Reviews
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‘G.B.F.’ Review: Gay Teens Become Hot Accessories in This Sweet-Natured Comedy
This witty tale of high school mean girls fighting over the school’s only “gay best friend” charms, but it could have used more bite
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‘Ride Along’ Review: Kevin Hart and Ice Cube Can Overcome Bad Guys, But Not a Bad Script (Video)
This buddy-cop retread wastes two talented performers on substandard material
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‘Beautiful’ Theater Review: The New Carole King Musical Has the Guts to Play It Nice
Here is arguably the nicest, most normal, least eccentric personality ever to be at the center of a Broadway musical. “Beautiful” is the show for theatergoers who don’t like drama queens. Is there such an animal?
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‘The Nut Job’ Review: Will Arnett and Maya Rudolph Can’t Save This Cluster Bomb of a Kid Flick
This animated comedy is schizophrenic and frenetic — but at least it looks good
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5 Things to Know About Matt LeBlanc’s ‘Episodes’ This Season
“Pucks,” the struggling show within a show in “Episodes,” faces even more challenges in Season 3
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‘Girls’ Review: Lena Dunham Plumbs Awkward Depths in Funny, Messy New Season
The show continues to revel in uncomfortable moments in upcoming episodes
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‘True Detective’ Review: Scary Monster, Scarier Men
Broken detectives played by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson try to solve a brutal crime
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‘The Legend Of Hercules’ Review: Kellan Lutz’s Beefcake Saga is One Messy Myth (Video)
This retelling of Hercules’ mythology doesn’t feature 12 labors, but 99 — one for each minute the audience has to sit through
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‘Spoils of Babylon’ Review: Will Ferrell and Friends Get Real Stupid
Tim Robbins, Kristen Wiig, Tobey Maguire devote their talents to absurdity
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‘Chicago P.D.’ Review: Second City to None
Dick Wolf expands Midwest empire with a very watchable cop drama
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‘Intelligence’ Review: Google Glassy Eyed With Josh Holloway
The former “Lost” star is too cool for CBS’s dull drama
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‘Downton Abbey’ Review: Classy Costume Sudser Is Starting to Show Its Age
Julian Fellowes’ upper-crust soap opera remains as compulsively watchable as ever despite occasional lapses into melodrama
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‘Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones’ Review: How Do You Say ‘Shaky-Cam’ in Spanish?
This fifth chapter of the horror franchise throws some new curves, but is as by-the-numbers as a time code
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‘Interior. Leather Bar.’ Review: James Franco Peers Behind Al Pacino’s ‘Cruising’ Mask
Franco and collaborator Travis Mathews use the controversial 1980 thriller as a prism for examining explicit gay imagery and an actor’s journey
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‘Justin Bieber’s Believe’ Review: Portrait of an Artist Who’s No Longer a ‘Baby’
Growing pains and the price of fame take center stage in this tour-documentary follow-up to “Never Say Never”