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Mar 17, 2019
It's a Resistance-era spin on the alien-invasion sci-fi thriller — if only the metaphor and B-movie pulp could meet somewhere in the middle
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Mar 16, 2019
Critic/documentarian Mark Cousins' open letter to the late, great filmmaker somehow makes you see the great man's work in an entirely new light
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Mar 14, 2019
Idris Elba's directorial debut adapts a hit crime novel about Jamaican gangsters in London — and fires a lot of blanks
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Mar 13, 2019
Filmmaker Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre's story of a troubled convict bonding with a wild mustang is a striking debut — and a tender exploration of male rage
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Mar 12, 2019
Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgard, Kim Nguyen's filmis so peculiar you'll think it's based on a true story — but it's not
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Mar 12, 2019
Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson are the lawmen who took down the gangster couple in this conservative corrective to the pop-crime myth
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Mar 12, 2019
Be prepared to swoon in this mess of a tearjerker — or not
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Mar 07, 2019
Chilean director Sebastián Lelio remakes his movie for Hollywood, having a woman in her fifties live her best life at L.A. dance clubs
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Mar 06, 2019
Five ex-military pals — including Ben Affleck and Oscar Isaac — reunite in J.C. Chandor's action thriller so they can rip off a drug lord
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Mar 05, 2019
First female-led Marvel movie gives us a superheroine for the ages
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Mar 01, 2019
Is Perry really saying goodbye to his beloved character who made him a fortune?
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Feb 28, 2019
Provocative French director's dance-dance-devolution epic is one brilliant bad-trip experience
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Feb 28, 2019
Using recently discovered archival footage and audio, this chronicle of one small step for man is one giant nonfiction achievement
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Feb 27, 2019
Ondi Timoner-directed movie chronicles photographer's sexual and artistic awakening in New York City, as well as friendship with rock legend Patti Smith, but doesn't do his legacy justice
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Feb 26, 2019
The French actress turn this tale of an older woman obsessed with Chloë Grace Moretz's waitress into delectable high-camp suspense
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Feb 20, 2019
Dazzling animation, light-on-its-feet humor and a ton of heart bring the 'Dragon' trilogy to a thrilling end
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Feb 13, 2019
Drug-war story set in the South American nation's indigenous community is bold, brilliant — and a regional reinvention of the gangster movie
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Feb 13, 2019
The Australian comedian lifts up this meta-take on romantic comedies, just in time for Valentine's Day
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Feb 12, 2019
This ingenious animated film — about a psychologist fighting characters from 13 famous paintings — is a heist flick, a movie-mad comedy and so much more
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Feb 12, 2019
James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez's long-in-the-making adaptation of a popular manga is all bells and whistles
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Feb 11, 2019
A standard underdog-sports movie about a WWE Divas champ gets upgraded thanks to a fireplug performance from Florence Pugh
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Feb 08, 2019
The scrappy auteur's satirical takedown on Sports Inc. and corporate strangleholds is one mic-drop of a movie — and a must-see
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Feb 08, 2019
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's mystery about a missing woman — starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem — ends up slowly going nowhere
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Feb 07, 2019
Jonas Åkerlund's look at the fast rise and bloody fall of Mayhem should be the real deal — so why does it hit all the wrong notes
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Feb 07, 2019
Taraji P. Henson comes out swinging in this female-centric update of the 2000 Mel Gibson rom-com 'What Women Want,' but the cliché-ridden film can't go the distance
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Feb 07, 2019
Liam Neeson's snowbound thriller is pure revenge-movie escapism — if you can get past the bad press
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Feb 06, 2019
The sequel to the 2014 animated hit brings back the whole brick-by-brick gang to slightly diminishing returns
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Feb 02, 2019
Cinematic hot take on Ryu Murakami's S&M/psychopath love story is one part Seventies horror, one part misguided lit-adaptation — and all gorgeous surfaces
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Feb 01, 2019
Jane the Virgin' star goes into gun-toting, ass-kicking mode with this American remake of a Mexican thriller about a reluctant drug mule
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Jan 31, 2019
With a roster including Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo and Toni Collette, director Dan Gilroy's thriller has tons of promise — until the violence breaks out
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Jan 30, 2019
Star Mads Mikkelsen's deft performance propels this stark and gripping tale of one man's fight to survive in the harshest of environments
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Jan 30, 2019
You won't believe your eyes: Peter Jackson uses a treasure trove of material to make this WWI documentary feel new, vital
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Jan 25, 2019
Forget the plot twist, Steven Knight's romantic thriller goes wrong in ways that are staggeringly dull
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Jan 24, 2019
Germany's submission for the Best Foreign-Language Oscar turns a Gerald Richter-like painter into a symbol of social change
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Jan 23, 2019
'Attack the Block' director Joe Cornish returns with a better, smarter, more '80s Spielbergian YA adventure
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Jan 18, 2019
Netflix's look at how greed, corruption and lies led to an epic music-fest fail is an expert portrait of a great American scam artist
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Jan 17, 2019
The filmmaker connects bits of his two best movies into one chin-stroking thriller about why we need superheroes — a conversation 15 years too late
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Jan 11, 2019
Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston star in aggressively mediocre redo of a hit about an ex-con taking care of a quadriplegic billionaire
