Reviews
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‘Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension’ Review: Whooshing Poltergeists Spook Stupid Suburbanites
This sixth entry in the found-footage franchise suggests a fatal level of series fatigue
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‘Dames at Sea’ Broadway Review: A Spoof of Classic Hollywood Musicals That’s More Numbing Than Fun
Director-choreographer Randy Skinner struggles to inject life into his revival of a nearly 50-year-old musical oddity
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Vin Diesel’s ‘Last Witch Hunter’ Gets Burned by Critics: 9 Reviews Cursing Action Hero’s Latest Adventure
“It’s just deadly and dreadful, loud and obnoxious, convoluted and irritating, horrible and dumb,” Richard Roeper writes
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‘Nasty Baby’ Review: Kristen Wiig Shines in a Toxic Hipster Comedy
Writer-director-costar Sebastián Silva makes a left turn in his modern-family film that leads to nowhere
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‘Jem and the Holograms’ Review: Musical Cartoon Reboot Is Neither Truly Outrageous Nor Completely Off-Key
This revival of the 1980s TV show is like stuffing your mouth with bubblegum – not that there’s anything wrong with that
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‘Spectre’ Review: 007 Goes Through the Motions in a Perfunctory Adventure
Daniel Craig may or may not return as James Bond, but this relatively listless installment raises flags that the secret agent may be a dinosaur in the age of drones and Wikileaks
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‘First Daughter Suite’ Theater Review: Democrats Will Love It, Nancy Reagan Might Want to Sue
The Public Theater follows its “Hamilton” success with another look at American politics. But here it’s the women who count, from Pat Nixon to Laura Bush
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‘Suffragette’ Review: Carey Mulligan Fights for Women’s Rights in Nuanced Drama
The first women’s movement of the 20th century finally gets the big-screen treatment it deserves
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‘The Last Witch Hunter’ Review: Vin Diesel Casts a Boredom Spell in Effects-Driven Action-Fantasy
Rose Leslie, Michael Caine, and Elijah Wood appear in a derivative supernatural epic in which the biggest star is the special effects
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‘Burnt’ Review: Bradley Cooper Culinary Dramedy Leaves a Bad Taste
This foodie movie is as insufferable as the rock star chefs it portrays
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‘Ripcord’ Theater Review: Felix and Oscar Reborn as Older Women
Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire and director David Hyde-Pierce deliver a new odd couple, played by Marylouise Burke and Holland Taylor
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‘Rock the Kasbah’ Review: Bill Murray Goes to Kabul for Music, Stays for Personal Growth
Barry Levinson’s comedy is mostly a schtick delivery system for his star
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‘I Smile Back’ Review: Sarah Silverman Reinvents Herself in Dour Drama
The comedian goes dark in a film that illuminates its protagonist too little
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‘Truth’ Review: Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford Are Adrift in Preachy Docudrama
Dan Rather’s investigation of George W. Bush’s National Guard service gets exonerated, but only after thudding speeches about journalism
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‘Room’ Review: Brie Larson’s Abduction-Escape Drama Walls Itself In
Flawed narrative diminishes the film’s potency, despite powerhouse performances from Larson and young Jacob Tremblay