‘Maze Runner: The Death Cure’ Film Review: Action Soars While the Story Bores
Dylan O’Brien and a cadre of underutilized character actors put the final nail in the coffin of post-apocalyptic YA zombies
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‘Hearts Beat Loud’ Film Review: Nick Offerman Plays It Sweet in Father-Daughter Drama
Sundance 2018: Offerman and Kiersey Clemons team up to great effect in this slight but lovely effort from Brett Haley (“The Hero”)
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‘A Futile and Stupid Gesture’ Film Review: National Lampoon Biopic Gently Celebrates Anarchy
Sundance 2018: Will Forte’s sweet turn as troubled genius Doug Kenney splits the difference between his performances in “MacGruber” and “Nebraska”
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‘Ophelia’ Film Review: Daisy Ridley Gives Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroine a Provocative Do-Over
Sundance 2018: The melancholy Dane’s beloved is no wilting flower in this lush, intelligent adaptation of Lisa Klein’s novel
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‘Skate Kitchen’ Film Review: Female Skateboarders Find Freedom on Four Wheels
Sundance 2018: The narrative debut from Crystal Moselle (“The Wolfpack”) shows talented girls supporting each other’s right to grind
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‘White Fang’ Film Review: Jack London Classic Gets Sturdy, Simplistic Animated Retelling
Sundance 2018: Family movie night returns with Oscar-winner Alexandre Espigares’ often beautiful, sometimes corny version of the frontier wolfdog saga
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‘Jane Fonda in Five Acts’ Film Review: Doc Explores the Many Lives of the Actress-Activist
Sundance 2018: As did Fonda’s 2005 memoir, the film shows a woman bouncing back brilliantly from tragedy and regret
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‘Leave No Trace’ Film Review: Debra Granik Returns with Another Subtle Powerhouse Drama
Sundance 2018: The director of “Winter’s Bone” keeps it close to the vest and finds another impressive newcomer in Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie
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‘Wildlife’ Review: Paul Dano’s Directorial Debut Is an Austere Portrait of a Family in Crisis
Sundance 2018: Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal star in Dano’s understated adaptation of a Richard Ford novel
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‘Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind’ Film Review: HBO Doc Remembers Comic Actor With Tough Love
Sundance 2018: Friends, family and peers remember the Oscar-winner with affection and without filters
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‘Lizzie’ Film Review: Chloë Sevigny Makes the Infamous Killer a Rebel With a Cause
Sundance 2018: Sevigny and Kristen Stewart are homicidal lovers in a haunting tale of love and slaughter
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‘Pity’ Film Review: From Greece, a Mordant Comedy About Tragedy
Sundance 2018: Co-writer Efthimis Filippou (“Dogtooth,” “The Lobster”) continues his string of compelling, off-putting bleak farces
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‘The Long Dumb Road’ Film Review: Buddy Comedy Travels Familiar Path, But the Company’s Great
Sundance 2018: Jason Mantzoukas and Tony Revolori make charming travel companions in an indie that lacks interesting women
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‘Three Identical Strangers’ Film Review: Documentary Follows Separated Triplets Down Some Tragic Life Paths
Sundance: The joyous reunion of three brothers eventually gives way to the dark reasons why they were split up in the first place
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‘The Final Year’ Film Review: Obama Doc Reminds Us What a Difference a Few Months Make
Watching intelligent, stable adults work on foreign policy may cause pangs of painful nostalgia
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‘Loveling’ Film Review: Brazilian Drama Examines Class, Family Conflicts
Sundance 2018: Working-class parents send their child off to pro sports and must contemplate what comes next for the family
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‘Mom and Dad’ Film Review: Nicolas Cage Is Crazy for His Kids in Horror-Comedy
Stressed parents start attacking their own children in this midnight-movie slice of suburban hell
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‘Blindspotting’ Film Review: Ambitious Oakland Tale Suffers from Too Many Ideas
Sundance 2018: Carlos López Estrada’s feature directorial debut gets overwhelmed by abrupt shifts in tone and an excess of hot-button issues
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‘Den of Thieves’ Film Review: Heist Caper Steals from ‘Heat,’ Pulls Off the Job
Gerard Butler and Pablo Schreiber face off in a film that apes Michael Mann’s crime classic to surprising success
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‘Phantom Thread’ Film Review: Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Day-Lewis Strike a Pose
The disruptive love between a British designer and his young muse is explored with sophistication and humor in PTA’s latest masterpiece
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‘Forever My Girl’ Film Review: This Southern Romance Is a Country Crock
Will a Nashville superstar rekindle his love for his high-school sweetheart when he discovers they have an adorable child? Three guesses.
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‘Mary and the Witch’s Flower’ Film Review: Studio Ghibli Vets Make Magic
Studio Ponoc teams with director Hiromasa Yonebayashi for an animated fantasy of sweep and drive
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’12 Strong’ Film Review: Chris Hemsworth Leads the Charge in a Powerful Afghanistan Story
There’s wit, tension and intelligence in this tale of the first US troops to enter the country after 9/11
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‘Proud Mary’ Film Review: Taraji P. Henson Shoulda Kept Her Good Job in the City
An all-male writing and directing team reduces a lady assassin’s femininity to lipstick and maternal instincts
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‘My Art’ Film Review: Portrait of the Artist as an Under-Recognized Woman
Writer-director-star Laurie Simmons — Lena Dunham’s artist mom — crafts her own sometimes awkward, sometimes attuned, mildly amusing indie ode to the creating of art
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‘The Commuter’ Film Review: Liam Neeson Train Thriller Ultimately Runs Out of Steam
B-movie master Jaume Collet-Serra (“The Shallows”) frontloads the thrills and sticks too much plot in the caboose
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‘Saturday Church’ Film Review: Character Study of a Young Black LGBT Man Feels Too Tentative
First-time writer-director Damon Cardasis approaches his characters and their world at arm’s length
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‘The Post’ Movie Review: Steven Spielberg Spins a Lean and Mean Fourth Estate Yarn
Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks play the stewards that built a vital, confrontational Washington Post
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‘Paddington 2’ Film Review: Get Ready for More Teddy in This Delightful Romp
This is the rare sequel that’s even better than its predecessor
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‘Molly’s Game’ Film Review: Jessica Chastain’s Poker Face Folds to an Overplayed Script
Aaron Sorkin sets up a fascinating character with the real-life gambling maven Molly Bloom, only to undo her with simplistic overexplanation
