Reviews
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‘Bad Moms’ Mixed Reviews: Do Female-Led Comedies Get a Bum Rap?
Guy-geared funny movies don’t get hit as hard by critics
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‘Tallulah’ Review: Ellen Page Explores the Darker Side of Motherhood
Fine lead performances from Page, Allison Janney and Tammy Blanchard bring the shine to this somewhat muddled indie
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‘Women He’s Undressed’ Review: Oscar-Winning Costumer Orry-Kelly Lives Again in Rousing Doc
Gillian Armstrong sews together recreations, interviews and vintage film clips to tell the story of an Aussie who made good in Hollywood
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‘Bad Moms’ Review: Mila Kunis and Company Turn This Mother Out
This surprisingly hilarious comedy marries R-rated laughs of the Judd Apatow-Will Ferrell school with Erma Bombeck’s observational hausfrau humor
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‘Pete’s Dragon’ Review: Disney’s High-Flying Remake Far Surpasses Original
Writer-director David Lowery (“Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”) jumps from indie to Disney with a family winner featuring an endearingly terrific dog-like dragon
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‘Jason Bourne’ Reviews: Does Sequel Thrill or Is It Franchise Overkill?
“You’ve seen this movie before,” one critic warns
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‘Gleason’ Review: Moving Sports Doc Captures Football Hero’s Battle with ALS
Director Clay Tweel’s intimate portrait of former New Orleans safety Steve Gleason avoids obvious tear-jerking, making this inspirational tale all the more powerful
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‘Nerve’ Review: Emma Roberts-Dave Franco Online Adventure Has More Than a Few Bugs
The thrills are thrilling, and there’s even a compelling idea or two, but the script for this Internet adventure could have used a version 2.0
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‘Jason Bourne’ Review: Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass Create Action Like Nobody Else
The fourth installment of the kinetic franchise pulls Bourne out of the shadows to battle the CIA once more, resulting in a bravura conspiracy thriller
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‘Star Trek Beyond’ Cuts to the ‘Core of the Series’ Original Appeal,’ and 5 Other Rave Reviews
The 13th film in the franchise will make you feel “like you’re back in your rec room, circa 1967, drinking Tang and waiting for the Tribbles” one reviewer says
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‘Ice Age: Collision Course’ ‘Has Jumped the Sloth’ and 7 Other Cold Reviews
Sequel “feels like it was scripted on the back of a beer mat and animated by the folks behind those straight-to-DVD Barbie movies,” says one critic
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‘Don’t Think Twice’ Review: Mike Birbiglia Charms on Both Sides of the Camera
This comedy about competition in the improv world borrows its central idea from the Morrissey song, “We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful”
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‘Privacy’ Theater Review: Daniel Radcliffe Loses His Way Online but Finds Edward Snowden
James Graham’s comedy features so much audience participation that it resembles the entertainment on a cruise ship captained by Franz Kafka
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‘Star Trek Beyond’ Review: Justin Lin Steers New Crew Into Old-School Adventure
Revamped Enterprise team and its new director cut right to the core of the series’ original appeal
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‘Hillary’s America’ Review: Dinesh D’Souza Indulges in More Confirmation Bias
This “secret history” of the Democratic party merely rehashes the usual Fox News talking points, and D’Souza never met a straw man he couldn’t topple
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Sam Adams