‘The Little Hours’ Review: Aubrey Plaza and Alison Brie Are Saucy Sisters in Convent Comedy
This ensemble farce takes a decidedly 21st-century spin on Boccaccio’s 14th-century text
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‘Baby Driver’ Review: Edgar Wright Floors It Before Driving Off a Cliff
The first hour ranks among the greatest action comedies ever made — and then the rest of it happens
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‘Okja’ Review: Bong Joon Ho’s Giant Pig Movie for Netflix Is Messy Good Fun
Once you got past the technical problems at the first Cannes screening, the South Korean director’s film was audacious, frustrating and a real hoot
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‘The Keeping Hours’ Review: Carrie Coon and Lee Pace Grieve, Repetitively
LAFF: Award-winning ghost story from director Karen Moncrieff (“Blue Car”) misses more than it hits
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‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Review: Simian Saga Sewn Up Satisfactorily
This climax to the trilogy of new “Apes” movies earns its quotations of John Ford and the Old Testament
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‘The Big Sick’ Review: Kumail Nanjiani Mostly Hits the Mark in Auto-Bio-Rom-Com
Telling his real-life love story, Nanjiani nails the comedy while Holly Hunter and Ray Romano tackle the dramatic heavy lifting
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‘My Journey Through French Cinema’ Review: Bertrand Tavernier Offers Master Class in the Movies That Shaped Him
Between the fantastic clips and the filmmaker’s personal insights, this engaging, selective dive into auteurs both regarded and neglected is a multi-course feast
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‘The Bad Batch’ Review: Cannibals Battle Skateboarders in Confusing Saga
Horror auteur Ana Lily Amirpour’s eagerly-awaited sophomore effort lacks substance, but the style is admittedly impressive
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‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ Review: Michael Bay’s Latest Hot Mess Is Only Slightly Less Messy
Fifth installment allows Mark Wahlberg to play yet another character who’s both the Chosen One and always right about everything
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‘Annabelle: Creation’ Review: Horror’s Bad Doll Gets a Sinister-Stuffed Origin Story
LAFF: The “Conjuring” spin-off series, in the hands of “Lights Out” director David F. Sandberg, delivers a solid array of haunted house jitters
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‘Nobody Speak’ Review: Money Muzzles the Media
This often-searing documentary examines how two big Trump supporters are aiding and abetting the destruction of the First Amendment
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‘Once Upon a Time in Venice’ Review: Bruce Willis Private-Eye Comedy Dies – Hard
Lame jokes, dumb action, tired stereotypes and a low-boil storyline contribute to another flat genre offering from the erstwhile star
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‘F(l)ag Football’ Review: Gay Players Find a League of Their Own
Out athletes slam head first into traditional notions of gridiron masculinity in this spirited documentary
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’47 Meters Down’ Review: Mandy Moore Battles Sharks, Asphyxiation on the Ocean Floor
This no-frills B-movie effectively nudges any and all sea-based phobias
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‘Maudie’ Review: Sally Hawkins Saves an Otherwise Missed Opportunity
Rather than tell the true story of its fascinating heroine — an arthritic Canadian artist — the film settles for predictable, underwritten romance
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‘All Eyez on Me’ Review: Tupac Shakur Biopic Deserves a Bad Rap
One of hip-hop’s leading figures, played by uncanny lookalike Demetrius Shipp Jr., gets a shallow, shoddy rehashing unworthy of its subject
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‘The Book of Henry’ Review: Colin Trevorrow’s Single Mother Drama Is No Page-Turner
What could have been a compelling family saga starring Naomi Watts, Jaeden Lieberher and Jacob Tremblay is buried under an uneven, often silly thriller
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‘Hampstead’ Review: Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson Ignite Senior Sparks
An American widow and an Irish drifter cross paths in this lightweight but charming romance
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‘Rough Night’ Review: Scarlett Johansson and Friends Have a Funny, Bumpy Ride
Hilarious gags and situations rescue this sloppy comedy from its total lack of structure
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‘Cars 3’ Review: Lightning McQueen Has Mid-Life Crisis as Series Spins Its Wheels
Little kids are the main audience for Pixar’s hit franchise — do they care about aging and obsolescence?
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‘It Comes at Night’ Review: Joel Edgerton Stars in Tense, Mysterious Plague Thriller
Trey Edward Shults’s doomsday nightmare explores the self-sabotage of fear
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‘Beatriz at Dinner’ Review: Salma Hayek Political Satire Oversells Its Message
This immigrant vs. real-estate mogul comedy couldn’t be timelier, but the sparks never fly
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‘Megan Leavey’ Review: Kate Mara Is Semper Fi for Man’s Best Friend
Director Gabriela Cowperthwaite (“Blackfish”) mixes a war story and an uplifting animal tale with efficacy
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‘The Hero’ Review: Sam Elliott Vehicle Doesn’t Do Its Star Justice
Built around Hollywood’s favorite gravelly-voiced cowboy gentleman, this hackneyed, predictable senior drama doesn’t burnish his strengths
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‘My Cousin Rachel’ Review: Rachel Weisz Bewitches Sam Claflin in So-So Period Piece
This Daphne du Maurier adaptation falls somewhere between trashy and classy — but either way, it should be more fun
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‘The Mummy’ Review: Tom Cruise Kicks Off Universal’s ‘Dark Universe’ With Epic Monstrosity
Despite the novelty of a female mummy and Cruise’s presence, this chaotically unappetizing reboot suggests that some franchises should remain dead
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‘Band Aid’ Review: Zoe Lister-Jones and Adam Pally Channel Marital Discord with Three Chords
Charming indie comedy explores an unhappily married couple that forms a band to express their dissatisfaction
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‘Letters From Baghdad’ Review: Tilda Swinton Gorgeously Narrates Fascinating, Flawed Documentary
Pioneering diplomat Gertrude Bell makes a compelling figure, but this portrait could use more context for her achievements
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‘The Incomparable Rose Hartman’ Review: Portrait of the Artist as an Obsessive Observer
Hartman snapped New York celebrities for decades — but was she a skilled photographer, or merely in the right places at the right time?
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‘I, Daniel Blake’ Review: Ken Loach’s Touching Character Study Is Fueled by Righteous Indignation
Standout performances highlight Loach’s occasionally heavy-handed but moving study of working-class struggles
