Reviews
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‘The Salesman’ Review: Iran’s Oscar Entry Unfurls Tense Domestic Drama
Asghar Farhadi (“A Separation”) offers up another unsettling morality play about married actors traumatized by a violent attack
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‘Antarctica: Ice and Sky’ Review: Environmental Doc Overpraises Its Subject
The director of “March of the Penguins” sounds the alarm for global warming but also lavishes his glaciologist subject with too much gushy narration
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‘Split’ Review: M Night Shyamalan’s Mojo Is Back — What a Twist
James McAvoy captivates as a kidnapper with 23 personalities, but the real surprise is that Shyamalan mostly suppresses his instinct to overreach
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‘Monster Trucks’ Review: Kid Adventure Charms More Than It Stalls
The charisma of Lucas Till and Jane Levy — and even the titular creature — outweighs the movie’s moments of tone-deafness
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‘Breakable You’ Palm Springs Review: Bright Ensemble Elevates Neurotic Comedy
Tony Shalhoub, Holly Hunter and Alfred Molina co-star in a roundelay that’s like a more sexually forthright Woody Allen piece
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‘Claire in Motion’ Review: Betsy Brandt Gets Caught in Elliptical Mystery
The “Breaking Bad” co-star plays an academic whose husband disappears in a film that’s heavy on atmosphere but light on plotting
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‘Reset’ Review: Ballet’s Benjamin Millepied Just Wants to Have Fun
The choreographer of the Paris Opera Ballet explores the radical notion that dancers should have enjoy dancing
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‘The Bye Bye Man’ Review: Fear Takes a Hike In Overwrought Teen Flick
Clichés, cheap shocks, and talkiness mar this Freddy Krueger-ish yarn about a summoned spirit who foments delusions
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‘The Autopsy of Jane Doe’ Review: Emile Hirsch Slices Into Slow-Burn Horror
Hirsch and Brian Cox co-star as father-and-son morticians with a horrifying mystery to solve
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‘Toni Erdmann’ Review: Cannes Hit Sees Prankster Father Mortify Uptight Daughter, Out of Love
Marin Ade’s brilliant comedy explores family connections and generational divides
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‘Passengers’ Review: Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt Are Lost in Space
A morally dubious set-up to this glittering starship romance makes for queasy viewing and empty action thrills
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‘Silence’ Review: Martin Scorsese’s Passion Project Is a Fascinating, Flawed Endurance Test
Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver star as Jesuit priests in feudal Japan in a long, evocative and beautifully shot trial of the soul
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‘Assassin’s Creed’ Review: Michael Fassbender Flounders in Another Bad Video-Game Movie
Reteaming with his “Macbeth” co-star (Marion Cotillard) and director, Fassbender’s latest tries and fails to break the game-to-film curse
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‘Barry’ Review: Sharp Indie Focuses on College-Age Obama
The future president’s first year at Columbia makes for a winning portrait of searching and struggling with one’s place in the world
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‘Fences’ Review: Denzel Washington and Viola Davis Take Center Stage
Washington’s third directorial effort is his surest yet, honoring August Wilson’s powerful evocation of an African-American patriarch in 1950s Pittsburgh
