Reviews
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‘Call Me Lucky’ Review: Bobcat Goldthwait Pays Inspiring, Messy Tribute to a Comedy Godfather
A Sundance-honored doc about comedy legend, childhood rape survivor and pedophile hunter Barry Crimmins is no masterpiece, but it gets your attention
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‘Hamilton’ Broadway Review: The Founding Fathers Never Looked or Sounded So Cool
In a Broadway awash with shows about the British royalty, it’s refreshing that America’s far more intriguing past is given a long-overdue dramatization
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‘Fantastic Four’ or Fantastic Flop? 9 Critics’ Most Scathing Reviews
“This is like a generic TV pilot for a show you wouldn’t want to watch,” one critic writes
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‘Mr. Robinson’ Review: ‘Office’ Star’s NBC Sitcom Fails to Find Its Voice
Craig Robinson can’t overcome his new show’s identity crisis
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‘Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet’ Review: Liam Neeson and Salma Hayek Attempt to Put Poetry in Motion
Shabbily animated and altered from the original texts, this confusion of styles is a needless “improvement” on a classic
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‘Fantastic Four’ Review: 10 Minutes of Michael B. Jordan-Kate Mara-Miles Teller Chemistry, 1 1/2 Hours of Bad Story
Latest reboot of Marvel property ends just as it’s finally getting started
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‘Shaun the Sheep’ Review: ‘Wallace & Gromit’ Spin-Off Is Pure, Wordless Entertainment
Aardman, the studio behind “Chicken Run,” offers another stop-motion treat, even if it’s more funny than memorable
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‘Ricki and the Flash’ Review: Meryl Streep Rocks Through a Script That Gathers Moss
Screenwriter Diablo Cody offers up almost-characters in an almost-story, resulting in an almost-movie
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‘Wet Hot American Summer’ Review: Elizabeth Banks, Amy Poehler Stand Out in Wonderfully Weird Prequel
Netflix’s “First Day of Camp” series is occasionally tedious, but guarantees laughs
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‘Straight Outta Compton’ Review: Ice Cube, Dr. Dre and N.W.A. Get a Rich, Rousing Origin Story
The story of one of rap’s most controversial groups, this musical biopic is both rousingly radical and comfortingly conventional — and, perhaps, a little too ambitious in its sprawling scope
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‘Best of Enemies’ Review: Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley Usher in Era of Insult-Driven Political Debate
A timely but unsatisfying exploration of a series of exchanges between conservative Buckley and liberal Vidal makes its case too little and too late
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‘The End of the Tour’ Review: Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg Turn Dialogue into Riveting Cinema
“Infinite Jest” author David Foster Wallace meets Rolling Stone interviewer David Lipsky in film exploring the push and pull between subject and journalist
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‘Vacation’ Gets Burned by Critics: 7 of the Worst Reviews Trashing Ed Helms Sequel
“A rare reboot so foul and humorless it makes you question whatever attachment you might have to the original,” one critic writes
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‘Vacation’ Review: Ed Helms and Christina Applegate Make a Few Precious Memories on a Mostly Tedious Drive
A few gags pop in an otherwise routine sequel that puts a new generation of Griswolds on the holiday road to Wally World
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‘Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation’ Review: Tom Cruise Saves the World (Again) in Slightly Exhausting Adventure
Should you choose to accept it, this fifth entry goes just a bit overboard in delivering the globe-trotting thrills