Reviews
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‘Maudie’ Review: Sally Hawkins Saves an Otherwise Missed Opportunity
Rather than tell the true story of its fascinating heroine — an arthritic Canadian artist — the film settles for predictable, underwritten romance
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Claudia Puig -
‘All Eyez on Me’ Review: Tupac Shakur Biopic Deserves a Bad Rap
One of hip-hop’s leading figures, played by uncanny lookalike Demetrius Shipp Jr., gets a shallow, shoddy rehashing unworthy of its subject
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‘The Book of Henry’ Review: Colin Trevorrow’s Single Mother Drama Is No Page-Turner
What could have been a compelling family saga starring Naomi Watts, Jaeden Lieberher and Jacob Tremblay is buried under an uneven, often silly thriller
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‘Rough Night’ Review: Scarlett Johansson and Friends Have a Funny, Bumpy Ride
Hilarious gags and situations rescue this sloppy comedy from its total lack of structure
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‘Bella’ Theater Review: The Wild West Has Rarely Been This Wild
Kirsten Childs’ Off Broadway musical features a heroine who calls herself Big Booty Tupelo Gal
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‘Julius Caesar’ Theater Review: Trump and the Bard Both Assassinated in Bloody Debacle
Public Theater boss Oskar Eustis directs an incoherent update of Shakespeare’s tragedy in Central Park
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‘Cars 3’ Review: Lightning McQueen Has Mid-Life Crisis as Series Spins Its Wheels
Little kids are the main audience for Pixar’s hit franchise — do they care about aging and obsolescence?
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‘It Comes at Night’ Review: Joel Edgerton Stars in Tense, Mysterious Plague Thriller
Trey Edward Shults’s doomsday nightmare explores the self-sabotage of fear
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‘Beatriz at Dinner’ Review: Salma Hayek Political Satire Oversells Its Message
This immigrant vs. real-estate mogul comedy couldn’t be timelier, but the sparks never fly
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‘Megan Leavey’ Review: Kate Mara Is Semper Fi for Man’s Best Friend
Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite (“Blackfish”) mixes a war story and an uplifting animal tale with efficacy
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‘The Hero’ Review: Sam Elliott Vehicle Doesn’t Do Its Star Justice
Built around Hollywood’s favorite gravelly-voiced cowboy gentleman, this hackneyed, predictable senior drama doesn’t burnish his strengths
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Robert Abele -
‘My Cousin Rachel’ Review: Rachel Weisz Bewitches Sam Claflin in So-So Period Piece
This Daphne du Maurier adaptation falls somewhere between trashy and classy — but either way, it should be more fun
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‘Cost of Living’ Theater Review: But Who’s Taking Care of the Caretakers?
Martyna Majok’s new play explores the lives of those underpaid people who care for others and, in turn, have no one to care for them
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‘The Mummy’ Review: Tom Cruise Kicks Off Universal’s ‘Dark Universe’ With Epic Monstrosity
Despite the novelty of a female mummy and Cruise’s presence, this chaotically unappetizing reboot suggests that some franchises should remain dead
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Robert Abele -
‘Animal’ Theater Review: Rebecca Hall Endures an Extraordinary Journey
Despite a “Snake Pit” ending, Clare Lizzimore’s drama turns one woman’s mental descent into a theatrical tour de force