Reviews
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‘London Has Fallen’ Review: Gerard Butler Saves the World Again, Implausibly
Drone strikes and terrorist retaliation give way to a story that relies upon our hero nailing every shot while being missed by thousands of bullets in England’s capital city
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Andy Klein -
Review: Neil Young, 70, Disintegrates His Brand
Neil Young changes everything we thought we knew in one unusual night
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‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ Review: Tina Fey Goes to Kabul in Sharp, Savvy Wartime Comedy
Reteaming with “30 Rock” collaborator Robert Carlock gives Fey her best big-screen opportunity to date, as a sheltered news producer who finds herself on the front lines
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‘A Room of My Own’ Theater Review: Mario Cantone, Ralph Macchio Remember a Meatball Mama
The sleeping arrangement in “A Raisin in the Sun” is luxurious compared to what the Morelli family endures. Also, they’re a lot funnier than the Youngers
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‘Hughie’ Broadway Review: Forest Whitaker Makes Debut in Edward Hopper-Style O’Neill
The Oscar-winning actor delivers a most endearing Erie, right down to the nervous giggle he adds to punctuate the character’s otherwise bottomless despair
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‘Gods of Egypt’ Review Roundup: Critics Pan Whitewashed ‘Bad Video Game’
One critic uses a colonoscopy metaphor
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‘Fuller House’ Review: When ’90s Nostalgia Goes Wrong
Netflix revival series is an irritating mix of sappy and meta
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‘The Other Side of the Door’ Review: If Death Knocks, Don’t Bother Answering
Any potential this thriller might have had for psychological or ideological depth gets lost in a morass of jump-scares and loud noises
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Dave White -
‘Smokefall’ Theater Review: Zachary Quinto Goes from Footnote to Fetus and Back
Noah Haidle’s play takes us inside the womb to give us the inside track on what it’s like to be born. It’s as audacious as it is pretentious
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‘Nice Fish’ Theater Review: Mark Rylance Takes the Plunge as Actor and Author
Rylance offers an older version of Sean Penn in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” in this play about ice fishing, thermal underwear and life up north
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‘The Witch’ Review Roundup: Critics Call Occult Odyssey Year’s First Horror Success
Robert Eggers’ debut praised as a high-tension horror show
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‘Risen’ Review: Christian Epic Nearly Resurrects Faith-Based Cinema
The Christian genre expands and improves in Joseph Fiennes vehicle that glides beautifully before crashing abruptly
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‘Race’ Review: Jesse Owens Biopic Is Uncommonly Engaging Sports Story
Stephan James and Jason Sudeikis play the Olympian and his devoted coach in a soaring story that isn’t afraid to explore moral depths
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‘Love’ Review: Judd Apatow’s Netflix Series Cleverly Explores 21st-Century Courtship
Later episodes get bogged down in subplots that feel like busywork, but Apatow’s latest foray into the wilds of the human heart offers modest, charming misadventures
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‘Buried Child’ Theater Review: Ed Harris, Amy Madigan Dig Deep Into Sam Shepard Territory
Nat Wolff (“The Fault in Our Stars”) and Taissa Farmiga (“American Horror Story”) also star in revival of a play with no good words for the male sex