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Oct 16, 2018
Jamie Lee Curtis and director David Gordon Green gives us the one true sequel to the gamechanging 1978 original
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Oct 12, 2018
Here's how it's worked, the traditional go-to method for diving down the barrel of the smoking […]
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Oct 12, 2018
Remake of Israeli film hands the actor the plum role of a woman who discovers a child prodigy — and becomes obsessed with his talent
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Oct 11, 2018
Director-actor Rupert Everett tackles Oscar Wilde in his later years, and proves this was the role he was born to play
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Oct 11, 2018
Writer-director-actor Jim Cummings' tale of a policeman on the verge of a nervous breakdown introduces a major talent — and is the indie film you need to see this year
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Oct 11, 2018
An A-list cast spices up story of mysterious travelers, old-school Vegas hotel and some serious WTF turns
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Oct 11, 2018
Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet star as father and son in this powerful drug-addiction drama based on true stories
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Oct 10, 2018
Director's latest docudrama re-enacts the 2011 massacre in Norway with chilling accuracy — but it stumbles when revisiting the details of the aftermath
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Oct 10, 2018
Writer-director-star Ike Barinholtz's dark comedy about citizen loyalty oaths and toxic partisan discourse starts as a satire and turns into a sinkhole
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Oct 10, 2018
'La La Land' duo Damien Chazelle and Ryan Gosling don't give us a flag-waving hero but a human being — and that makes all the difference
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Oct 05, 2018
Paul Giamatti, Kathryn Hahn and writer-director Tamara Jenkins turn this dramedy about a middle-aged couple trying to conceive into a bittersweet symphony
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Oct 04, 2018
A police shooting forces a teen to reckon with racism in this exceptional adaptation of Angie Thomas' young-adult bestseller
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Oct 03, 2018
Not even Tom Hardy can save this attempt to combine a dark super-antihero story and 'Deadpool'-style shenanigans
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Oct 01, 2018
Actor-director Bradley Cooper and his pop-star costar turn a millennial take on this Hollywood warhorse into a modern classic
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Sep 27, 2018
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin chronicle climber's dramatic rope-free summit of 3,000-foot El Capitan with heart-stopping detail
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Sep 27, 2018
John David Washington is on a career roll this year
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Sep 27, 2018
'Green Room' filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier's art-horror adaptation of Arctic Noir novel is bloody, brutal, bleak and Freudian as hell
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Sep 26, 2018
How do you pair the two top-notch screen comedians and make something so painfully, pitifully unfunny?
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Sep 26, 2018
In what may be the 82-year-old icon's swan song, the star goes out swinging as a gentleman bank robber in one helluva movie
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Sep 21, 2018
Female-revenge movie mistakes snark for satire and sex-and-violence for serious state-of-the-nation commentary — and ends up soaking in its own toxicity
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Sep 21, 2018
Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins and Joan Plowright let it rip in Roger Michell's documentary 'Tea With the Dames'
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Sep 20, 2018
Black, Cate Blanchett and director Eli Roth turn a YA horror classic into a spooky good time
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Sep 20, 2018
A radiant, riveting Keira Knightley meets every challenge the title role of French novelist Colette throws at her — and there's a nonstop onslaught of them
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Sep 20, 2018
A radiant, riveting Keira Knightley meets every challenge the title role of French novelist Colette throws at her — and there's a nonstop onslaught of them.
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Sep 19, 2018
Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly are frontier hit-men who meet their match int his beautifully odd horse opera
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Sep 19, 2018
Dan Fogelman's multi-stacked melodrama goes up in a blaze of crass tear-jerking, unrelenting tragedy porn and unearned self-congratulation
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Sep 19, 2018
Portrait of the First Lady of 'SNL' gives you a treasure trove of best-of moments, personal artifacts — and little else
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Sep 18, 2018
The documentarian comes out swinging at the Trump administration — and reminds us that we need to take the dire situation our country is in very seriously
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Sep 14, 2018
Don't let the unruly plot ruin the fun: Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick make for a crackling onscreen duo
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Sep 13, 2018
Shane Black's reboot brings much needed blood and banter to the sci-fi/action series — but it's still a franchise-first entry
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Sep 12, 2018
Playing a family court judge, the two-time Oscar winner turns in another stirring performance in this otherwise wooden adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel
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Sep 12, 2018
Tale of Rick Wershe Jr., who went from underage drug kingpin to FBI plant to prisoner, tells his story with little big-pic takeaways
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Sep 12, 2018
Peter Dinklage and Elle Fanning bravely face the end of the world, but they can't overcome a barrage of clichés
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Sep 06, 2018
Jennifer Garner has a very particular set of skills. But this copycat action flick doesn't let her use them.
