Reviews
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‘A Dog’s Way Home’ Film Review: Doggie Downer Puts Pooch in Peril
An adorable dog is subjected to danger and horrors that are guaranteed to traumatize young target audience
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‘Glass’ Film Review: M. Night Shyamalan Disappoints With His Super-Trio Sequel
Audiences not fully versed in “Unbreakable” and “Split” will be baffled by this stylish but shallow sequel
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‘The Upside’ Film Review: Kevin Hart Is a Prop for Bryan Cranston’s Growth in Treacly Remake
This remake of “The Intouchables” shares the main flaw of the French original: only the paralyzed white character gets to have layers
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‘Perfect Strangers’ Film Review: Cellphone Secrets Cause Delicious Tension at Dinner
Mexican remake of a much-adapted Italian hit has universal appeal without shying away from cultural specificity
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‘Sgt. Will Gardner’ Film Review: Serious Subject Deserves Smarter Treatment
Writer-director-star Max Martini ineptly tackles the pressing issue of homelessness among veterans
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‘State Like Sleep’ Film Review: Katherine Waterston and Michael Shannon Float Through Enigmatic Neo-Noir
A top-notch ensemble — which also includes Luke Evans and Mary Kay Place — and talented craftspeople are saddled with a limp narrative
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‘Escape Room’ Film Review: Thriller Commits to Gimmick With Style and Energy
A group of strangers navigate a series of deadly tricks and traps in a movie that, if nothing else, does what it says on the box
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‘Destroyer’ Film Review: Nicole Kidman Gets Grim in Karyn Kusama Cop Drama
This gritty procedural earns points for its bleak tone, but prepare to be distracted by Kidman’s deglamorization
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All 8 Adam McKay Movies Ranked Worst to Best, From ‘Anchorman’ to ‘Vice’ (Photos)
How does “Vice” stack up among the comic filmmaker’s output?
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‘On the Basis of Sex’ Film Review: RBG Biopic Celebrates the Political and the Personal
Felicity Jones captures Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s steely gaze in a film that appreciates her family as well as her brilliant legal career
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‘Bumblebee’ Film Review: Without Michael Bay as Director, the Best ‘Transformers’ Yet
Director Travis Knight imbues an ’80s-style “magical friend” movie with coherent action and rich characters (including the robots)
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‘Vice’ Film Review: Adam McKay’s Dick Cheney Biopic Shows the Triumph of Mediocrity
The director’s wacky approach feels like the wrong tack for such a horror show of recent history
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‘Second Act’ Film Review: Jennifer Lopez’s Charm Squandered in Tired Rom-Com
The genre is having a resurgence, not that you could tell from this clichéd collection of worn-out tropes and muddled storytelling
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‘Welcome to Marwen’ Film Review: Robert Zemeckis Shrinks a True Story’s Impact to Doll Size
Steve Carell plays a man working through trauma with action figures in a film that seems to shy away from uncomfortable truths
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‘Bird Box’ Film Review: Sandra Bullock Battles Her Fears in Thoughtful Thriller
Meditations on motherhood and on mankind’s future make Susanne Bier’s latest not your average post-apocalyptic tale
