Reviews
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‘The Giver’ Review: Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep Can’t Teach This Predictable YA Thriller New Tricks
This adaptation of the Lois Lowry best-seller gets adolescence right and everything else wrong
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‘The Maids’ Theater Review: Cate Blanchett Enters the Camp Pantheon Wearing Alexander McQueen
When the distraught actress looks into the bathroom mirror to reapply her makeup, nobody smears lipstick with the panache of Blanchett
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Critics Shell ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ With Bad Reviews: 10 Takedowns to Consider
“If ever there was a movie that should not have been made, this is that movie,” Seattle Times critic Soren Anderson wrote
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‘The Dog’ Review: Portrait of a Bank Robber an Expertly Crafted Game of Revelations
Smart and provocative, this portrait of the true-life figure behind “Dog Day Afternoon” dazzlingly punctures its subject’s delusions
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‘Step Up All In’ Review: No, Seriously — Shut Up and Dance (Video)
This fifth entry feels like a mixed bag even by the standards of the series, but all is forgiven when the stars stop talking and their feet start flying
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‘Big Brother’ Live Double Eviction Exposes Masterminds as One Houseguest Explodes (Video)
Things are always crazy when “Big Brother” forces the Houseguests to get through a week of strategy and gameplay during a single one-hour live broadcast
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‘Into the Storm’ Review: Mass Tornado Destruction Offers Minor Cinematic Distraction
If you want to see two-dimensional characters buffeted about by larger-than-life weather patterns — well, at least “Sharknado 2” offers some humor
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‘What If’ Review: Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan Jolt Life Back into the Rom-Com
The director of the underappreciated “Goon” gets the best out of a strong ensemble and a smart script while letting Toronto have its turn as a great place to fall in love on-screen
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‘The Expendables 3’ Review: Sylvester Stallone Gums Up the Works with a Dull Junior Auxiliary
The pleasure of these silly shoot-em-ups comes from its over-the-hill ensemble, so why devote so much of the movie to a bunch of forgettable millennials?
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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Review: Michael Bay’s Reboot an Empty Shell
There are a few thrills and a few laughs in this rejiggered, CGI-heavy reimagining of the comic book/TV/movie superstars, but even by kid-movie standards, it’s a hollow experience
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Selena Gomez Breaks Her Own Rotten Tomatoes Record With a Zero for ‘Behaving Badly’
“It’s an unfunny comedy, populated by irredeemable sociopaths,” according to one critic
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‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Reviews: Is Chris Pratt’s Goofy Space Romp Out of This World?
The vast majority of critics approve of Marvel’s new summer epic
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‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ WrapOff Review: ‘It’s Just Sort of Fun and Ridiculous’ (Video)
Does the latest Marvel film deserve all its hype? TheWrap’s Lucas Shaw and Alonso Duralde weigh in
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‘Deepsea Challenge 3D’ Review: James Cameron’s Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
The “Avatar” director plummets to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in this amiable doc that’s basically a big-screen version of a National Geographic special
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‘Get On Up’ Review: Chadwick Boseman Brings the Funk in This Surprisingly Daring James Brown Biopic
Who would have thought that the director behind the cloying “The Help” could turn the story of the Godfather of Soul into something this cliché-defying?