Reviews
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‘Les Cowboys’ Review: French ‘Searchers’ Goes in Too Many Directions
A Westerns-loving French dad looks for his possibly radicalized teenage daughter in this country-hopping but overstuffed dramatic thriller
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‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ Review: Will Smith Is Sorely Missed in This Fun-Deficient Sequel
The spaceships and the destruction are bigger but not better in Roland Emmerich’s 20-years-later follow-up, where only Jeff Goldblum’s sense of humor saves the day
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‘Free State of Jones’ Review: Matthew McConaughey Leads Mixed-Race Rebellion to Mixed Results
A curiously forgotten episode in Civil War history gets an educational but emotionally dry telling from writer-director Gary Ross
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‘Ice Age: Collision Course’ Review: Ray Romano and Company Return for Another Laugh-less Adventure
This series is so blandly forgettable that parents could probably show an earlier entry to their kids and pretend it’s the new one
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‘Orange Is the New Black’ Review: Netflix Prison Dramedy Courts Danger, Reaches New Heights
Season 4 debuts on Friday
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‘Central Intelligence’ Review: Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart’s Chemistry Can Only Do So Much
This barely-there action-comedy relies heavily on the charm of its leading men, and even they make something less than a classic comic duo
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‘Tickled’ Review: Documentarians Track Secretive Online Fetishists
The more “competitive tickling” web moguls hide from two New Zealand filmmakers, the harder they’re pursued in this uncomfortably hilarious doc
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‘The Taming of the Shrew’ Theater Review: All-Woman Revival in Central Park Sends Up Donald Trump
Under the direction of Phyllida Lloyd, the Public Theater’s production ends up with a lot of small men on stage
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‘BrainDead’ Review: ‘Good Wife’ Creators Daringly Skewer the D.C. Horrorshow
New show from Robert and Michelle King combines the tropes of a horror movie, the pace of a forensic drama and the barbs of a political satire
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‘OJ: Made in America’ Is a ‘Masterpiece’ and 7 Other Glowing Reviews
ESPN’s “30 for 30” documentary series from director Ezra Edelman leaves no “stone left unturned, no eerie vibe left unfelt,” one critic says
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‘Finding Dory’ Is One of Pixar’s ‘Funniest, Most Emotionally-Rich Movies, and 5 Other Doting Reviews
The sequel to 2003’s “Finding Nemo” has a stellar score of 92 percent on Rotten Tomatoes
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‘Finding Dory’ Review: Ellen DeGeneres Performs Swimmingly in Sprightly Pixar Sequel
This sequel to “Finding Nemo” is less of an assault on the tear ducts, but the laughs and thrills more than compensate
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‘Shining City’ Theater Review: Matthew Broderick Sleepwalks Through Conor McPherson’s Ghost Story
Star plays a grieving middle-aged businessman in uneven Off Broadway revival
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‘Lights Out’ LAFF Review: Haunted House Spookfest Is More On Than Off
First time feature filmmaker David F. Sandberg expands on his viral video sensation about a terror seen only in the dark — and finds genre fun, if not necessarily genuine scares
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‘Conjuring 2’ Is ‘Scary Good’ and 7 Other Chilling Reviews
“A horror experience that ranks as one of the better offerings of the last few years,” writes one critic