Columns
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‘Once Upon a Time’ Premiere Review: Fairytale Drama Is ‘Frozen’ in More Ways Than One
ABC series borrows from Disney’s latest hit while consistenlty going back to old tropes season after season
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‘Good People’ Review: What’s James Franco Doing in this Ultra-Conventional Thriller?
Workaholic Franco delivers a forgettable performance alongside Kate Hudson and Tom WIlkinson in a B-movie far beneath his usual artistic or commercial ambitions
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‘Transparent’ Review: Jeffrey Tambor Will Break Your Heart in Amazon’s Binge-Worthy Show
Tambor’s kids find out about their father’s secret female identity in Jill Soloway’s new Amazon show
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‘Hector and the Search for Happiness’ Review: Simon Pegg Woefully Miscast in This Imbecilic Waste of Time
Rosamund Pike and Christopher Plummer accompany Pegg as he globe-trots
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‘How to Get Away With Murder’ Review: Split Verdict on Shonda Rhimes Legal Drama
Students are nowhere as powerful as their teacher, played by Viola Davis, on ABC’s new drama
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‘The Mysteries of Laura’ Review: Debra Messing’s Mom Cop Breezes Past Tired Dialogue
Plotting is extremely broad in NBC’s hybrid show, based on a Spanish telenovela
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‘Scorpion’ Review: CBS’s ‘Fast and the Geniuses’ Drama Should Never Slow Down
The series pilot is big on action, but fails at characterization
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‘Red Band Society’ Review: Prognosis Is Good, Though It Could Take More Risks
The Fox hospital series needs more surprises, but it’s worthy of an examination
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‘A Walk Among the Tombstones’ Review: Liam Neeson Grimly Satisfies in this Grisly Crime Saga
As the last good man in a pre-apocalyptic NYC, Neeson evinces just enough hauntedness to make this game of cat and evil mice feel like it matters; Dan Stevens and Brian “Astro” Bradley co-star
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The New ‘View’ Premiere Review: Rosie O’Donnell, New Co-Hosts Earned Their Applause
Skeptics should expect to be won over by the intelligence, experience and chemistry on the ABC talker’s new panel
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‘No Good Deed’ Review: Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson Don’t Embarrass Themselves or Their Studio in a Perfectly Serviceable Thriller
Henson makes for a sexy and tragic protagonist in this women-empowerment thriller about domestic violence, but Elba plays a troubling stereotype in this film that Screen Gems decided at the last minute not to screen for critics
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‘The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them’ Review: Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy Fall Ploddingly Out of Love
Chastain has much better chemistry with co-stars Viola Davis and Isabelle Huppert than with her on-screen husband (played by McAvoy), while the thrown-together love story veers between life-affirming artificiality and self-serious melodrama
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‘Dolphin Tale 2’ Review: Harry Connick Swims Into Family-Friendly, Post-‘Blackfish’ Waters
Co-starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, this conscientious sequel nears the Platonic ideal of edutainment
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A Goodbye Message: Please Click Good Things
From saving our girls to Nicki Minaj, we get the internet we build for ourselves
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‘Life of Crime’ Review: Jennifer Aniston Dark Comedy Is Pure Escapism
This Elmore Leonard adaptation is late-summer piffle, but Aniston and a sharp supporting cast make it an exceedingly entertaining one
