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The Biggest Little Farm is a simplified, PR-friendly look at an agricultural triumph
By Vikram Murthi May 8, 2019 | 4:40pm
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Willem Dafoe is Pasolini in Abel Ferrara’s long-delayed biopic of the murdered artist
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 7, 2019 | 8:30pm
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Shakespeare superfan Kenneth Branagh finally plays the Bard himself in the resonant All Is True
By Mike D'Angelo May 7, 2019 | 5:10pm
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Tolkien gives the Hobbit author his own Shakespeare In Love, minus the laughs
By Jesse Hassenger May 6, 2019 | 4:15pm
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Zac Efron's Ted Bundy movie is an interesting, ambitious misfire
By A.A. Dowd May 4, 2019 | 2:15am
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Seth Rogen woos Charlize Theron in the half-assed political rom-com Long Shot
By A.A. Dowd May 3, 2019 | 6:20pm
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Detective Pikachu offers tomorrow’s nostalgia junk today
By Jesse Hassenger May 3, 2019 | 1:50pm
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Cultural backdrop aside, El Chicano isn’t much more than a shoddy imitation Batman
By Vikram Murthi May 2, 2019 | 10:30pm
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Hero director Zhang Yimou finds beauty in opposites in the visually stunning Shadow
By Katie Rife May 2, 2019 | 10:05pm
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Dennis Quaid is the yuppie from Hell in the giggle-inducing home invasion thriller The Intruder
By Katie Rife May 2, 2019 | 4:00am
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Tell It To The Bees crushes a tender midcentury love story under the weight of melancholy
By Roxana Hadadi May 1, 2019 | 10:30pm
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Olivier Assayas tries his hand at the neurotic highbrow gabfest with Non-Fiction
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 1, 2019 | 8:00pm
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Leave UglyDolls on the shelf
By Jesse Hassenger May 1, 2019 | 1:00pm
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Werner Herzog lends his voice and brand, but little else, to the unilluminating Meeting Gorbachev
By Mike D'Angelo April 30, 2019 | 7:00pm
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Ask Dr. Ruth offers a deeply satisfying portrait of the sex therapist’s life
By Josh Modell April 29, 2019 | 7:00pm
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A rookie ranger faces a terrifying ordeal in the survival horror of Body At Brighton Rock
By Katie Rife April 24, 2019 | 10:15pm
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Ralph Fiennes’ ballet biopic The White Crow can’t find its footing
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 24, 2019 | 8:00pm
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Marvel’s grand Avengers experiment reaches its fun, uneven, sci-fi tearjerker Endgame
By A.A. Dowd April 24, 2019 | 5:45am
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Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern duel over their shared creation in the one-sided biopic JT Leroy
By Mike D'Angelo April 23, 2019 | 7:50pm
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A superb performance from Tessa Thompson anchors the hardscrabble drama of Little Woods
By Katie Rife April 19, 2019 | 11:05pm
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Romeo and Juliet are reborn in Kenya in the vibrant lesbian romance Rafiki
By Katie Rife April 17, 2019 | 10:00pm
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Teen Spirit has plenty of it
By Caroline Siede April 17, 2019 | 6:00pm
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Curse Of La Llorona is more parody than expansion of the Conjuring universe
By Danette Chavez April 17, 2019 | 5:30pm
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Hail Satan? is an insider look at an activist movement born to raise hell
By Katie Rife April 16, 2019 | 10:00pm
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Under The Silver Lake is the perfect demented detective yarn for our paranoid age
By Mike D'Angelo April 16, 2019 | 4:00pm
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Hong Sang-soo’s Grass turns banal people-watching into haunting artistic pursuit
By Lawrence Garcia April 15, 2019 | 8:20pm
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In a month of superhero stories, the overstuffed but well-acted Fast Color goes its own way
By Allison Shoemaker April 15, 2019 | 7:00pm
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To dramatize a real-life miracle, Breakthrough offers thoughts and prayers
By Jesse Hassenger April 15, 2019 | 4:00pm
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A masterful breakthrough performance provides the predictable Dogman some bark and bite
By A.A. Dowd April 12, 2019 | 9:50pm
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After thinks it’s beautiful, that’s what makes it tiresome
By Caroline Siede April 12, 2019 | 2:45pm
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Elisabeth Moss unleashes her inner Courtney Love in the bravely abrasive rock drama Her Smell
By A.A. Dowd April 11, 2019 | 10:15pm
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Neil Marshall's Hellboy is a loud, gory mess only a teenager could love
By Katie Rife April 10, 2019 | 10:00pm
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The gripping war drama Girls Of The Sun prioritizes sisterhood over the full cultural story
By Roxana Hadadi April 10, 2019 | 7:00pm
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The stars of Little make this semi-body-swapped comedy a lot of fun
By Jesse Hassenger April 10, 2019 | 4:00pm
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An hour-long 3D shot is just one beguiling attraction of the movie-drunk Long Day's Journey Into Night
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 10, 2019 | 2:15pm
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Rooney Mara is Mary Magdalene and Joaquin Phoenix is Christ in a holy bore of a biblical drama
By Mike D'Angelo April 9, 2019 | 8:00pm
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However the new Tarantino turns out, it can’t be worse than The Haunting Of Sharon Tate
