Alonso Duralde
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‘Home Again’ Review: Reese Witherspoon Plays Goldilocks to Three Bores
Actress is wasted in a midlife crisis comedy that marks a negligible debut from writer-director Hallie Meyers-Shyer
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‘Our Souls at Night’ Review: Jane Fonda and Robert Redford Play Nice People in a Nice Romance
Venice: This Netflix drama plays it safe, but the leading players have as much chemistry as ever
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‘The Devil and Father Amorth’ Review: William Friedkin Tackles Satan Again, This Time Awkwardly
Venice: The “real-life exorcism” in this hand-held doc plays as phony and/or exploitative
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The French Were Right About Jerry Lewis – He Was a Genius
On both sides of the camera, Lewis was an innovator — as well as hilarious
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‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ Review: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson Liven Up Routine Shoot-Em-Up
Two charming stars and one canal boat chase aren’t enough to distinguish this Euro-set action-comedy
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‘Crown Heights’ Review: True Story of Injustice Lacks Dramatic Power
Sundance 2017: There’s a powerful tale to be told about an innocent man’s 20-plus years of incarceration, but this isn’t it
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‘The Only Living Boy in New York’ Review: Kate Beckinsale Bewitches a Manhattan Millennial
Yet another insufferable saga from screenwriter Allan Loeb (“Collateral Beauty,” “The Space Between Us”)
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‘Kidnap’ Review: Halle Berry Is One Tough Mother in Cheesy, Breathtaking Thriller
You’ll spend the first half of this B-movie yelling at her character and the second half cheering her on
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Sam Shepard: Playwright at Center Stage (Appreciation)
Shepard’s writing expressed strong feelings with few words
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‘Atomic Blonde’ Review: Charlize Theron Overcomes Bad Guys and the Script in Uneven Spy Thriller
If her brutal agent spawns a franchise, we’ll look back on this entry as a notable first try
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‘The Emoji Movie’ Review: There Are No Words
OMG, this animated feature is a POS with no LOLs
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‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ Review: Luc Besson’s Loony Space Saga Is Gorgeous Nonsense
Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevigne flirt and blast their way through an exquisite universe of silliness
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‘Dunkirk’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s WWII Saga Spins a Sensational Story of Struggle and Survival
The director hits both heart and head (via the nervous system) as he captures one of the global conflict’s most harrowing chapters
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‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Review: Simian Saga Sewn Up Satisfactorily
This climax to the trilogy of new “Apes” movies earns its quotations of John Ford and the Old Testament
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‘The Big Sick’ Review: Kumail Nanjiani Mostly Hits the Mark in Auto-Bio-Rom-Com
Telling his real-life love story, Nanjiani nails the comedy while Holly Hunter and Ray Romano tackle the dramatic heavy lifting