‘Egg’ Film Review: Christina Hendricks and Alysia Reiner Carry Prickly Pregnancy Comedy
Director Marianna Palka (“Bitch”) continues her fascinating and insightful examination of the phases of adult womanhood
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‘The Kid Who Would Be King’ Film Review: Joe Cornish Turns Arthurian Legend into ’80s-Style Kid Romp
Writer-director of “Attack the Block” pits school kids against an evil sorceress who’s out to grab Excalibur
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‘Replicas’ Film Review: Keanu Reeves’ Robo-Clone Thriller Flirts With Unintentional Laughs
Reeves’ mad doctor tries to bring his family back to life in a ridiculous tale that replaces emotion with shouted technobabble
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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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‘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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‘How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’ Film Review: Third Time’s a Fire-Breathing Charm
Writer-director Dean DeBlois caps his emotionally intelligent adaptation of the Vikings-and-dragons book series with an enjoyable, beautiful story of destiny and freedom
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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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‘Destroyer’ Film Review: Nicole Kidman Is Repulsively Brilliant in Hardcore Action Flick
In this dark drama from director Karyn Kusama, Kidman plays a woman reduced to grit and sinew and resolved to see justice done at any cost
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‘Holmes & Watson’ Film Review: Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly Stagger Through Stultifying Sherlockian Spoof
The game’s a-flat in this tedious and unfunny letdown that feels too much like a comedy first draft
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‘Stan & Ollie’ Film Review: Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly Capture Laurel and Hardy On Stage and Off
This smart showbiz story avoids sentimentality and gets to the heart of a great, difficult partnership
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13 Christmas Movies That Definitely Aren’t for Kids (Photos)
“Anna and the Apocalypse” isn’t the only film that brings an R-rated sensibility to the holiday season
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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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‘All Is True’ Film Review: Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare Biopic Aims High, Falls Flat
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff, particularly with this much talent on both sides of the camera
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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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‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Film Review: Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda Languish in the Shadow of Giants
The stars give their all to a never charmless (but often charm-adjacent) movie that slavishly follows in the original’s footsteps
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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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‘Cold War’ Film Review: Romance in Postwar Europe Is Ravishing and Haunted
Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski returns to Europe in the aftermath of World War II in his first film since the 2013 Oscar winner “Ida”
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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
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‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ Film Review: Peter Jackson’s Groundbreaking Documentary Brings WWI to Vivid Life
Screening in U.S. theaters Dec. 17 and Dec. 24, Jackson uses digital technology to breathe new life into old footage
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‘Capernaum’ Film Review: Lebanon’s Oscar Entry Unflinchingly Examines Childhood Poverty
Director Nadine Labaki unsparingly presents the struggle of abused and abandoned children seeking a better life
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‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Film Review: Barry Jenkins Grapples With James Baldwin’s Prose in Powerful Drama
The film shows glimmers of the artistry of “Moonlight,” but it also has difficulty translating Baldwin’s novel to the big screen
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‘Roma’ Film Review: Alfonso Cuarón’s Intimate Epic Proves Less Is More
This intimate tale of a housekeeper in early-70s Mexico proves the “Gravity” director doesn’t need a sprawling canvas to tell a powerful story
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‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Film Review: Clever Superhero Saga With Animated Arachnids
Audacious and funny, this thrilling cartoon version lets various versions of Spider-Man out to play
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‘The Mule’ Film Review: Clint Eastwood Drives for the Cartel in Thoughtful, Bumpy Crime Tale
Based on a true story about a 90-year-old drug mule, Eastwood’s latest star-director outing is a fascinating exercise in his strengths and faults
