Reviews
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‘Citizen Koch’ Review: Corporatocracy 101, With a Focus on Governor Scott Walker
You won’t learn much about the politically influential Koch brothers that you haven’t already heard from Rachel Maddow, but this dispassionate advocacy doc connects the dots between the Citizens United decision and governmental attacks on labor unions
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‘Under the Electric Sky’ Review: Visually Stunning Rave Film Wears Out Its Welcome
The Electric Daisy Carnival holds electronic dance music fans in its thrall, but the documentary about it grows tedious by Day Two
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‘Begin Again’ Review: Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo’s Music Biz Fable Has an Irresistible Hook
Writer-director John Carney’s follow-up to “Once” is shamelessly manipulative and disingenuous, but it’s so sweet and lovely that it gets stuck in your head anyway
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‘Snowpiercer’ Reviews: Should Action Fans Consider This Limited Release Over ‘Transformers’ Dinobot Beasts?
According to the vast majority of reviews, absolutely
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‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ Review: Clang Clang Clang Went the Robots
The battling, metallic heroes have never looked better, but Michael Bay’s choppy, dissonant storytelling methods remain as audience-punishing as ever
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‘Snowpiercer’ Review: Chris Evans Thriller Embraces and Rejects Blockbuster Conventions
“The Host” and “Mother” director Bong Joon-Ho pours on the action but misses the heart — even with an eminently watchable Tilda Swinton — in this problematic adventure
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‘Tyrant’ Review: A Middle Eastern Soap With Nothing Radical to Say
If you take it for what it is, the latest from “Homeland” producer is perfectly watchable
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‘Yves Saint Laurent’ Review: Stylish Biopic Could Use Some Tailoring
This look at the designer’s life skims the surface – an admittedly chic, beautiful surface
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‘Third Person’ Review: Liam Neeson Is Tortured, and So Are the Metaphors
Neeson plays a haunted writer trying to reclaim glory in the latest all-star interlocking drama from “Crash” writer-director Paul Haggis
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‘Venus in Fur’ Review: Actress and Director Tussle for Sexual Power in Roman Polanski’s Latest
The stage is the world for mind games between Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathieu Amalric’s characters, in another play-on-film from the émigré filmmaker
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‘Holler If Ya Hear Me’ Theater Review: Tupac Shakur Resists a Broadway Makeover
Todd Kreidler’s book can’t match the power of Shakur’s stark and bracing poetry
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‘Jersey Boys’ Reviews: Does the Musical Drama Fall Flat With Critics?
Critics still swoon over Frankie Valli’s music, but they don’t much care for Clint Eastwood’s focus on the Four Seasons’ personal drama
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‘A Summer’s Tale’ Review: Eric Rohmer’s Sun-Kissed Bonbon Finally Arrives in the U.S.
This charming 1996 comedy of romantic misunderstandings from the late New Wave master remains witty and observant two decades later
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‘Think Like a Man Too’ Review: A Little Comedy, a Little Romance, a Lot of Come-to-Vegas Advertising
With so much time spent plugging Sin City, the sequel barely has time for its dozen or so major characters
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‘Rectify’ Review: A Death Row Drama Slows Down Even More
Sundance’s underrated “Rectify” returns for its second season