‘The Upside’ Film Review: Kevin Hart Is a Prop for Bryan Cranston’s Growth in Treacly Remake
This remake of “The Intouchables” shares the main flaw of the French original: only the paralyzed white character gets to have layers
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‘Perfect Strangers’ Film Review: Cellphone Secrets Cause Delicious Tension at Dinner
Mexican remake of a much-adapted Italian hit has universal appeal without shying away from cultural specificity
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‘Choir Boy’ Broadway Review: ‘Moonlight’ Writer Looks at a Young Gay Black Man With ‘Swish’
Tarell Alvin McCraney makes an exhilirating Broadway debut
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‘Sgt. Will Gardner’ Film Review: Serious Subject Deserves Smarter Treatment
Writer-director-star Max Martini ineptly tackles the pressing issue of homelessness among veterans
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‘Blue Ridge’ Theater Review: Smart, Angry and Trapped in a North Carolina Recovery Center
Marin Ireland finds no escape from herself in Abby Rosebrock’s fine new play
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‘State Like Sleep’ Film Review: Katherine Waterston and Michael Shannon Float Through Enigmatic Neo-Noir
A top-notch ensemble — which also includes Luke Evans and Mary Kay Place — and talented craftspeople are saddled with a limp narrative
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‘Escape Room’ Film Review: Thriller Commits to Gimmick With Style and Energy
A group of strangers navigate a series of deadly tricks and traps in a movie that, if nothing else, does what it says on the box
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‘How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’ Film Review: Third Time’s a Fire-Breathing Charm
Writer-director Dean DeBlois caps his emotionally intelligent adaptation of the Vikings-and-dragons book series with an enjoyable, beautiful story of destiny and freedom
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‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ Is a Video Game That Makes You Feel Helpless (Review)
A few thoughts on rabbits and rabbit holes
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‘Destroyer’ Film Review: Nicole Kidman Gets Grim in Karyn Kusama Cop Drama
This gritty procedural earns points for its bleak tone, but prepare to be distracted by Kidman’s deglamorization
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‘Destroyer’ Film Review: Nicole Kidman Is Repulsively Brilliant in Hardcore Action Flick
In this dark drama from director Karyn Kusama, Kidman plays a woman reduced to grit and sinew and resolved to see justice done at any cost
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‘Holmes & Watson’ Film Review: Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly Stagger Through Stultifying Sherlockian Spoof
The game’s a-flat in this tedious and unfunny letdown that feels too much like a comedy first draft
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‘Stan & Ollie’ Film Review: Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly Capture Laurel and Hardy On Stage and Off
This smart showbiz story avoids sentimentality and gets to the heart of a great, difficult partnership
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All 8 Adam McKay Movies Ranked Worst to Best, From ‘Anchorman’ to ‘Vice’ (Photos)
How does “Vice” stack up among the comic filmmaker’s output?
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‘On the Basis of Sex’ Film Review: RBG Biopic Celebrates the Political and the Personal
Felicity Jones captures Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s steely gaze in a film that appreciates her family as well as her brilliant legal career
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‘All Is True’ Film Review: Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare Biopic Aims High, Falls Flat
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff, particularly with this much talent on both sides of the camera
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‘Bumblebee’ Film Review: Without Michael Bay as Director, the Best ‘Transformers’ Yet
Director Travis Knight imbues an ’80s-style “magical friend” movie with coherent action and rich characters (including the robots)
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‘Vice’ Film Review: Adam McKay’s Dick Cheney Biopic Shows the Triumph of Mediocrity
The director’s wacky approach feels like the wrong tack for such a horror show of recent history
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‘Second Act’ Film Review: Jennifer Lopez’s Charm Squandered in Tired Rom-Com
The genre is having a resurgence, not that you could tell from this clichéd collection of worn-out tropes and muddled storytelling
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‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Film Review: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda Languish in the Shadow of Giants
The stars give their all to a never charmless (but often charm-adjacent) movie that slavishly follows in the original’s footsteps
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‘Welcome to Marwen’ Film Review: Robert Zemeckis Shrinks a True Story’s Impact to Doll Size
Steve Carell plays a man working through trauma with action figures in a film that seems to shy away from uncomfortable truths
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‘Cold War’ Film Review: Romance in Postwar Europe Is Ravishing and Haunted
Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski returns to Europe in the aftermath of World War II in his first film since the 2013 Oscar winner “Ida”
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‘Bird Box’ Film Review: Sandra Bullock Battles Her Fears in Thoughtful Thriller
Meditations on motherhood and on mankind’s future make Susanne Bier’s latest not your average post-apocalyptic tale
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12 Worst Movies of 2018, From ‘Happytime Murders’ to ‘Ready Player One’ (Photos)
TheWrap’s Best & Worst 2018: Naughty puppets, toe shoes and midlife crises all had a role in the year’s lousiest films
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11 Best Movies of 2018, From ‘Paddington 2’ to ‘Eighth Grade’ (Photos)
TheWrap’s Best & Worst 2018: TheWrap reviews editor Alonso Duralde picks the best narrative features in a competitive year
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‘The House That Jack Built’ Theatrical Cut Film Review: Lars von Trier’s Serial Killer Saga’s a Pointless Bore
Now screening in an R-rated edit, this tale of a possible murderer remains devoid of feeling or interest