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Jan 03, 2019
A group must get through puzzle-solving levels of a deadly mystery game — or die tryin' — in decent attempt to cash in on pop party fad
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Dec 27, 2018
Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly pay tribute to the bond between the legendary screen team Laurel and Hardy
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Dec 26, 2018
This Will Ferrell/John C. Reilly parody of Sherlock Holmes is so painfully unfunny we're not sure it can legally be called a comedy
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Dec 24, 2018
Felicity Jones plays the young-and-restless Ruth Bader Ginsburg in this superhero-origin-story biopic
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Dec 24, 2018
The actor turns this twisty, slightly confused piece of pulp fiction into a hell of a showcase
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Dec 20, 2018
Jennifer Lopez comedy aims to be a 'Working Girl' for millennials — and almost gets by on star power alone
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Dec 20, 2018
Director Robert Zemeckis recounts a true story of an ex-soldier who uses action figures as art therapy — and loses something in the Hollywood transition
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Dec 19, 2018
Oscar-winning filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski returns with a love story that melds the personal, the political and the profound
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Dec 18, 2018
It's no surprise that Mary Poppins Returns, an industrial-strength sugarplum, doesn't ?live up to the 1964 […]
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Dec 18, 2018
Not even Jason Momoa and a cast of overqualified supporting actors can save the character from being the joke of the DCEU
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Dec 17, 2018
Adam McKay's biopic of former Vice-President Dick Cheney takes on the controversial political figure, one dark, bleak laugh at a time
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Dec 17, 2018
Think 'E.T.' with auto parts — or a cash-in spin-off that transforms, surprisingly, into a best-of-franchise delight
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Dec 14, 2018
Peter Jackson & Co. take on Philip Reeve's popular sci-fi book — and end up with a steampunk Frankenstein's monster made from spare parts
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Dec 14, 2018
The director's portrait of an artist as a psychopath reminds you that everything is permitted — except failed acts of provocation
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Dec 13, 2018
Lebanese film is a harrowing portrait of a poverty-stricken child's fight to survive amid the city's chaos
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Dec 13, 2018
The venerable actor-director's character study gives us an elderly man who decides to start a new career — as a cartel drug-runner
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Dec 12, 2018
Sandra Bullock stars in post-apocalyptic sci-fi/horror movie about aliens that use sight as a weapon
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Dec 12, 2018
Animated take on your friendly neighborhood webslinger gives us a host of Spider-heroes — and absolutely nails why we love the character
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Dec 11, 2018
The Oscar-winning director's follow-up to 'Moonlight' gloriously brings James Baldwin's beautiful, bittersweet prose to life
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Dec 10, 2018
Alexis Bloom's documentary explores the arrogance of power and the creation of Fox News
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Dec 06, 2018
Story of a guy's weekend turns into social commentary, a subjective nightmare — and a showcase for the performance of the year
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Dec 06, 2018
The two Oscar-nominated actors bring grace and grit to what otherwise feels like a stock, stuffy period piece
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Dec 05, 2018
Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges help turn an overly familiar story into something genuinely heartbreaking
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Dec 05, 2018
The star gives a take-no-prisoners performance as chart-topping musician formed (and scarred) by tragedy
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Dec 03, 2018
Actor-director Andy Serkis takes a harsher, darker, more CGI-heavy look at 'The Jungle Book' — and pings between peaks and uncanny valleys
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Nov 29, 2018
Latest from Japanese anime master Mamoru Hosoda is touching tale about the ties that bind
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Nov 28, 2018
Award-winning festival favorite starts off as rural-peasant realism before taking a hard-left turn — and proves that Alice Rohrwacher is as bold as any filmmaker working today
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Nov 28, 2018
This genre mash-up is exactly the zombie-filled teen-angst holiday musical you've been looking for
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Nov 21, 2018
This Palme d'Or-winning tale of a makeshift clan of middle-class thieves struggling to get by is an absolute stunner
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Nov 21, 2018
The latest take on the outlaw legend is a Thanksgiving turkey that doesn't deserve a pardon
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Nov 20, 2018
Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz and the mighty Olivia Colman turn a period piece into a caustic comeuppance comedy with fangs and claws
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Nov 20, 2018
Animated videogame heroes venture into the world of likes and lulz in hilarious, occasionally haunting look at a life online
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Nov 19, 2018
The Mexican Oscar-winner goes into the past and pays tribute to the women who helped raise him in the cinematic event of 2018
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Nov 16, 2018
Sequel to 2015 'Rocky' spin-off reminds you why Jordan is a movie star — even if it wins on points and not a K.O.
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Nov 15, 2018
Second of J.K. Rowling's Potter-prequel franchise doubles up on the plotting and gives us a blond Johnny Depp — but it's a fans-only affair
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Nov 14, 2018
Filmmaker's loosely autobiographical story about perils of parenthood is part star vehicle, part sappy mush
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Nov 14, 2018
There have been plenty of films about the tortured Dutch artist, but none as evocative and affecting as Julian Schnabel's latest, starring Willem Dafoe
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Nov 13, 2018
Steve McQueen's follow-up to '12 Years a Slave' turns an adaptation of a 1983 British miniseries into the powerhouse thriller of the year
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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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