Reviews
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‘7 Days in Entebbe’ Film Review: Docudrama Revisits a Legendary Israeli Rescue
This look at Operation Thunderbolt goes deeper than previous movies but still falls victim to dramatic inertia
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‘Flower’ Film Review: Talented Cast Set Adrift in Disappointing Teen Satire
Zoey Deutch leads a strong ensemble, but Max Winkler’s dark comedy goes from unfocused to sleazy before a tidy ending
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‘Gringo’ Film Review: Mexican Kidnap Comedy Gets Lost on the Road to Nowhere
Despite a cast led by David Oyelowo and Charlize Theron, this fish-out-of-water tale flops all over the place
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‘The Strangers: Prey at Night’ Film Review: Slasher Sequel Is Half a Good Horror Movie
Too many vintage power ballads and not enough masked-killer scares in this follow-up to the 2008 cult fave
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‘Death Wish’ Film Review: Bruce Willis’ Revenge Served Tepid by Eli Roth
Roth’s boringly violent do-over of the Charles Bronson vigilante franchise is too empty-headed and winking to stoke real outrage
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‘Don’t Talk to Irene’ Review: Nerd Girl Has Cheerleader Dreams in Familiar Outcast Comedy
TIFF 2017: Canada’s entry in the misfit-makes-good sweepstakes grates at first, then finds its rhythm
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‘Foxtrot’ Film Review: Israel’s Oscar Entry Doesn’t Dance Around the Complexities of War
A mix of styles and tones makes for a provocative and heartbreaking tale about people in a seemingly never-ending state of crisis
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‘Mute’ Movie Review: Alexander Skarsgard’s Future Noir Makes No Filmmaking Noise
Duncan Jones’ Netflix movie about a voiceless Berliner looking for his girlfriend is a dull, empty exercise in crime, grime and slime
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‘Every Day’ Film Review: Girl Meets Disembodied Soul in Thought-Provoking Teen Romance
Based on David Levithan’s novel, this tale follows a young woman who discovers that love is about what’s on the inside
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‘Annihilation’ Film Review: Natalie Portman Anchors Woolly, Weird Sci-Fi Saga
Alex Garland’s exquisitely disturbing follow-up to “Ex-Machina” cements his status as a thoughtful, nerve-rattling auteur
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All 7 Aardman Animations Features Ranked, From ‘Wallace & Gromit’ to ‘Chicken Run’ (Photos)
How does “Early Man” rank among the British studio’s cartoon classics?
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‘Loveless’ Film Review: Russia’s Oscar Entry Features a Missing Boy, Negligent Parents, and a Fractured Nation
“Leviathan” director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s elegantly bleak domestic drama examines the aftereffects of a bitter marriage
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‘Nostalgia’ Film Review: Jon Hamm Leads All-Star Cast in One-Note Examination of Grief
Mark Pellington’s look at loss couldn’t be more personal, but the results still fall short
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‘The Party’ Film Review: Sally Potter Spins a Bleakly Hilarious Political Farce
Patricia Clarkson, Timothy Spall and Kristin Scott Thomas lead an all-star cast as liberals who dither while the world burns
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‘Golden Exits’ Film Review: Faithless Brooklynites Fall Apart in Alex Ross Perry’s Unfulfilling Indie Drama
Indie all-stars like Chloë Sevigny, Mary-Louise Parker and Jason Schwartzman can’t make this warmed-over-Bergman tale of unhappy mopes come alive
