‘Minding the Gap’ Film Review: Powerful Doc Depicts Skateboarders In Transition to Adulthood
The damaged young pleasure-seekers in Bing Liu’s Sundance-winning documentary discover that carving out a life is hard
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‘Mile 22’ Film Review: Mark Wahlberg Shoots Off Weapons and His Mouth to Diminishing Results
Wahlberg is a special-forces smarty-pants who won’t shut up in Peter Berg’s exhaustingly numbing saga of violence
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‘The Wife’ Film Review: Glenn Close Steps Out of a Famous Husband’s Shadow
In awards-worthy roles, Close and Jonathan Pryce cultivate that sense of intimacy that only exists after many, many years together
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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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‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Film Review: Constance Wu Stands Out in Culturally Rich Rom-Com
A high caliber all-Asian cast is reason enough to watch this wonderful adaption of Kevin Kwan’s best-selling novel, but far from the only one
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‘Gettin’ the Band Back Together’ Broadway Review: They Were Better Off Going Solo
A new musical about the unemployed in New Jersey recalls the glory days of the vanity show on Broadway
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‘Slender Man’ Film Review: This Creepy Boogeyman Is Boring, and Not the Least Bit Scary
Sylvain White’s dim and dimly-lit supernatural thriller isn’t as frightening as the internet meme that inspired it
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‘Be More Chill’ Theater Review: This Coming-of-Age Musical Is a Real Pill to Swallow
An internet phenomenon, based on Ned Vizzini’s cult novel, arrives on stage with all the flavor of fast-food chicken. It’s crispy
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‘Madeline’s Madeline’ Film Review: Experimental Psychodrama Dives Deep, Surfaces With a New Star
Director Josephine Decker touches on universal truths rarely found inside a multiplex with the help of striking newcomer Helena Howard
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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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‘BlacKkKlansman’ Film Review: Spike Lee Looks Back – and Forward – in Anger
Based on the true story of a black cop who infiltrated the KKK, this is Lee’s most vital and impassioned film in decades
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‘Dog Days’ Film Review: Intertwined Lives of Owners and Pets Makes for Obediently Heartwarming Comedy
You won’t be surprised by its sentiment or observations, but this well-cast celebration of the timeless bond between humans and dogs is nimbly funny
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‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’ Film Review: Kate McKinnon Shines in Joke-and-Dagger Pairing With Mila Kunis
“SNL” star elevates Susanna Fogel’s affectionately silly mix of sisterhood laughs and violent spy action
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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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‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’ Film Review: Chloë Grace Moretz Plays a Rebellious Lesbian Teen
The young actress grounds Desiree Akhavan’s understated drama about gay conversion therapy
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‘Never Goin’ Back’ Film Review: Texas Teenagers Take a Bumpy Ride in Wild Indie Comedy
Augustine Frizzell’s righteously raunchy girls-on-filth spree has a rollicking spirit and two engaging lead performances
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‘Nico, 1988’ Film Review: Biopic Shows Compassion for an Artist’s Slow, Sad Descent
Trine Dyrholm embodies Velvet Underground chanteuse Nico’s stubborn defiance in Susanna Nicchiarelli’s melancholy film
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‘Twelfth Night’ Theater Review: Nikki M James Shines in a Speedy Musical Revival
If music be the food of love, this lively 90-minute production shows, you need not play on and on and on
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‘The Darkest Minds’ Film Review: YA Tale Delivers Its Allegories With Crisp Efficiency
You’ve seen these post-apocalyptic, super-powered teens before, but strong performances and smart direction give this flick a kick
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‘The House That Will Not Stand’ Theater Review: A Mesmerizing Look at Women in 1813 New Orleans
Free women of color cope with the Louisiana Purchase in Marcus Gardley’s often funny new play
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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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‘Mission Impossible: Fallout’ Film Review: Cruise-ing for Bruising Action in This Jam-Packed Six-Quel
No franchise blahs in this roaring whirligig of stunts and peril from Christopher McQuarrie
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Every National Lampoon Movie Ranked, Worst to Best (Photos)
As “Animal House” turns 40 and “Vacation” turns 35, here’s a look at the films that bear the magazine’s name
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‘Head Over Heels’ Broadway Review: The Go-Go’s Travel Back to the 17th Century
In the time-honored tradition of “Mamma Mia!,” the hit songs have nothing to do with the tale being told
