Columns
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Not OK, Cupid: How a Math Wizard Hacked Online Dating to Find Love (Podcast)
The latest “Shoot This Now” podcast focuses on how math can help or hurt the search for true love
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‘Samson’ Movie Review: Old Testament Tale Collapses Like a Philistine Temple
This dull Bible story manages to avoid violent content while still celebrating brutal vengeance
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‘La Boda de Valentina’ Film Review: Mexican Rom-Com Political Satire Nearly Hits Its Marks
The love story gets short shrift and the political points turn mushy, but this Pantelion import gets points for trying
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Let’s Call Devin Nunes’ ‘Secret Memo’ What It Is: A Press Release
None of us would have read it if not for all the efforts to keep us from reading it
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’12 Strong’ Film Review: Chris Hemsworth Leads the Charge in a Powerful Afghanistan Story
There’s wit, tension and intelligence in this tale of the first US troops to enter the country after 9/11
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‘Proud Mary’ Film Review: Taraji P. Henson Shoulda Kept Her Good Job in the City
An all-male writing and directing team reduces a lady assassin’s femininity to lipstick and maternal instincts
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‘Molly’s Game’ Film Review: Jessica Chastain’s Poker Face Folds to an Overplayed Script
Aaron Sorkin sets up a fascinating character with the real-life gambling maven Molly Bloom, only to undo her with simplistic overexplanation
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‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’ Film Review: Annette Bening’s Performance Elevates a Tepid Biopic
The fine work of Bening and Jamie Bell only does so much for this sketchy look at film legend Gloria Grahame
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Sasha Alexander, CAA-GBG’s Kendra Bracken-Ferguson Among Speakers at 2018 BE Conference for Millennial Women
Second annual event for millennial women in media, entertainment and technology will be held March 11-12, 2018 in Austin, Texas
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All 7 Alexander Payne Movies Ranked From Worst to Best (Photos)
How does “Downsizing” rank in the celebrated director’s filmography?
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‘Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story’ Film Review: She Was a Glamour Girl and a Scientist
Lamarr’s life as both an iconic star and inventor is a fascinating one, and this telling is mostly up to the task
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‘My Friend Dahmer’ Review: Portrait of a Future Serial Killer Never Comes Into Focus
Disney alum Ross Lynch plays teenage “Jeff” Dahmer in a movie that fails to explicate his later crimes
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‘The Square’ Review: Comedic Moral Fable Shocks, Then Repeats Itself
Director Ruben Ostlund (“Force Majeure”) makes lacerating points about society, but then he keeps making them
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Rae Dawn Chong on Why Harvey Weinstein Scandal Is Only ‘Tip of an Ugly Iceberg’ (Guest Blog)
“My agency had obviously pimped me out to this creep,” actress says of her former reps at CAA
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‘Professor Marston and the Wonder Women’ Review: Diana’s Sexy Roots Are Steamrollered
This look at the triad who created the legendary superheroine blurs the line between biopic and fan-fiction
