Reviews
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‘Ouija: Origin of Evil’ Review: Chilling Sequel Points to Genuine Terror
This smart and stylish horror film blends spot-on production design and cinematography with scares that don’t rely on cheap shocks
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‘The Whole Truth’ Review: Keanu Reeves, Renee Zellweger Make Their Case in Solid Thriller
Strong performances elevate this occasionally routine legal drama to a verdict of Not Bad
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‘The Cherry Orchard’ Broadway Review: Diane Lane Stars in an Overripe Revival
Oklahoma, as in the state and the Broadway musical, is closer to the world of this production than anything imagined by Anton Chekhov
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‘Max Steel’ Review: An Action Figure Gets Lost in Big-Screen Translation
Dumped in theaters with little fanfare, this toy-based tentpole won’t lead to sequels anytime soon
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‘Desierto’ Review: Gael Garcia Bernal and Jeffrey Dean Morgan Have a Clichéd Border Battle
“Gravity” co-writer Jonás Cuarón goes heavy on tired action movie tropes and light on ideas in Mexico’s Oscar entry
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‘Mascots’ Review: Christopher Guest Is at It Again, This Time With Team Spirit
The director returns to the style that created “Waiting for Guffman” and “Best in Show” for the first time in a decade
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‘Heisenberg’ Broadway Review: Mary-Louise Parker Stuck in Pretentious Physics-Inspired Play
A puny new drama from the author of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”
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‘Coming Through the Rye’ Review: Chris Cooper’s J.D. Salinger Shares Life Lessons
James Steven Sadwith’s directorial debut is a sweetly autobiographical — and mostly successful — tale of a teen’s “Catcher in the Rye” obsession
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‘Christine’ Review: Rebecca Hall Gives Commanding Performance as Suicidal TV Reporter
A bleakly incisive indie about a damaged soul, its unsentimental, icy tone is perfectly balanced by Hall’s compelling, psychologically astute portrait
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‘Kevin Hart: What Now?’ Review: Comedian Connects, Even in the Biggest of Big Rooms
Now the jokes are about home-ownership and private school, but Hart hits his targets, even when playing a record-breaking stadium crowd
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‘The Accountant’ Review: Ben Affleck Excels at Math and Murder in Oddball Origin Story
The title character is a ninja and a crack shot and a whiz at tax deductions in a thriller that understands how silly it is
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‘Tower’ Review: Innovative Doc on America’s First Campus Shooting Is One of Year’s Best
Austin-based filmmaker Keith Maitland’s eyewitness-based account of Charles Whitman’s killing spree uses animation and survivors’ memories to powerful effect
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Robert Abele -
‘Shin Godzilla’ Review: New Reboot Mixes Giant Monsters and Political Satire
Godzilla rises again, only to face government bureaucracy, U.N. meddling and some renegade scientists who might actually fix the situation
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‘Inferno’ Review: Tom Hanks Wheezes Through a Third Dan Brown Go-Round
Absurdity outweighs the thrills in Ron Howard’s lifeless three-quel, a movie that’s not at all good — but never so bad as to be entertaining
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‘Oh, Hello on Broadway’ Review: A Comedy Central Skit Makes the Jump to the Big Stage
Nick Kroll smells bad, John Mulaney doesn’t … And that’s a problem for a comedy about two lumpy old men on Manhattan’s Upper West Side