‘Goodbye Christopher Robin’ Review: True Pooh Story More Than a Run-of-the-Milne Biopic
PTSD and bad parenting balance out the Tiggers and crumpets in this look at the man (and boy) behind Winnie the Pooh
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‘Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood’ Review: Sex Abounded in Hollywood’s Golden Age
TIFF 2017: The director of “Valentino: The Last Emperor” profiles the studio system’s legendary procurer
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‘The Children Act’ Review: Emma Thompson Grapples with Conscience in Sluggish Legal Drama
TIFF 2017: Ian McEwan adapts his own novel about a conflicted judge, but for all the beating gavels, there’s no pulse here
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‘9/11’ Review: Charlie Sheen Drama Avoids Exploitation If Not Familiarity
Gina Gershon and Jacqueline Bisset’s genuinely powerful performances lift up this otherwise routine film
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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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‘Victoria & Abdul’ Review: Judi Dench’s Queen Victoria Keeps This Smarm-ada Afloat
Venice: Stephen Frears traffics in cutesy colonialism but the film offers up all the colors in Dame Judi’s paintbox
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‘Suburbicon’ Review: George Clooney Overplays His Hand With Grotesque ’50s Noir
Venice Film Festival: The mid-century design succeeds where the satire and thriller elements fail
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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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‘Lean on Pete’ Review: Andrew Haigh’s Boy-and-His-Horse Tale Hits Hard
Venice 2017: European director’s U.S. debut embraces both spacious skies and American miserabilism
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‘The Shape of Water’ Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Glorious Romance Blends Horror and Delight
Venice: Sally Hawkins and Doug Jones are swoon-worthy as a star-crossed, human-amphibian couple
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‘First Reformed’ Review: Paul Schrader and Ethan Hawke Channel Robert Bresson
Venice: Hawke’s tormented cleric is part Bresson’s anti-hero, part Travis Bickle
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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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‘Downsizing’ Review: Matt Damon Is the Incredible Shrinking Everyman
Venice 2017: Alexander Payne’s sci-fi comedy examines the human condition in both the macro and the micro
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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
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‘The Confessions’ Review: Tedious Thriller Has Nothing New to Say About Banking and Greed
Toni Servillo (“The Great Beauty”) stars as an anti-materialist monk who does nothing but sermonize and receive exposition dumps
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‘The House’ Review: Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler Win a Few Laughs But Go Home Empty-Handed
This suburbanite casino comedy flirts with relevance and wit but mostly spins its (roulette) wheels
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‘Despicable Me 3’ Review: This Time, Not Enough Minions and Too Many Subplots
Moments of visual flair and absurd comedy get lost amid characters and story points that go nowhere
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‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Review: Michael Bay’s Latest Hot Mess Is Only Slightly Less Messy
Fifth installment allows Mark Wahlberg to play yet another character who’s both the Chosen One and always right about everything
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’47 Meters Down’ Review: Mandy Moore Battles Sharks, Asphyxiation on the Ocean Floor
This no-frills B-movie effectively nudges any and all sea-based phobias
