Columns
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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
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‘When the Game Stands Tall’ Review: More Shapeless — and Pointless — Than a Deflated Football
The stealth faithiness of this awkward football docudrama is just one of several ingredients that don’t play well together
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‘Love is Strange’ Review: John Lithgow and Alfred Molina Play Homeless Husbands in a Classic New York Story
The veteran actors’ spot-on, heartbreaking portrayal of an older couple buffeted about by discrimination and Manhattan’s prohibitive rents highlights a moving film that doesn’t always live up to its promise
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‘Life After Beth’ Review: Aubrey Plaza’s Monster More Appealing Than the Romance
There’s a distinct lack of humanity in this zombie-rom-com, resulting in not enough brains nor heart to chew on
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‘The Giver’ Review: Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep Can’t Teach This Predictable YA Thriller New Tricks
This adaptation of the Lois Lowry best-seller gets adolescence right and everything else wrong
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‘The Dog’ Review: Portrait of a Bank Robber an Expertly Crafted Game of Revelations
Smart and provocative, this portrait of the true-life figure behind “Dog Day Afternoon” dazzlingly punctures its subject’s delusions
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‘The Knick’ Review: Steven Soderbergh’s Vision of New York as Hell
Clive Owen stars as a drug-addicted doctor in 1900 Manhattan
