‘Anna and the Apocalypse’ Film Review: Zombies, Musicals and Christmas Make a Merry Mash-Up
Delightfully shaggy and low-budget, this cheeky indie marries song, dance, the undead, and the holidays
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‘The Favourite’ Film Review: Emma Stone Plays an 18th Century Eve Harrington in a Twisted Historical Farce
Venice 2018: Olivia Colman’s needy, vulnerable Queen Anne steals the show in the latest from Yorgos Lanthimos (“The Killing of a Sacred Deer”)
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‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ Film Review: Disappointing Sequel Offers a Few Good Clicks
A handful of great sequences lifts this by-the-numbers animated film only so much
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Stan Lee Appreciation: Marvel Comics Mogul Was Interactive Long Before the Internet
He didn’t need Twitter or Reddit to make fans feel like he was talking directly to them — often about himself
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‘Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch’ Film Review: Benedict Cumberbatch Helps Make Third Time Charming
Nothing will replace the 1966 original, but this shiny remake is full of warmth and wit
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‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’ Film Review: Coen Brothers Western Anthology Makes for an Uneven Binge
This omnibus film is an entertaining fribble that peaks early
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‘Nobody’s Fool’ Film Review: Tyler Perry Makes Tiffany Haddish Do All the Work
Sloppy and slipshod even by Perry standards, this R-rated comedy perks up only when Haddish is on screen
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‘The Nutcracker and the Four Realms’ Film Review: This Sugarplum Is Rancid
Too much eye-assaulting CG and not enough Misty Copeland are just two of the problems with this bloated, un-whimsical tale
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‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Film Review: Queen Bio Won’t Exactly Rock You
Rock saga is more interesting as an origin story of Queen’s hits than as a Freddie Mercury biopic
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‘Suspiria’ Film Review: Luca Guadagnino’s Misguided Horror Remake Falls Flat
Despite Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton’s best efforts, this remake is crammed with too many aimless ideas and not enough scares
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‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ Film Review: Melissa McCarthy Forges Strong Performance
As a legendary literary faker, McCarthy brings the bubbling rage of her best comic creations to a dramatic role
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‘First Man’ Film Review: Ryan Gosling and Damien Chazelle Slip the Surly Bonds of Earth
Venice 2018: This haunting, thrilling space saga reminds us that the path to the moon was littered with chaos and catastrophe
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‘The Hate U Give’ Film Review: Teen Drama Unflinchingly Examines Racism
Amandla Stenberg leads a talented ensemble in a powerful tale of the aftermath of a police shooting
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‘A Star Is Born’ Film Review: Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga Reinvigorate a Classic
Venice 2018: First-time director and first-time leading lady breathe new life into a Hollywood mainstay
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‘Venom’ Film Review: Tom Hardy Gets Buried in CG Goo, as Does the Plot
Spider-Man’s legendary arch-nemesis returns to the screen in a listless dud
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‘Smallfoot’ Film Review: Fun Ideas Get Buried Under Avalanche of Mediocrity
There’s more than the usual kid-movie moralizing here, but the jokes, music and visual design break no new ground
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‘Assassination Nation’ Review: Verve Carries the Day in Scattershot Satire
This colorful mash-up of classic cinema tropes goes in a million directions, but sheer chutzpah gets it across the finish line
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‘Jane Fonda in Five Acts’ Film Review: Doc Explores the Many Lives of the Actress-Activist
Like Fonda’s 2005 memoir, the film shows a woman bouncing back brilliantly from tragedy and regret
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‘The Sisters Brothers’ Film Review: John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix Saddle Up for an Extraordinary Western
Venice 2018: Jake Gyllenhaal and Riz Ahmed co-star in this funny, tragic, intimate epic from Jacques Audiard (“A Prophet”)
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‘The Children Act’ Film Review: Emma Thompson Grapples With Conscience in Sluggish Legal Drama
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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‘Lizzie’ Film Review: Chloë Sevigny Makes the Infamous Killer a Rebel With a Cause
Sevigny and Kristen Stewart are homicidal lovers in a haunting tale of love and slaughter
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Burt Reynolds Appreciation: A Classic Movie Star With a Modern Sense of Humor
He made comedy and drama look equally easy, and he created a new kind of sex symbol
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‘Support the Girls’ Film Review: Regina Hall Uplifts Observant Workplace Comedy
All the world’s a Hooters in this sharp look at sisterhood from writer-director Andrew Bujalski
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‘The Happytime Murders’ Film Review: Melissa McCarthy Valiantly Plays Along in One-Joke Comedy
Brian Henson’s puppets-gone-bad gimmick takes this labored detective spoof only so far before running out of stuffing
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‘The Meg’ Film Review: Jason Statham Swims With Really, Really Big Sharks
This monster-shark movie delivers a handful of decent PG-13 scares, but the characters are just chum
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‘Skate Kitchen’ Film Review: Female Skateboarders Find Freedom on 4 Wheels
The narrative debut from Crystal Moselle (“The Wolfpack”) shows talented girls supporting each other’s right to grind
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‘Christopher Robin’ Film Review: A.A. Milne’s Young Hero Has a Hundred-Acre Mid-Life Crisis
This semi-live-action “Winnie the Pooh” sequel is slow and charmless, fit for neither children nor adults
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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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‘Teen Titans GO! to the Movies’ Film Review: TV Adaptation Sticks It to Big-Screen Superheroes
A tireless barrage of gags and inside-comics references makes this Cartoon Network feature a silly treat
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‘Blindspotting’ Film Review: Ambitious Oakland Tale Suffers From Too Many Ideas
Carlos López Estrada’s feature directorial debut gets overwhelmed by abrupt shifts in tone and an excess of hot-button issues
