Reviews
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‘iZombie’ Review: CW’s Fun Police Procedural Has the Right Mix of Sleuthing and Snogging
Network gleefully slurps up every last sloppy morsel remaining of the zombie genre with creator Rob Thomas’ latest series
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‘Community’ Review: Creator Dan Harmon Finds Better Balance Between Character and Crazy
First two episodes of Season 6 on Yahoo! Screen introduce new cast members Paget Brewster (“Criminal Minds”) and Keith David (“Enlisted”)
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‘Spy’ SXSW Review: Melissa McCarthy Saves the World in a Bawdy, Bloody Espionage Comedy
Reteaming with her director from “Bridesmaids” and “The Heat,” McCarthy scores again as a CIA agent who blossoms with her first field assignment
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‘Posterity’ Theater Review: ‘I Am My Own Wife’ Author Wrestles With the Legacy of Another Playwright
Art rarely survives when it is delivered with a capital A. Make that several capital A’s in the case of Doug Wright’s new play about Henrik Ibsen
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‘On the Twentieth Century’ Theater Review: Kristin Chenoweth Is Back on the Fast Track
Actress retires her pipsqueak Dietrich, and the show’s four porters impersonate a train so well you can almost get high on their smoke
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‘The Cobbler’ Review: Adam Sandler Fable Takes Too Many Missteps
The good news is that this isn’t one of Sandler’s usual gross-out comedies, the bad news is that it’s a mess anyway
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‘The Royals’ Review: E!’s Elizabeth Hurley Drama Is a Not So Guilty Pleasure
From “One Tree Hill” creator Mark Schwahn, this scripted series is addictive, naughty and just the right amount of silly
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Adam Sandler’s ‘The Cobbler’ Gets Sole-Crushing Reviews From Critics
This weekend is not a good time to walk a mile in the actor’s shoes
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‘Cinderella’ Review: Kenneth Branagh Tells a Sumptuous, Straightforward Fairy Tale (Video)
If you were expecting “Maleficent”-style revisionism, forget it
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‘It Follows’ Review: Horror Film Scores Big on Originality
David Robert Mitchell’s sophomore film reinvents horror by eschewing the genre’s common tricks
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‘Insurgent’ Review: Shailene Woodley Returns in YA Cinema’s Most Generic Franchise
Snazzy effects and slumming Oscar-winners aside, not much makes this film stand out from its many competitors
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‘Seymour: An Introduction’ Review: Ethan Hawke Celebrates the Art of Teaching Music
Director Hawke finds a fascinating subject — and adopts an overly respectful approach — in his portrait of a charismatic retired concert pianist with a lifetime of stories
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‘Powers’ Review: Crime Caper Genre Gives Fresh Perspective on Superheroics
Based on the long-running comic series, PlayStation scripted series offers a ground-level take on a world with costumed superheroes
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‘Run All Night’ Review: Liam Neeson and Ed Harris Face Off in a Pulpy Ticking-Clock Thriller
A boozy, haunted hitman has just one night to protect his son from a crime boss’ wrath in Neeson’s latest entertainingly trashy team-up with director Jaume Collet-Serra
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‘The Returned’ Review: New A&E Drama’s Edge Gets Lost in Translation
Carlton Cuse and Raelle Tucker’s series is a serviceable but mostly by-the-numbers remake