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The sci-fi abduction thriller Rupture is as personality-free as its title
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 26, 2017 | 5:00am
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Two new Netflix films reexamine JonBenet Ramsey and Rodney King through performance
By A.A. Dowd April 26, 2017 | 5:00am
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Don’t bother remembering to see the Blair Witch knockoff Phoenix Forgotten
By Mike D'Angelo April 21, 2017 | 10:27pm
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Tramps like this, baby they were born to skip
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 21, 2017 | 7:24pm
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Boxing dramas don’t come more charming than The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Mäki
By A.A. Dowd April 20, 2017 | 9:20pm
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A psycho Katherine Heigl is the only memorable part of Unforgettable
By Katie Rife April 20, 2017 | 6:55pm
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The slapstick, star-powered gunplay of Free Fire is going to kill in dorm rooms
By A.A. Dowd April 20, 2017 | 5:00am
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The director of Hotel Rwanda plows through the Armenian genocide in The Promise
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 20, 2017 | 5:00am
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Bruno Dumont cracks up with the Monty Python-esque Slack Bay
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 20, 2017 | 5:00am
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Sand Castle shows the Iraq War exactly as you’ve seen it before
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 18, 2017 | 5:00am
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Star Wars knockoff Spark: A Space Tail is about as inspired as its dopey title
By Katie Rife April 14, 2017 | 10:35pm
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Adam Sandler is funny again in the good-natured but overlong Sandy Wexler
By Jesse Hassenger April 14, 2017 | 4:42pm
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A Quiet Passion is the witty, morbid biopic Emily Dickinson deserves
By A.A. Dowd April 13, 2017 | 5:00am
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James Gray’s tremendous The Lost City Of Z finds meaning in the unknown
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 13, 2017 | 5:00am
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The listless Fate Of The Furious could have used that Fast
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 12, 2017 | 6:20pm
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The experimental Mimosas traces an offbeat path through the mountains
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 12, 2017 | 5:00am
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My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea almost lives up to its title
By A.A. Dowd April 12, 2017 | 5:00am
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Documentary or fiction, the nonstop parties of All These Sleepless Nights grow tiresome
By Mike D'Angelo April 12, 2017 | 5:00am
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Celebrating golf’s earliest champions, Tommy’s Honour is par for the biopic course
By Jesse Hassenger April 12, 2017 | 5:00am
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Richard Gere hustles his way to the halls of power in Joseph Cedar’s clever Norman
By A.A. Dowd April 11, 2017 | 5:00am
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From the believers behind God’s Not Dead comes a slightly less preachy Case For Christ
By Vadim Rizov April 7, 2017 | 8:10pm
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What is Zach Braff doing behind the camera of the old-dudes comedy Going In Style?
By A.A. Dowd April 6, 2017 | 5:00pm
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The Lost Village isn’t that Smurfing bad, at least for a Smurfs movie
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 6, 2017 | 5:00am
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Gifted is a dumb and handsome movie about smart people
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 6, 2017 | 5:00am
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Romanian master Cristian Mungiu finds more hardship in the homeland with Graduation
By A.A. Dowd April 6, 2017 | 5:00am
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Freaky Friday meets Nicholas Sparks in the record-breaking anime Your Name
By Mike D'Angelo April 5, 2017 | 5:00am
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A naturalistic Schwarzenegger can’t save Aftermath, a drama on autopilot
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 5, 2017 | 5:00am
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Jake Johnson and Joe Swanberg go clean in the gambling drama Win It All
By Mike D'Angelo April 5, 2017 | 5:00am
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Two new Werner Herzog films remind that even great directors can miss the mark
By A.A. Dowd April 5, 2017 | 5:00am
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The restrained but charming Their Finest honors a different kind of war hero
By Jesse Hassenger April 4, 2017 | 5:00am
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Walter Hill’s The Assignment is a pulp fairy tale without a clue
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 4, 2017 | 5:00am
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The real monsters in Anne Hathaway’s Colossal aren’t the ones destroying Seoul
By Katie Rife April 4, 2017 | 5:00am
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The beguiling Ghost In The Shell is more replicant than remake
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 30, 2017 | 10:15pm
