Reviews
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‘Get Out’ Review: Jordan Peele Scores With a Scary, Funny, Relevant Directorial Debut
Meeting the parents was never this unsettling – and somewhere, the Stepford Wives are smiling
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‘Everybody’ Theater Review: What’s Really Old Is Almost New Again
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ new play is 90 minutes of theatrical whimsy based on a 15th-century classic
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‘Lovesong’ Review: Jena Malone and Riley Keough Let Everything Come Between Them
This almost-romance positions two young female friends as helpless in the face of random circumstances and sexual conformity
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‘Logan’ Review: Hugh Jackman Puts the ‘R’ in Wolverine
You won’t get mature storytelling in this restricted-audiences outing, but there are F-bombs and head-stabbings galore
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‘The Great Wall’ Review: Matt Damon Battles Scary Chinese Monsters
This silly adventure is best enjoyed as a creature-feature for eight-year-olds of all ages
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‘In Dubious Battle’ Review: James Franco Takes on John Steinbeck
Too much darkness and too much yelling mars the prolific Franco’s latest all-star stab at literary adaptation
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‘Evening at the Talk House’ Theater Review: Wallace Shawn Gets Serious, Matthew Broderick Stays Cool
Broderick lets go with character critiques that savage like an assassin’s bullets, but a twist or major reveal is never delivered
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‘Fist Fight’ Review: Ice Cube, Charlie Day Star in an Afterschool Not-So-Special
A screechy, unfunny slab of uninspired outrageousness with two appealing stars circling each other for a showdown you couldn’t care less about
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‘Man From Nebraska’ Theater Review: Tracy Letts Before His Trip to ‘August: Osage County’
A minor play from a major playwright finally makes its New York stage debut
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‘A Cure for Wellness’ Review: Sludgy Horror Film Mistakes Art Direction for Suspense
There’s a terrible secret in this chic Alpine spa, but by the time it’s revealed, you’ll either have guessed it or you won’t care
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‘The Lego Batman Movie’ Review: Animated Superhero Saga Clicks Spoof to Sincerity
DC Comics’ satire/thrill ride understands its characters better than Zack Snyder ever did
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‘Land of Mine’ Review: Danish Oscar Entry Recounts a Dark WWII Story
Denmark’s use of teenage German POWs to clear land mines makes for searing, timely drama
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‘Sunset Boulevard’ Broadway Review: Glenn Close Leads an Awkward Comeback
Close gives a bravura performance — funny, over-the-top, ridiculous — but her silent film star is never vulnerable except when she attempts to sing
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‘Fifty Shades Darker’ Whipped By Critics As ‘Pulse-Poundingly Bad’
“It plays like an un-asked-for collaboration between the Hallmark and Playboy Channels,” writes TheWrap’s Alonso Duralde
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‘Fifty Shades Darker’ Review: At Least They Look Like They’re Enjoying Themselves This Time
Anastasia and Christian are back in a movie that resembles an un-asked-for collaboration between the Hallmark and Playboy Channels