Reviews
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‘Steve Jobs’ Review: Michael Fassbender Bolsters an Incomplete Portrait of Apple Mogul
Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin throws out the biopic rules, but fails to create new and better ones
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‘Old Times’ Broadway Review: Clive Owen, Kelly Reilly and Eve Best Reinvent Pinter
The actors share a feverish imagination that doesn’t have much to do with the text, but nonetheless illuminates it in quirky ways
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‘Goosebumps’ Review: Jack Black Horror Spoof Is Nostalgia Done Right
Black stars as author (and monster hunter) R.L. Stine in a silly, rollicking adventure that doesn’t take itself too seriously
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‘Bridge of Spies’ NYFF Review: Tom Hanks Is Steven Spielberg’s All-American Cold Warrior
This true-life tale of espionage and international intrigue plays intelligently and suspensefully until Spielberg gives in to mawkishness
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‘Addicted to Fresno’ Review: Judy Greer and Natasha Lyonne’s Sister Act Is a Slight Delight
With minor chuckles and a dash of melancholy, this comedy is neither as lightweight nor as bad as it might seem
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‘Freeheld’ Review: Julianne Moore and Ellen Page Star in True Tale of Discrimination
It’s an undeniably powerful movie occasionally undone by its need to walk straight audiences through a fight for LGBT rights
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‘He Named Me Malala’ Review: Flat Portrait of Nobel Winner Belongs in Schools, Not Cineplexes
Oscar-winning documentarian Davis Guggenheim offers more talking points than insight
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‘The Martian’ Review: Matt Damon’s a Superhero of Science in Ridley Scott’s Survival Saga
This captivating Red Planet adventure reminds us that sometimes it’s brains — not brawn — that mean the difference between life and death
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‘Antigone’ Theater Review: Juliette Binoche Meets Her Match in a Fascist Ruler and His Son
Actress, who exudes a moody spirituality on film, effortlessly takes moral high ground in a new revival in Brooklyn
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‘Spring Awakening’ Theater Review: Kids Just Want to Have Fun, the Adults Won’t Let Them
This Broadway revival will make you wonder why all actors in all musicals don’t use American Sign Language to convey what they’re singing
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‘The Walk’ NYFF Review: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Stays Aloft in Robert Zemeckis’ High-Wire Drama
Like its aerialist hero, this saga of the tightrope walk between the Twin Towers overcomes many potential disasters on its way to triumph
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‘Mississippi Grind’ Review: Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn Deal a Winner
An endearing story of new friends with a shared gambling addiction makes you wager on whether their engaging personalities will edge out their risky behavior
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‘Hotel Transylvania 2’ Review: Adam Sandler Proves He’s Not Entirely a Lost Cause
Sandler and his usual crew of co-stars find their most humane characters in this rowdy collection of monsters and rapid-fire jokes
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‘The Green Inferno’ Review: Eli Roth’s Cannibal Horror Flick Is Racially Reprehensible
Roth’s brutal homage to Italian horror is mired in exploitation — and not in the good way
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‘Stonewall’ Review: Roland Emmerich’s Historical LGBT Drama Is the Other Kind of Disaster Movie
The man behind “Independence Day” and “White House Down” wants to celebrate the riot that launched the gay rights movement, but gets it all wrong