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There’s life after death in the twisty, soapy science-fiction indie The Discovery
By A.A. Dowd March 30, 2017 | 5:00am
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The Boss Baby is too big for its britches
By Katie Rife March 30, 2017 | 5:00am
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The cause of The Death Of Louis XIV was boredom
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 30, 2017 | 5:00am
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The Blackcoat’s Daughter rises from release-date purgatory to give everyone the creeps
By A.A. Dowd March 30, 2017 | 5:00am
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Sad timeliness provides The Zookeeper’s Wife with more power than it earns
By Esther Zuckerman March 30, 2017 | 5:00am
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All This Panic lets the world revolve, for once, around some smart teenage girls
By A.A. Dowd March 29, 2017 | 5:00am
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Even by biopic standards, Cézanne Et Moi goes way too heavy on the bio
By Mike D'Angelo March 29, 2017 | 5:00am
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David Lynch: The Art Life is as close a look as the director has ever allowed
By Sean O'Neal March 29, 2017 | 5:00am
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Karl Marx City uncovers a dark mystery from the files of the East German secret police
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 28, 2017 | 5:00am
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Slamma Jamma is a basketball movie by way of Ed Wood
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 24, 2017 | 5:35pm
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The most retro thing about CHIPS is the gay panic
By Katie Rife March 23, 2017 | 6:45pm
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An amusing teen fantasy slowly morphs into a clunky reboot in Power Rangers
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 23, 2017 | 5:00pm
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Life comes at you fast when you’re being hunted by a hostile space octopus
By A.A. Dowd March 23, 2017 | 3:15pm
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A woman’s fetus commands her to kill in pitch-black slasher comedy Prevenge
By Katie Rife March 23, 2017 | 5:00am
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American Anarchist cooks up an unsavory recipe for scolding an interview subject
By Alex McLevy March 23, 2017 | 5:00am
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Dig Two Graves is a low-budget visual treat with a side of high-concept indigestion
By Mike D'Angelo March 22, 2017 | 5:00am
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I Called Him Morgan examines one of jazz’s most macabre stories
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 22, 2017 | 5:00am
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Woody Harrelson softens Daniel Clowes’ misanthropic Wilson for the big screen
By A.A. Dowd March 22, 2017 | 5:00am
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The Devil’s Candy plays its heavy-metal horror riff fast and loud
By Katie Rife March 16, 2017 | 3:35pm
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Song To Song resonates a little louder than Terrence Malick’s last few reveries
By Jesse Hassenger March 16, 2017 | 3:12pm
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Before going clean for Marvel, James Gunn conducted The Belko Experiment
By A.A. Dowd March 16, 2017 | 2:56pm
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The decades-later sequel T2 Trainspotting chooses nostalgia
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 16, 2017 | 5:00am
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Why remake Beauty And The Beast and do nothing new with its tale as old as time?
By A.A. Dowd March 15, 2017 | 10:26pm
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Hirokazu Koreeda’s After The Storm is a breezy portrait of a sore loser
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 15, 2017 | 5:00am
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They should have taken the You’ve Got Mail route with this Lubitsch remake, Frantz
By Mike D'Angelo March 14, 2017 | 5:00am
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A restored Taipei Story offers a fresh chance to discover the genius of Edward Yang
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 14, 2017 | 5:00am
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The Sense Of An Ending withholds endlessly, squandering a terrific Jim Broadbent
By Mike D'Angelo March 9, 2017 | 6:00am
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Kristen Stewart browses for ghosts in Olivier Assayas’ unclassifiable Personal Shopper
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 9, 2017 | 6:00am
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There’s plenty to chew on in the audacious cannibal drama Raw
By Katie Rife March 9, 2017 | 6:00am
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Fiction poisons reality in Actor Martinez, an offbeat portrait of a would-be star
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 8, 2017 | 6:00am
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Emphasis is on the “my” in the unilluminating My Scientology Movie
By A.A. Dowd March 8, 2017 | 6:00am
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King Kong goes to war in the Vietnam-themed monster mash Skull Island
By A.A. Dowd March 7, 2017 | 6:00am
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The incomparable Shirley MacLaine has The Last Word on a generic crowd-pleaser
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 3, 2017 | 7:10pm
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The Shack dares to ask, “What if God were a character actor?”