By Katie Rife April 5, 2019 | 9:30pm
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Pet Sematary should have stayed buried
By A.A. Dowd April 5, 2019 | 2:30am
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The Best Of Enemies is another feel-good movie about those darn racists
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 4, 2019 | 9:05pm
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The moment Aretha Franklin steps on stage, Amazing Grace enters the concert film pantheon
By Vikram Murthi April 4, 2019 | 3:15pm
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Robert Pattinson faces the mysteries of space, fatherhood, and The Fuck Box in the captivating High Life
By A.A. Dowd April 3, 2019 | 8:45pm
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Brie Larson makes her directorial debut with the pastel naïveté of Unicorn Store
By Katie Rife April 3, 2019 | 5:50pm
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Laika thinks bigger and smaller with the charming stop-animation adventure Missing Link
By Jesse Hassenger April 3, 2019 | 5:00am
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For a movie about a famous massacre, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo is very dry
By Mike D'Angelo April 2, 2019 | 6:00pm
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Unplanned is an abortion about abortion
By Vadim Rizov March 29, 2019 | 2:45pm
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Matthew McConaughey gets in touch with his inner Beach Bum in a crazed comedy of carefree living
By A.A. Dowd March 27, 2019 | 5:00pm
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Tribeca winner Diane is an awkward, modest, and subtly dreamlike character study
By Lawrence Garcia March 26, 2019 | 7:00pm
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The Brink gets nothing interesting out of following Steve Bannon around with a camera
By Mike D'Angelo March 26, 2019 | 7:00pm
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Tim Burton’s live-action Dumbo bites the corporate hand that feeds it
By Katie Rife March 26, 2019 | 4:00pm
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Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson are together at last, and regrettably dull, in The Highwaymen
By Jesse Hassenger March 26, 2019 | 12:00pm
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Teen comedies are rarely as beautifully made as the sex-positive Slut In A Good Way
By Jesse Hassenger March 25, 2019 | 3:00pm
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Shazam! zaps an old-fashioned superhero into a blockbuster world
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 23, 2019 | 10:00pm
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Food, family, and history combine in the sweet, thin broth of Ramen Shop
By Katie Rife March 21, 2019 | 2:25pm
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Jordan Peele doubles the horror and doubles the fun in the expertly crafted Us
By A.A. Dowd March 20, 2019 | 11:00pm
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This week, and maybe any other, the terrorist-attack docudrama Hotel Mumbai is a grueling watch
By Mike D'Angelo March 20, 2019 | 8:00pm
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Relaxer might be the grossest movie of the year
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 20, 2019 | 4:00pm
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Mel Gibson is a cop on the edge in the equally queasy and thrilling Dragged Across Concrete
By A.A. Dowd March 20, 2019 | 3:05pm
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The director of the Oscar-winning Son Of Saul dives back into the disturbing past with Sunset
By Mike D'Angelo March 19, 2019 | 4:15pm
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There are few signs of life in the curiously dour alien-occupation drama Captive State
By A.A. Dowd March 15, 2019 | 4:00pm
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With Ash Is Purest White, one of the world’s greatest filmmakers cuts together his greatest hits
By A.A. Dowd March 14, 2019 | 9:30pm
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The Hummingbird Project could have used some of the crazed vision of its computer-age bandits
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 14, 2019 | 7:05pm
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Giallo gets a porno-chic makeover in the kinky, queer, and colorful Knife + Heart
By Katie Rife March 14, 2019 | 3:00pm
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At the animated Wonder Park, the view is lovely but the attractions don’t fit together
By Jesse Hassenger March 14, 2019 | 2:00pm
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The maudlin Five Feet Apart anoints a new pair of winning young stars
By Caroline Siede March 14, 2019 | 1:00pm
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Keira Knightley steps into the dully familiar post-war love triangle of The Aftermath
By Mike D'Angelo March 13, 2019 | 8:00pm
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The Mustang doesn’t buck indie convention—it gives it a surge of new dramatic life
By Allison Shoemaker March 13, 2019 | 1:00pm
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The gripping, numbing Combat Obscura detonates fantasies of military heroism
By Lawrence Garcia March 12, 2019 | 6:20pm
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Nancy Drew is still smart and engaging, but her new movie is a little dull
By Jesse Hassenger March 12, 2019 | 1:00pm
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A mystery is solved and a late master eulogized in the playful and humanistic 3 Faces
By A.A. Dowd March 8, 2019 | 4:00pm
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Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck blunder through a heavy heist in J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier
By Mike D'Angelo March 7, 2019 | 7:00pm
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The surreal Western Two Plains & A Fancy is as funny as it is aggravating
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 7, 2019 | 5:00pm
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Julianne Moore gets her groove back in the delicate midlife romance Gloria Bell
By Katie Rife March 6, 2019 | 10:00pm
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Black Mother is a personal, radical, expansive portrait of Jamaica and its people
