Reviews
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‘My All American’ Review: Aaron Eckhart and Finn Wittrock Fumble Through Gridiron Tear-Jerker
“Hoosiers” and “Rudy” writer Angelo Pizzo directs a schmaltzy football film that’s so gravely square that it plays like unintentional parody
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‘A View From the Bridge’ Broadway Review: Ivo van Hove Strips Arthur Miller to the Bare Bone
Mark Strong, in a powerful performance, turns Eddie Carbone’s tragedy into an utter inability and unwillingness to understand his own motives
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Critics Don’t ‘Love the Coopers’: 7 Worst Reviews of This Holiday Season’s Dysfunctional Family Entry
Diane Keaton and John Goodman lead the ensemble comedy cast a critic describes as one of the most “misguided holiday movies in recent memory”
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‘Love the Coopers’ Review: Diane Keaton and All-Star Cast Celebrate a Messy Yet Heartfelt Christmas
Jessie Nelson’s holiday family reunion movie is sprawling, awkward and contrived, yet brimming with goodwill toward men
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‘W/ Bob and David’ Review: Netflix’s ‘Mr. Show’ Revival Picks Up Where Original Left Off
Bob Odenkirk and David Cross draw plenty of laughs on new series
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‘Concussion’ AFI Review: Will Smith Stars in Timely But Dreary Drama
For all its acknowledgements of football’s beauty, the film makes it unequivocal that going pro might mean an early death
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‘Dada Woof Papa Hot’ Theater Review: John Benjamin Hickey Grapples With New Kind of Marriage
Peter Parnell has a real ear for mixing up the new gay (family values) with the old gay (great, uninhibited sex), and having his lead character torn between the two
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‘Lost Girls’ Theater Review: Piper Perabo Is Mad as Hell at Men and Everybody Else
The men in John Pollono’s new play are so verbally battered by women they could qualify for FEMA
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‘Allegiance’ Broadway Review: George Takei Looks Back at World War II
Rather than focusing on the injustices suffered by Japanese Americans, this new musical finds its voice in the characters’ varied responses to discrimination
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‘By the Sea’ Sinks With Critics: Read Early Reviews of ‘Ponderous’ Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt Drama
“Not much happens. In fact, hardly any words are exchanged by the bickering pair over the course the film’s (at times grueling) 132 minutes,” the Guardian’s critic writes
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Amazon’s New Pilots Reviewed: From Unwatchable to Impossible to Turn Off
Tig Notaro, Christina Ricci and Anna Camp star in the streaming services fall class of prospective series
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‘By the Sea’ AFI Review: Angelina Jolie Pitt Stages Dreary Scenes From a Dull Marriage
The writer-director-star and her husband, Brad Pitt, stare at each other and at the ocean in a soporific drama that teeters on parody
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‘Trumbo’ Review: Bryan Cranston Blasts the Blacklist in a Rousing Hollywood History
Louis CK and Helen Mirren steal scenes in this look at how screenwriters kept working even when Hollywood thought it was shutting down the Red Menace
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‘On Your Feet!’ Broadway Review: Emilio and Gloria Estefan Pay Tribute to Their Own Success
As self-promoting hagiographies go, this new jukebox musical makes “Trump: The Art of the Deal” look modest
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‘Love’ Review: Gaspar Noe’s Sexually Explicit Romance Stays Too Long in the Sack
This gorgeously shot and conceived picture can’t help flagging the longer it goes on