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 2, 2017 | 8:00pm
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Don’t get trapped in the loop of Before I Fall, a mopey Groundhog Day for teens
By A.A. Dowd March 2, 2017 | 6:00am
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Anne Heche and Sandra Oh beat the living hell out of each other in Catfight
By A.A. Dowd March 2, 2017 | 6:00am
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Table 19 is as exhausting as a real wedding reception
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 2, 2017 | 6:00am
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A dramatic turn feels out of place in the cartoonish cringe comedy Donald Cried
By Mike D'Angelo March 1, 2017 | 6:00am
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Good performances are squandered on Wolves, a flimsy takeoff of The Gambler
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 1, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Wolverine series gets a superb sendoff with the brutal, R-rated Logan
By A.A. Dowd February 28, 2017 | 4:10pm
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Blue Ruin’s Macon Blair makes an uneven, sporadically funny directorial debut
By A.A. Dowd February 25, 2017 | 7:38pm
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The car-chase thriller Collide runs on fumes
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 24, 2017 | 8:20pm
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Rock Dog is a direct-to-streaming cheapie at a movie-ticket price
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 24, 2017 | 6:00am
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They really should have found a way to get some Nirvana songs into As You Are
By A.A. Dowd February 23, 2017 | 9:50pm
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The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés
By Katie Rife February 23, 2017 | 6:00am
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Jordan Peele shifts from comedy to horror with the smart, cutting Get Out
By A.A. Dowd February 23, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Oscar-nominated My Life As A Zucchini is sweet, when it’s not being grim as hell
By Mike D'Angelo February 22, 2017 | 6:00am
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The wannabe historical epic Bitter Harvest bears sappy fruit
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 22, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Great Wall is a stupidly awesome eyeful
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 17, 2017 | 12:10am
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Even with two strong stars, Lovesong is nearly as generic as its title
By A.A. Dowd February 16, 2017 | 1:45pm
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Four female directors bring competing visions to the horror anthology XX
By Katie Rife February 16, 2017 | 6:00am
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Charlie Day and Ice Cube face off in the feeble Fist Fight
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 16, 2017 | 6:00am
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A Cure For Wellness is about as weird as modern Hollywood movies get
By A.A. Dowd February 16, 2017 | 6:00am
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James Franco has directed some bad movies, but none as boring as In Dubious Battle
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 15, 2017 | 6:00am
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Current events enhance the tragic power of immigrant drama From Nowhere
By Mike D'Angelo February 15, 2017 | 6:00am
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Love means ignoring every red flag in the sloppy sequel Fifty Shades Darker
By Katie Rife February 9, 2017 | 4:50pm
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David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike outshine the filmmaking in A United Kingdom
By Jesse Hassenger February 9, 2017 | 6:00am
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Chapter 2 gives John Wick an irresistibly surreal follow-up
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 8, 2017 | 11:35pm
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The Oscar-nominated Land Of Mine uncovers another World War II horror story
By A.A. Dowd February 8, 2017 | 6:00am
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Kedi might look like a glorified cute cat video, but it has plenty to say about people, too
By Mike D'Angelo February 8, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Lego Batman Movie turns Bat mythology into a giant toybox
By Jesse Hassenger February 6, 2017 | 9:55pm
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Samara goes digital in Rings, but this is still just a faded copy of last decade’s scares
By A.A. Dowd February 3, 2017 | 9:21pm
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A Journey To The West sequel suffers without Stephen Chow’s direction
By Jesse Hassenger February 3, 2017 | 6:15pm
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Our hearts can’t handle the industrial-strength schmaltz of The Space Between Us
By A.A. Dowd February 2, 2017 | 8:34pm
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The Little Mermaid gets a grotesque makeover in the horror-musical hybrid The Lure
By Katie Rife February 2, 2017 | 6:00am
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Dark Night is a mysterious elegy for the victims of the Aurora movie-theater shooting
By A.A. Dowd February 2, 2017 | 6:00am
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Sorry War On Everyone, but it’s not the best time for a comedy about giddily corrupt cops
By Mike D'Angelo February 2, 2017 | 6:00am
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Robert De Niro is more of a dirty grandpa than a king of comedy in The Comedian
By Jesse Hassenger February 2, 2017 | 6:00am
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Oklahoma City would have really benefited from the long-form Made In America treatment
By Mike D'Angelo February 1, 2017 | 6:00am
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Strong direction can’t overcome story flaws in supernatural chiller Don’t Knock Twice
By Alex McLevy February 1, 2017 | 6:00am
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A transgender YouTube star creates her own spotlight in This Is Everything
By Noel Murray January 31, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Final Chapter is a weak retread of Resident Evil’s greatest hits
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 28, 2017 | 10:29pm
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The Ring and The Grudge collide in the teen-friendly J-horror flick Sadako Vs. Kayako
By Katie Rife January 27, 2017 | 11:01pm
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Asghar Farhadi puts his spin on Death Wish (sort of) in The Salesman
By Mike D'Angelo January 26, 2017 | 6:00am
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Maybe next time A Dog’s Purpose can be reincarnated as a good movie
By Katie Rife January 26, 2017 | 6:00am