By Lawrence Garcia March 6, 2019 | 4:00pm
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Tragedy looms over the epically depressive debut/swan song An Elephant Sitting Still
By Mike D'Angelo March 5, 2019 | 9:00pm
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The dream of the ’90s is alive in the underwhelming Captain Marvel
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 5, 2019 | 2:00pm
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Tyler Perry gives a schlocky, sloppy goodbye to Madea with a Family Funeral
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 1, 2019 | 9:00pm
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Yesterday is today is always in Christian Petzold's brilliantly baffling refugee thriller Transit
By A.A. Dowd March 1, 2019 | 6:45pm
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If the Step Up series took a drug trip to hell, it’d look a lot like the superb lunacy of Climax
By A.A. Dowd February 28, 2019 | 6:00am
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Isabelle Huppert goes high camp in the giddy, demented Greta
By Katie Rife February 27, 2019 | 9:00pm
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The astonishing documentary Apollo 11 shoots the moon
By Noel Murray February 27, 2019 | 4:30pm
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Noir gunplay aside, The Wedding Guest is another scenic travelogue from the director of The Trip
By Vikram Murthi February 26, 2019 | 10:00pm
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The Hole In The Ground is spooky fun, until its big metaphor swallows the horror
By Mike D'Angelo February 26, 2019 | 6:00pm
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The Hidden World brings the How To Train Your Dragon trilogy to a teary but inessential end
By A.A. Dowd February 20, 2019 | 8:30pm
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The Competition looks inside one of the world’s most elite film schools
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 19, 2019 | 8:30pm
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Mark Duplass and Ray Romano share terms of endearment in the moving bromance Paddleton
By Mike D'Angelo February 19, 2019 | 7:00pm
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Fighting With My Family can be pretty stirring, for a glorified WWE commercial
By A.A. Dowd February 13, 2019 | 11:00pm
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Art lovers will swoon over every dazzling inch of Ruben Brandt, Collector
By April Wolfe February 13, 2019 | 5:00pm
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Bare-knuckle drama Donnybrook is pretentious and gratuitous—an unfortunate one-two
By Mike D'Angelo February 13, 2019 | 2:00pm
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Life is a Hotel By The River in a melancholy gem from South Korea’s Hong Sang-soo
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 12, 2019 | 9:30pm
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Birds Of Passage traffics in cliché, wrapping a familiar crime yarn in fascinating cultural fabric
By Mike D'Angelo February 12, 2019 | 8:45pm
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Jessica Rothe makes dying and comedy look easy with the convoluted fun of Happy Death Day 2U
By A.A. Dowd February 12, 2019 | 7:00pm
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Have a love-hate relationship with rom-coms? Then Isn’t It Romantic is for you
By Katie Rife February 12, 2019 | 5:00pm
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The AIDS-era romance Sorry Angel tells a bracing story of love and loss
By Lawrence Garcia February 11, 2019 | 9:30pm
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We’ll never see Steven Soderbergh’s Moneyball, but his High Flying Bird is in the same ballpark
By A.A. Dowd February 7, 2019 | 10:30pm
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What Men Want gender swaps and dumbs down an already dumb Mel Gibson hit
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 7, 2019 | 6:00am
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Lords Of Chaos paints metal’s most infamous band as the poseurs they really were
By Katie Rife February 6, 2019 | 11:45pm
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Creepy-kid horror movie The Prodigy peaks a little too early
By Jesse Hassenger February 6, 2019 | 5:00pm
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Should a movie called The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot be this dour?
By Mike D'Angelo February 5, 2019 | 7:00pm
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Robert Rodriguez teams up with James Cameron to make his best movie in ages, Alita: Battle Angel
By Jesse Hassenger February 1, 2019 | 6:00pm
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Gina Rodriguez is Mexico’s most inexplicably wanted woman in the Miss Bala remake
By Jesse Hassenger January 31, 2019 | 5:30pm
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It’s Mads versus nature in the survival thriller Arctic
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 29, 2019 | 9:00pm
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Piercing is slick, stylish, kinky fun—until it isn’t
By Mike D'Angelo January 29, 2019 | 6:30pm
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Liam Neeson and a snow plow star in Cold Pursuit, this year's cure for the winter-movie blues
By Katie Rife January 29, 2019 | 6:00am
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Jake Gyllenhaal reunites with his Nightcrawler director for toothless horror satire Velvet Buzzsaw
By A.A. Dowd January 29, 2019 | 3:30am
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The Palme d’Or-winning director of Winter Sleep returns with another long, talky drama
By Lawrence Garcia January 28, 2019 | 5:30pm
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The Lego Movie 2 offers a Second Part with more songs, lots of laughs, and a little less resonance
By Jesse Hassenger January 26, 2019 | 10:00pm
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Jean-Luc Godard writes his own elegy in The Image Book
By Josh Cabrita January 24, 2019 | 6:00pm
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You don’t have to be a detective to get ahead of the nutty Matthew McConaughey thriller Serenity
By A.A. Dowd January 24, 2019 | 2:00pm