Reviews
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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
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‘They Came Together’ Review: Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Flattened by Ponderous Parody
“Wet Hot American Summer” director David Wain sends up rom-com clichés in a movie that’s so post-modern that it winds up post-funny
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‘Jersey Boys’ Review: Clint Eastwood’s Jukebox Musical Is Nice, Entertaining, Just Not All That Good (Video)
While the nostalgic film doesn’t drag, it also never answers the question, “Why spend 134 minutes on the Frankie Valli episode of ‘Behind the Music’?”
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‘The Rover’ Reviews: Does Robert Pattinson Impress or Bore the Critics?
Critics are mixed on the “Twilight” star’s performance, and the film, itself
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‘Hellion’ Review: Aaron Paul Plays a Drunk Dad in a Familiar Tale of Childhood Strife
This indie drama, featuring Paul and Juliette Lewis, is well-acted and beautifully shot, but it feels like the 401st version of “The 400 Blows” to come out of Sundance
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‘The Rover’ Review: Robert Pattinson and Guy Pearce Both Need a Shower After the Apocalypse
Characters form an unlikely bond in road movie set in a lawless Australian outback sometime in the near future
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‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ Review: Something Gets Lost in the Leap from Romp to Epic
Gorgeous visuals and the addition of a strong new character (voiced by Cate Blanchett) don’t make up for a lackluster villain or the dumbing-down of the flying dragons