Reviews
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‘The Strain’ Review: Del Toro Makes Reinventing Vampires Look Easy
FX series reimagines vampirism while paying homage to myths
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‘Masters of Sex’ Review: Lizzy Caplan and Michael Sheen Go Deeper in Season 2
Showtime’s drama about pioneering sex researchers Bill Masters and Virginia Johnson gets off to a racy, and emotionally rich, start
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‘Land Ho!’ Review: A Delicious and Potent Old-Fashioned, Over Ice(land)
Earl Lynn Nelson and Paul Eenhoorn play mismatched travel buddies grappling with retirement in this uplifting road trip movie
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‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ Reviews: Does This Sequel ‘Rise’ Above Its Predecessor?
Yes — and no — depending on what critic you ask, but the majority seem to agree on one thing: it’s still pretty good
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‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ Review: Compared to Its Predecessor, This Is a Second Banana
Solidly entertaining adventure film features another great Andy Serkis motion-capture performance, but it lacks the big ideas of the 1968 and 2011 versions
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‘Boyhood’ Review: In Richard Linklater’s Intimate Epic, Time Keeps on Slippin’ Into the Future (Video)
The cast (including Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette) ages in real time in this stirring look at a family’s perseverance through the day-to-day business of getting older and growing up
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‘Planes: Fire & Rescue’ Review: Disney’s Vehicular Franchise Coasts, Agreeably, on Autopilot
Like the heroes voiced by Dane Cook and Ed Harris, this by-the-numbers movie gets in, does the job, and takes off with a minimum of fuss
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‘Life Itself’ Review: Roger Ebert Doc Rates a Thumbs-Up (Video)
“Hoop Dreams” director Steve James takes us on a rollercoaster ride of the legendary film critic’s personal and professional highs and lows
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‘Tammy’ Reviews: Melissa McCarthy Swings for Another Hilarious Comedy – But Does She Miss?
Susan Sarandon co-stars in the comedy about a fired fast food employee who takes a road trip with her grandmother
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‘Deliver Us From Evil’ Review: Eric Bana, Joel McHale, Olivia Munn and Cast Wasted on Just Another Exorcism Movie
Terrific performances and spooky atmospherics only stave off the predictable conclusion of a priest yelling at a guy who’s bleeding out of every orifice
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‘Tammy’ Review: Melissa McCarthy’s Character Comedy, Minus Comedy and a Character
The talented star of “Bridesmaids” has played characters in five-minute Groundlings sketches that felt more thought-out and well-written
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‘America’ Review: Another Dinesh D’Souza Doc That’s Easy to Mock
The deceptive evidence and straw-man arguments of this conservative “filmmaker” would go down easier if the actual filmmaking wasn’t so inept
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‘The Leftovers’ Reviews: Is Damon Lindelof’s New HBO Show Worth the Premium Cost or Bound to Get ‘Lost’?
The majority of critics think the show, rooted in religion and loss, is off to a promising start
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‘The Leftovers’ Review: Damon Lindelof Explores the Great Spiritual Unknown in Moody HBO Series
Justin Theroux anchors the melancholy HBO series exploring the aftermath of a mass global disappearance
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Critics Bash ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’: 10 Brutal Takedowns More Entertaining Than the Movie
“Hello, police? I’d like to report an assault,” Seattle Times critic Soren Anderson wrote