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Sep 05, 2018
Actor stars in acid-tinged thriller/horror movie about Manson-ite cults, demons and chainsaws — and matches its lunacy head-on
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Sep 05, 2018
Latest entry of the horror franchise aims for some ol' time religious scares and comes up empty
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Sep 04, 2018
Actor-director Ethan Hawke turns the story of hard-livin' troubadour Blaze Foley into a tribute to artistic integrity — and the best music biopic of the year
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Aug 31, 2018
'Room' director Lenny Abrahamson crafts an elegiac mystery that's much more than a typical ghost story
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Aug 30, 2018
Reeves and Ryder play two broken, jaded people looking for love in writer-director Victor Levin's agonizing twist on a romcom
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Aug 29, 2018
Story of how Mossad agents tracked down one of the most notorious war criminals ever gives Isaac and Sir Ben Kingsley meaty roles — and little else
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Aug 24, 2018
There's little joy to be found in this senselessly crass and seriously unfunny first-time effort from the Jim Henson Company's adult-themed division
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Aug 24, 2018
How filmmaker Andrew Bujalski and a peerless female cast turn story of sisterhood in Hooters-like workplace into one of the best films of 2018
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Aug 23, 2018
Even the genius of Sam Rockwell can't save this hackneyed crime caper centered on a stolen gemstone
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Aug 22, 2018
Updated take on the 1973 classic offers solid performances and plenty of action, but fails to inspire like the original
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Aug 22, 2018
Director Aneesh Chaganty's feature debut takes a deep dive into the dark web — and keeps moviegoers on the edge of their seats
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Aug 17, 2018
Chris O'Dowd, Rose Byrne and Ethan Hawke star in story of a professor who idolizes a singer-songwriter — and his girlfriend who once dated him
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Aug 16, 2018
Story of black-ops unit escorting whistleblower through dangerous streets should be first-class action flick — instead it's an incoherent, chaotic rant
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Aug 15, 2018
Filmmaker Bing Liu chronicles his (and his best friends') life on a skateboard — and beautifully charts how we look at modern masculinity
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Aug 15, 2018
Story of young man and his furry Canis lupis friend separated from their respective packs is just the coming-of-Ice-Age movie we didn't know we needed
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Aug 14, 2018
Adaptation of Meg Wolitzer's novel of long-suffering spouse who hits her breaking point is blessed with a tour-de-force performance
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Aug 13, 2018
Breezy story of a Chinese-American meeting her boyfriend's extravagantly wealthy family is perfect way to end the summer moviegoing season
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Aug 09, 2018
Story of British ex-pat literally fighting for survival in Bangkok cellblocks is brutal, beautiful
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Aug 09, 2018
How do you make a blockbuster movie starring a superhuman action star and a giant prehistoric monster that's so deadly dull? Let us count the ways
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Aug 06, 2018
The filmmaker turns true story of an African-American cop who infiltrated the white supremacy group in 1970s into an incendiary indictment of our current moment
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Aug 03, 2018
The now-grown boy of A.A. Milne's 'Winnie the Pooh' stories reunites with his childhood friends in this alternately wonderful and disturbing Disney movie
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Aug 02, 2018
Instead of the Velvet Underground era, we get the iconic chanteuse's autumn years — and that makes all the difference
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Jul 31, 2018
Sundance jury-prize winner about youth sent to "pray the gay away" camps is heartfelt, tender and too close to an 'Afterschool Special' for comfort
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Jul 30, 2018
'SNL' veteran and costar Mila Kunis are left stranded in this flat espionage farce that should have stayed undercover
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Jul 27, 2018
Portrait of Scotty Bowers, a legendary "pimp to the stars" and fixture of Hollywood's gay underground, is less a doc than endless marquee-name dish
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Jul 24, 2018
'Call Me By Your Name' star's earlier coming-of-age work does the young actor no favors
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Jul 20, 2018
Sequel to the 2014 adaptation of TV show finds our man correcting even more imbalances - and this time it's personal
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Jul 19, 2018
Doc on the late designer Alexander McQueen is ravishing, haunting and a must-see
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Jul 19, 2018
Not even the mighty Cher can keep this jukebox-musical from from feeling like an S.O.S.
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Jul 18, 2018
'Hamilton' star Daveed Diggs and poet Rafael Casal give their hometown a valentine in story of ex-con, his best friend and a rapidly changing city
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Jul 16, 2018
Latest in spy-vs.-spy franchise finds its star once again saving the world - and the summer movie season
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Jul 13, 2018
Rob Reiner's chronicle of two reporters fighting an administration's war on reality should be the Fourth Estate movie we need - so why isn't it?
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Jul 12, 2018
Joaquin Phoenix and director Gus Van Sant turn a biopic of quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan into something tender, unique
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Jul 11, 2018
Bo Burnham's story about a 14-year-old misfit is one of the funniest, saddest and most heartfelt teen movies ever
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Jul 11, 2018
Dwayne Johnson gets serious in disaster film-meets-'Die Hard' blockbuster - and slightly misses the mark
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Jul 05, 2018
Kevin Macdonald's doc on Whitney Houston drops a shocking revelation - but his look at how she fell apart is anything but sensationalistic
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Jul 03, 2018
Boots Riley's brilliant, take-no-prisoners comedy skewers social norms, racial strife and the media - then things get really weird
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Jul 03, 2018
Horror franchise takes viewers back to Purge-day ground zero - and takes its B-movie premise into incendiary territory
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Jun 29, 2018
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for June 20, 2018 is:
balmy ? \BAH-mee\ ? adjective
1 a : having the qualities of balm : soothing
b : mild, temperate
2 : crazy, foolish
Examples:
"Men often don't moisturize their skin during the hotter months, but should. It's a misconception that oily skin doesn't get dehydrated. Use a lightweight moisturizer that isn't heavy or sticky in balmy weather." — Joane Amay, Ebony, June 2018
"He arose with the first peep of day, and sallied forth to enjoy the balmy breeze of morning...." — Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall, 1816
Did you know?
It's no secret that balmy is derived from balm, an aromatic ointment or fragrance that heals or soothes. So when did it come to mean "foolish," you might wonder? Balmy goes back to the 15th century and was often used in contexts referring to weather, such as "a balmy breeze" or, as Mark Twain wrote in Tom Sawyer, "The balmy summer air, the restful quiet...." Around the middle of the 19th century, it developed a new sense suggesting a weak or unbalanced mind. It is uncertain if the soft quality or the soothing effect of balm influenced this use. But later in the century, balmy be
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Jun 29, 2018
Jessica Chastain tries her best to save this factually inaccurate portrait of a frontier activist/Sitting Bull cohort Caroline Weldon
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