Reviews
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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
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‘Rosewater’ Review: Jon Stewart Gets Earnest With a Real-Life Story of Middle East Brutality
Stewart took time off from “The Daily Show” to direct a film that is smart and affecting, but not quite as sharp as you might expect
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‘Birdman’ Venice Review: Michael Keaton as an Actor With Caped-Crusader Issues
Art imitating life provides just some of the fun — and the smarts — of this jazzy, unpredictable character piece
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‘Life of Crime’ Review: Jennifer Aniston Dark Comedy Is Pure Escapism
This Elmore Leonard adaptation is late-summer piffle, but Aniston and a sharp supporting cast make it an exceedingly entertaining one
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‘Sin City: A Dame to Kill For’ Reviews: Was This Sequel Worth the Wait or 9 Years Too Late?
Critics can’t complain about the strong visual palette co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller once again offer their audience, but gripe about the “dull” stories unfolding on screen
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‘When the Game Stands Tall’ Review: More Shapeless — and Pointless — Than a Deflated Football
The stealth faithiness of this awkward football docudrama is just one of several ingredients that don’t play well together
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‘Sin City: A Dame to Kill For’ Review: Eva Green Steals This Juvenile Film Noir
How can a movie with this much art direction and this many decapitations be so very dull and uninvolving?
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‘Love is Strange’ Review: John Lithgow and Alfred Molina Play Homeless Husbands in a Classic New York Story
The veteran actors’ spot-on, heartbreaking portrayal of an older couple buffeted about by discrimination and Manhattan’s prohibitive rents highlights a moving film that doesn’t always live up to its promise
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‘If I Stay’ Review: Chloë Grace Moretz Livens Up This Terminal-Teen Tearjerker (Video)
The saga of a comatose girl at the border between life and death makes some missteps, but Moretz sells the character and her romance with Jamie Blackley’s young rocker