Reviews
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‘Hector and the Search for Happiness’ Review: Simon Pegg Woefully Miscast in This Imbecilic Waste of Time
Rosamund Pike and Christopher Plummer accompany Pegg as he globe-trots
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‘How to Get Away With Murder’ Review: Split Verdict on Shonda Rhimes Legal Drama
Students are nowhere as powerful as their teacher, played by Viola Davis, on ABC’s new drama
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‘Black-ish’ Review: Funny ABC Comedy Fearlessly Tackles Race
Anthony Anderson stars as a dad who worries that his kids are too assimilated
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‘The Mysteries of Laura’ Review: Debra Messing’s Mom Cop Breezes Past Tired Dialogue
Plotting is extremely broad in NBC’s hybrid show, based on a Spanish telenovela
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‘NCIS: New Orleans’ Review: Scott Bakula Steers CBS’s Competent Expansion of the Franchise
At this point, it’s hard to get these long-established formulaic shows wrong
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‘Scenes from a Marriage’ Theater Review: Ingmar Bergman, Funnier and Even Bleaker Than Before
Ivo van Hove directs the first must-see event of the 2014-15 theater season.
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‘The Money Shot’ Theater Review: Neil LaBute Delivers a Poison-Pen Note to Hollywood
For anyone familiar with this playwright-director’s work, it will come as no surprise that a very good-looking, buff guy will be outmatched by the lesbian on stage
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‘Scorpion’ Review: CBS’s ‘Fast and the Geniuses’ Drama Should Never Slow Down
The series pilot is big on action, but fails at characterization
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‘Forever’ Review: There’s Nothing Eternal About This ABC Dud
Ioan Gruffudd stars as an immortal medical examiner who uses heightened deductive reasoning and wisdom to solve crimes
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‘Gotham’ Review: Pre-Batman Saga Finds Greatness in Despair and Darkness
Fox pulls back the curtain to reveal what happened in Gotham between the time Bruce Wayne’s parents were murdered and he put on the cape and cowl
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‘Gone Girl’ Review: David Fincher’s Latest Masterwork Mixes Suspense, Cynical Comedy and Razor-Sharp Satire
This adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s bestseller tells a sordid story through layers of illusion and tabloid media frenzy
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James Rocchi -
‘The Good Wife’ Review: Legal Drama Ditches the Grief for Dynamic Storytelling
Julianna Margulies drops the angst — and oppressive sadness — on the CBS series’ Season 6 opener
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‘Reclaim’ Review: Ryan Phillippe and Rachelle Lefevre Are Fooled Twice, and Then Some, in Island Thriller
But heroes do win back some audience goodwill in a suspenseful sequence that’s a literal cliff-hanger
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‘Beyond the Lights’ Review: Gugu Mbatha-Raw Portrays Divadom With Honesty and Compassion
“Belle” star shines as director Gina Prince-Bythewood stays true to the message without ever getting pious or preachy
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‘Madam Secretary’ Review: CBS Drama Struggles to Find Itself
Tea Leoni helms an impressive cast as the secretary of state on the freshman series