All 13 Danny Boyle Films, Ranked From Worst to Best (Photos)
Where does “Yesterday” rank in the Oscar-winner’s oeuvre?
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‘Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes’ Film Review: Documentary Crams Ten Pounds of Jazz History Into a Five-Pound Sack
Legendary musicians, great producers, a storied legacy and a new generation of genius is just too much for one movie to cover
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‘Rolling Thunder Revue’ Film Review: Martin Scorsese Chronicles Bob Dylan’s Legendary Bicentennial Tour
Mixing documentary with recreation, Scorsese does his best to get to the truth about the ever-enigmatic musical legend
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‘Pavarotti’ Film Review: Ron Howard Doc Humanizes Opera Legend
Even when friends and loved ones discuss the legendary singer’s foibles, there’s clearly lots of affection for the immortal tenor
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‘Echo in the Canyon’ Film Review: Documentary Takes a Hazy Look at a Key Moment in Rock History
Music legends crafted immortal sounds in Laurel Canyon, but this well-meaning film can’t quite wrap its arms around the story
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‘The Tomorrow Man’ Film Review: Blythe Danner and John Lithgow Overcome Boundaries to Find Love
He’s obsessed with the future and she’s stuck in the past, but in Noble Jones’ impressive debut, together they can live in the now
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‘Homecoming’ Film Review: Beyoncé’s Powerful Documentary Captures Her Once-in-a-Lifetime Coachella Triumph
This exhilarating concert film gives you both a front-row seat to a history-making show and a backstage pass to see how it all came together
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‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ Film Review: Haunting Memory Play Culminates in Bravura 3D Sequence
Chinese director Bi Gan explores nostalgia and obsession in a manner that recalls Tarkovsky, Malick and Wong Kar-wai
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‘Dragged Across Concrete’ Film Review: Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson Are Dirty Cops in a Potentially Trolling Thriller
The director of “Brawl in Cell Block 99” returns with another lengthy action epic that is maddeningly coy about its intentions
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‘The Kid’ Film Review: Vincent D’Onofrio’s All-Star Western Gets Mired in a Sinkhole of Clichés
It’s Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid all over again, and the marquee value of Ethan Hawke, Chris Pratt and Dane DeHaan can’t elevate the sludgy script
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‘Paddleton’ Film Review: Ray Romano and Mark Duplass Face Mortality in Moving, Funny Bromance
The story deals with cancer and assisted suicide, but ultimately this Netflix piece is about two losers helping each other navigate life
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‘American Chaos’ Film Review: Day-Late, Dollar-Short Doc Traces Trump’s Rise to the White House
After endless profiles in The New York Times about What Trump Voters Really Think, the last thing we need is a movie on the same subject
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‘White Boy Rick’ Film Review: Real-Life Drug Saga Bolstered by Strong Performances
Even if Richie Merritt never acts again, he’s made an indelible mark with his naturalist turn as a teenage drug dealer and FBI informant
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‘Peppermint’ Film Review: Jennifer Garner Vengeance Saga Lacks Snap
“Taken” director Pierre Morel returns with another gloriously dumb (and vaguely racist) parental revenge tale
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‘Kin’ Film Review: Genre Mashup About an Alien Weapon Shoots Itself in the Foot
This debut feature from Jonathan and Josh Baker wants to launch a franchise, but it can’t even juggle sci-fi with family drama
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‘Overboard’ Film Review: Flimsy Remake Lacks Buoyancy
This retread, starring Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez manages some charm, but its take on class and labor packs no punch
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‘Active Measures’ Film Review: How Putin’s Tactics Stole Russia, and How They’re Corrupting the USA
Hot Docs 2018: Hillary Clinton and other experts detail Putin’s chicanery — and Trump’s refusal to push back against it
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‘Traffik’ Film Review: Paula Patton Overdoes It in Overwrought Thriller
The scenes run too long, and the characters invariably make ridiculous decisions, but at least Dante Spinotti makes it all look great
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‘The Miracle Season’ Film Review: Volleyball Drama Serves Few Dramatic Spikes
Even with Oscar winners Helen Hunt and William Hurt in the cast, this faith-based sports docudrama gets caught in a formulaic net
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‘Unsane’ Film Review: Claire Foy Is or Isn’t Going Mad in Steven Soderbergh’s Thriller
This tense character piece abandons gimmickry to explore the ways in which women’s voices are ignored
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‘Flower’ Film Review: Talented Cast Set Adrift in Disappointing Teen Satire
Zoey Deutch leads a strong ensemble, but Max Winkler’s dark comedy goes from unfocused to sleazy before a tidy ending
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‘Peter Rabbit’ Movie Review: Beatrix Potter’s Bunny Reduced to Flopsy Sweat
Annoyingly “hip” and clamoring to please, this shrill kid movie lacks charm and fun
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‘The Signal’ Review: Fun with Genre, Even When the Director Out-Clevers Himself
William Eubank’s reach exceeds his grasp, but his twisty second feature establishes him as an interesting filmmaker to watch
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‘Oculus’ Review: Siblings Investigate Things That Go Bump in Their Past
An uneven metaphorical core and a decidedly incomplete mythology prevents “Oculus” from reflecting anything truly haunting
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‘Cesar Chavez’ Review: Michael Peña Captures the Labor Leader’s Magnetic Intensity
Like its namesake, this portrait of the iconic activist thrives on quiet efficacy rather than conspicuous theatricality
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‘Enemy’ Review: It’s Jake Gyllenhaal vs. Jake Gyllenhaal for Double the Mystery
Denis Villenueve’s second collaboration with Jake Gyllenhaal feels like a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in an arachnophobe’s worst nightmare
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‘Kelly & Cal’ Review: New Mom Juliette Lewis Finds an Unlikely Suburban Soulmate
This SXSW premiere stars Lewis and Jonny Weston as two outcasts who find each other in a sweet, sensitive film that doesn’t settle for easy answers
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‘300: Rise of An Empire’ Review: More of the Same, But Slightly Less
Eva Green stands out in a film that’s otherwise a similar second serving of slo-mo ultraviolence and showy camera work
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‘3 Days To Kill’ Review: Kevin Costner Thriller Is Ambitious Disaster Trying to Be Both Action and Comedy
Director McG’s latest suggests the director wasn’t kidding when he named his last movie “This Means War”
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‘About Last Night’ Review: Kevin Hart and Regina Hall Steal This Mixed-Doubles Rom-Com
This reworking of the 1986 comedy gets so much right about love and relationships that you’ll forgive the occasional cliché in the screenplay by Leslye Headland (“Bachelorette”)
