Reviews
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‘Pride’ Review: Gay Activists, Striking Miners Unite to Fight the Power
Though slightly overstuffed, this British comedy-drama has the stirring power of a protest anthem — and it’s funny, too
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‘Gone Girl’ Reviews: Does David Fincher’s Thriller Make Ben Affleck a Critically Acclaimed Killer?
The film doesn’t open until Oct. 3 but a flood of early reviews is heightening anticipation
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‘Kill the Messenger’ Review: Jeremy Renner’s Muckraking Feels Half-Baked in This Biopic
Suspense and intrigue are replaced with sanctimony and cliché in this unsatisfying portrait of a reporter
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‘Good People’ Review: What’s James Franco Doing in this Ultra-Conventional Thriller?
Workaholic Franco delivers a forgettable performance alongside Kate Hudson and Tom WIlkinson in a B-movie far beneath his usual artistic or commercial ambitions
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‘Transparent’ Review: Jeffrey Tambor Will Break Your Heart in Amazon’s Binge-Worthy Show
Tambor’s kids find out about their father’s secret female identity in Jill Soloway’s new Amazon show
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‘The Equalizer’ Reviews: Critics Divided on Denzel Washington’s New Action Film
Some experts call the film “hilariously violent,” while others claim it’s “a bore”
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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