‘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
