Reviews
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‘The Maze Runner’ Review: Dylan O’Brien Trapped in a Labyrinth That Goes Nowhere Interesting
Part “Lord of the Flies” and part “Cabin in the Woods,” this puzzle-box gets less interesting as we learn more about what’s going on
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‘The Theory of Everything’ Review: Eddie Redmayne Gives Body and Soul to a By-the-Numbers Biopic
Toronto 2014: The stars give explosive life to the fascinating, complex life of Stephen Hawking
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‘This Is Where I Leave You’ Review: Jane Fonda, Tina Fey, Jason Bateman Star in Film With No Characters
Even comedy all-stars can’t breathe life into the contrived situations and underwritten neurotics in this family-at-a-funeral dramedy
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‘The Equalizer’ Review: Denzel Washington Serves Up Righteous Fury in Action-Thriller
Adapted from the long-running TV hit, this reunion of the star and director of “Training Day” feels brutally direct after a summer of green-screen shenanigans
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Surprise! Lifetime’s ‘Brittany Murphy Story’ Is a ‘Colossal Mess,’ ‘Atrocious,’ ‘Not Even Remotely Entertaining’
“The less said about the acting, the better,” one critic wrote
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‘The Drop’ Review: Tom Hardy Steals This Sluggish Dennis Lehane Crime Tale
Toronto 2014: After his knockout debut “Bullhead,” Belgian director Michaël R. Roskam’s first venture in U.S. filmmaking throws together a familiar collection of mobsters, lowlifes (including James Gandolfini in his final role) and broken souls
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Critics Give ‘The Identical’ Hell: 10 Takedowns Written Better Than the Fictional, Faith-Based Music Biopic
“There’s a very real possibility we’ll have midnight screenings of this picture for years to come,” Guardian critic Jordan Hoffman wrote in his review
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‘The Identical’ Review: Twin Elvises + Judeo-Christian Messaging = ‘Oogieloves’ For Adults
Don’t miss this bonkers, faith-based rock musical; it’s one of those insane catastrophes you’ll be trying to explain to friends for years
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‘Boardwalk Empire’ Review: Goodbye to a Show With No Sentimentality
One of television’s most understated and underrated shows enters its fifth and final season
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‘Big Brother’ Live Double Eviction: Detonators Finally Blow-Up Each Other
After dominating the summer, the powerful alliance finally made a big move by evicting one of their own
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‘Boxtrolls’ Venice Review: A Charmless Misfire from Laika Studios
The people behind the dark and lovely “Coraline” and “Paranorman” offer up a charmless kiddie movie that’s unappealing both visually and narratively
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Venice Reviews: Al Pacino Achieves Late-Career Greatness in ‘Manglehorn’; Bogdanovich and Levinson, Not So Much
With the performances he’s gotten this year from Pacino, as well as from Nicolas Cage in “Joe,” director David Gordon Green becomes the go-to sponsor in Overactors Anonymous
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‘Big Brother’ Eviction Leads to Guest Spot on ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’
Evicted houseguest surprised to learn the CBS soap is interested in a guest appearance
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‘As Above, So Below’ Review: Deserves a Swift Burial
Shaky camerawork and shakier plotlines collide in this low-budget horror adventure set in the Paris catacombs
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Venice Reviews: Michael Shannon’s Indelible Performance in ’99 Homes,’ Plus ‘Reality,’ ‘The Look of Silence’
Shannon plays a vulture of an Orlando real estate agent, profiting from the misery of the bursting of the housing bubble