Reviews
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NBC’s ‘Game of Silence’ Reviews: ‘Forgettable,’ ‘Convoluted,’ ‘A Grim Test of Endurance’
New series will regularly air on Thursdays at 10 p.m. after last night’s premiere
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‘Florence Foster Jenkins’ Review: Meryl Streep Achieves Greatness as an Awful Singer
The legendary society lady and tone-deaf diva gets a lavish big screen biopic from director Stephen Frears, with great turns by Streep and Hugh Grant
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‘Barbershop: The Next Cut’ Review: Ice Cube Comedy Layers Workplace Sitcom with Social Advocacy
Ensemble piece attempts to balance gags with an examination of the ills of Chicago’s South Side, and mostly pulls it off
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Video Game Review: ‘Ratchet & Clank’ Offers Little New, but Works Anyway
The 13th game in the PlayStation franchise is pure comfort food
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‘Louder Than Bombs’ Review: Jesse Eisenberg Bolsters Joachim Trier’s Powerful English-Language Debut
Norwegian filmmaker makes a smooth transition with this wrenching but hopeful tale of a family confronting its secrets
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‘Criminal’ Review: Kevin Costner Comes Alive in Action Saga That’s Both Ridiculous and Thrilling
As a criminal psychopath implanted with CIA agent Ryan Reynolds’ memories, Costner delivers his most energetic performance since “Silverado”
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‘Demolition’ Review: Jake Gyllenhaal Grapples With Delayed Grief in Dark Dramedy
Despite a third-act skid into sap, this look at a young widower in denial recalls the early, emotionally subversive films of David O. Russell
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Melissa McCarthy’s ‘The Boss’ Gets Fired by Critics: ‘It Is the Worst Kind of Bad Movie’
The comedy costarring Kristen Bell and Peter Dinklage has a score of 19 percent on Rotten Tomatoes
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‘Hardcore Henry’ Review: Murder Meets Motion Sickness in a Go-Go, GoPro Feature
Borrowing heavily from first-person-shooter video games, this visually chaotic Russian death jam that will test the sturdiest stomachs
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Dave White -
‘The Boss’ Review: Melissa McCarthy Has No Laughs on Her Ledger
Re-teaming with her husband Ben Falcone (“Tammy”) as director, co-writer McCarthy plays a disgraced businesswoman in a film that succeeds as neither comedy nor drama
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‘Antlia Pneumatica’ Theater Review: Title Means ‘Air Pump,’ Which Is All You Need to Know
Anne Washburn asks and answers many deep questions in what sometimes resembles a radio play, with the audience too often looking at a bare stage
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‘The Huntsman: Winter’s War’ Review: Charlize Theron Returns for Another Chilly, Silly Adventure
Chris Hemsworth, Jessica Chastain and Emily Blunt strut about this fairytale prequel to little effect — although the visual effects are impressive
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‘The Jungle Book’ Review: ‘Babe’ Meets Rudyard Kipling in Mostly Satisfying Remake
The tigers and the turtles talk in Jon Favreau’s reimagining of the classic Disney cartoon – and the visual trickery satisfies both the eyes and the emotions
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‘God’s Not Dead 2’ Review: Religious Courtroom Drama Should be Held in Contempt
Sequel to the faith-based hit feels less heavy-handed but still treats Christian belief as an argument to be won, and non-believers as villains to be crushed
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Dave White -
‘The Crucible’ Broadway Review: Ben Whishaw, Saoirse Ronan Battle Forces of Evil
Ciaran Hinds and Sophie Okonedo also join the Salem foray in Ivo van Hove’s remarkable and disturbing new staging of an Arthur Miller classic