‘La La Land’ Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Trip the Light Fantastic
In his follow-up to “Whiplash,” writer-director Damien Chazelle serves up a recognizable Los Angeles that’s also a singing, dancing land of dreams
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‘Office Christmas Party’ Review: Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston Stuck in Bah-Humbug Comedy
Yuletide bacchanal sorely lacks bowlful-of-jelly laughs, unless national treasure Kate McKinnon’s on screen
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‘Things to Come’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Dazzles in Coming-of-Middle-Age Tale
The French actress offers another unforgettable performance as a woman who loses everything but keeps going
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‘Miss Sloane’ Review: Jessica Chastain’s Complicated Lobbyist Feels Cable-Ready
The actress does her best to fill in the script’s character gaps, but the whole enterprise is undone by some third-act switcheroos
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‘Rules Don’t Apply’ Review: Warren Beatty Makes Great Pieces That Don’t Quite Fit Together
There’s a Howard Hughes biopic and a lovely Hollywood romance going on here, but they never quite cohere enough to make one movie between them
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‘Moana’ Review: Dwayne Johnson Invigorates Disney’s South Seas Saga
This latest animated adventure is mostly business as usual, but the title character does bolster the studio’s roster of non-princess heroines
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‘Take Me to the River’ Review: This Family Reunion Plays Like Polanski, With Cicadas
Writer-director Matt Sobel’s extraordinary debut feature boasts a powerful ensemble cast and finds the tension in what people don’t talk about
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‘Nocturnal Animals’ Review: Tom Ford Gambles Big and Wins on Second Feature
Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star in a film that successfully melds grit and glamour, the past and present, fiction and reality
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‘Arrival’ Review: Amy Adams Talks to Aliens in Cerebral Sci-Fi Story
Denis Villeneuve’s tale of humanity’s first contact with ETs wants to appeal to both the heart and the head, but it succeeds mostly above the shoulders
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‘Almost Christmas’ Review: Danny Glover and Mo’nique Serve Up Holiday Satisfaction
If you come to Christmas movies for laughs, poignancy and familial reconciliation, this all-star cast provides it in abundance
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‘Loving’ Review: Civil Rights Tale Captures Soft-Spoken Southern Humanity
Writer-director Jeff Nichols takes a low-key approach to the interracial couple whose marriage battle went to the Supreme Court
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‘Hacksaw Ridge’ Review: Mel Gibson Says War Is Hell — Except When It’s Awesome
The “Passion of the Christ” director extols pacifism with one hand while making war brutally exciting with the other
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‘Trolls’ Review: Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick Are Floppin’ to the Oldies
Shrill Kidz Bop-ish covers and an eye-assaulting color scheme make for one awful animated adventure
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‘Doctor Strange’ Review: Benedict Cumberbatch Brings a Little Magic to the Marvel Universe
Just when you’d given up on superheroes and CGI, along comes a funny, exciting, trippy movie with an interesting take on both
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‘Jack Reacher: Never Go Back’ Review: Tom Cruise Hits Marks, Punches Faces in Fun, Formulaic Sequel
This follow-up is as featureless and generic as its title, but the action and the banter make for a pleasant, if disposable, trip to the movies
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‘Keeping Up with the Joneses’ Review: Jon Hamm and Zach Galifianakis Waste Their Time, and Ours
Inane spy spoof doesn’t deserve its cast (which also includes Gal Gadot and Isla Fisher) or its director (Greg Mottola)
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‘Kevin Hart: What Now?’ Review: Comedian Connects, Even in the Biggest of Big Rooms
Now the jokes are about home-ownership and private school, but Hart hits his targets, even when playing a record-breaking stadium crowd
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‘The Accountant’ Review: Ben Affleck Excels at Math and Murder in Oddball Origin Story
The title character is a ninja and a crack shot and a whiz at tax deductions in a thriller that understands how silly it is
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‘Shin Godzilla’ Review: New Reboot Mixes Giant Monsters and Political Satire
Godzilla rises again, only to face government bureaucracy, U.N. meddling and some renegade scientists who might actually fix the situation
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‘Middle School’ Review: Pre-Teen Comedy-Drama Succeeds at Neither
Both the laughs and the tear-jerking fall flat in this herky-jerky adaptation of James Patterson’s junior-high novels
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‘Blue Jay’ Review: Sarah Paulson and Mark Duplass Shine in Actors’ Showcase
The Duplass-scripted dramedy breaks little new ground, but watching these performers flex their talents justifies the effort
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’13th’ NYFF Review: Ava DuVernay Connects the Dots From Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter
This harrowing Netflix documentary examines how treating black American males as criminals has perpetuated systematic oppression
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‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’ Review: Tim Burton Gums Up the Works
What should have been a charming mix of the bizarre and the charming gets weighted down with clumsy plotting and exposition
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Curtis Hanson Remembered: A Filmmaker Who Was Also a Movie Lover
Writer-director’s love for old Hollywood went way beyond his brilliant screen version of James Ellroy’s “L.A. Confidential”
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‘Storks’ Review: Andy Samberg Delivers Laughs and Babies in Charming Animated Adventure
Writer and co-director Nicholas Stoller’s script achieves hilarity and poignancy by following storytelling rules — and breaking them, too
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‘The Oliver Stone Experience': Matt Zoller Seitz Gets Deep With the Auteur
“He’s a very conflicted guy, and there are a lot of areas where he’s contradictory, conflicted,” author tells TheWrap about the Oscar-winning filmmaker
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‘Blair Witch’ Review: Generation Selfie Gets Lost in the Woods
The tech may be updated, but this remake of the 1999 horror hit follows an all-too-familiar roadmap (now with GPS!)
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‘Katie Says Goodbye’ Toronto Review: A Young Woman’s Destruction Gets Served Up, Once Again, As Entertainment
Toronto 2016 Review: First-time writer-director Wayne Roberts clearly empathizes with his young heroine, but ties her to the railroad tracks anyway
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‘Snowden’ Toronto Review: Oliver Stone Plays It Aesthetically Safe
Toronto 2016: Stone names the right (and left) names in this biopic of the whistle-blower, but his storytelling style lacks punch
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‘London Road’ Review: True-Crime Musical Overstays Its Welcome
Olivia Colman stars (and Tom Hardy has a cameo) in this movie that sets eyewitness transcripts to music, a clever idea that can’t sustain an entire feature
