Reviews
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‘Jessabelle’ Review: Southern Gothic Tale Best When It Forgets It’s a Horror Movie
Disturbing family secrets make for an unexpectedly touching mother-daughter story between Sarah Snook and Joelle Carter, but the scares are mostly missing
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‘The Showrunners’ Review: Engaging Look Behind-The-Scenes With J.J. Abrams, Bill Prady and Co.
TV producers that run shows including “The Good Wife,” “House of Lies” and “The Big Bang Theory” share their insights
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‘Olive Kitteridge’ Review: Frances McDormand Battles Small-Town Saps in HBO’s Gloriously Flinty Mini
Miniseries also stars Richard Jenkins as her upbeat husband, and Bill Murray as a wealthy resident of their coastal Maine town
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‘The Taking of Deborah Logan’ Is a Netflix Horror Gem: 7 More Awesome Picks For Halloween Weekend
Catch up on the camp you may have missed in the ’80s, a creepy documentary about a real-life boogeyman, and one of the best vampire films ever made
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‘Horns’ Reviews: Is This Daniel Radcliffe Vehicle Worth the Price to Ride?
Critics are mixed on this horrorific social satire from “The Hills Have Eyes” remake director Alexandre Aja
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‘The Real Thing’ Theater Review: Ewan McGregor, Maggie Gyllenhaal Live Up to Tom Stoppard’s Title
Actors’ chemistry is like Hepburn and Tracy’s only in reverse; she’s solid and implacable, he’s high-strung and nervously pecking around for a way to chip into her guarded world
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‘Horns’ Review: Daniel Radcliffe Embarks on a Devilish Pursuit of Justice
Horror director Alexandre Aja juggles fantasy, comedy, mystery, romance and drama, rarely dropping any of his spinning plates
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‘The McCarthys’ Review: CBS’s New Family Comedy Is a Slam Dunk
Star Tyler Ritter is a breath of fresh air on the Boston-set series
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‘Nightcrawler’ Review: Jake Gyllenhaal Astonishes in Extraordinary Thriller
Actor exposes the lurid underbelly of TV news while seducing Rene Russo (sexually) and Riz Ahmed (financially) in Dan Gilroy’s merciless satire
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‘Before I Go To Sleep’ Review: Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth in Satisfying Amnesia Thriller
Not much new to be found here, but this brisk drama features a top-drawer cast, including Mark Strong as a potentially nefarious doctor
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‘Interstellar’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Sci-Fi Epic Launches Perfectly, Crumbles Upon Landing (Video)
The universe-spanning saga — starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, and Jessica Chastain — is challenging, provocative, and gorgeous. Until it isn’t
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‘Boardwalk Empire’ Finale Reviews: Uneven Series Offers Predictable But Satisfying Farewell
In an episode that felt like a prolonged goodbye to Steve Buscemi’s Nucky Thompson, the HBO series left little ambiguity about his fate
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‘The Walking Dead’ Gets Back to the Business of Killing and Dying
Fallout from Bob’s encounter with Gareth and his people from Terminus leads to one of the most brutal and savage scenes yet on the AMC smash hit
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‘The Last Ship’ Theater Review: Sting Takes a Cruise to Nowhere
At its best, Sting’s score is pre-Sondheim. But it’s good pre-Sondheim. Too bad John Logan and Brian Yorkey’s book about a boat doesn’t float
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‘Camp X-Ray’ Review: Kristen Stewart Goes to Gitmo, Without a Script
“Female U.S. soldier bonds with Guantanamo Bay detainee” works as a pitch, but it’s never successfully fleshed out as a story