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Beyond has fun going where Star Trek has gone before
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 21, 2016 | 7:57pm
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Don’t Think Twice, this improv dramedy is better than all right
By Jesse Hassenger July 21, 2016 | 5:00am
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The scariest thing about Lights Out is what it says about depression
By A.A. Dowd July 21, 2016 | 5:00am
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Collision Course makes the other Ice Age films look like nature docs
By A.A. Dowd July 21, 2016 | 5:00am
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Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie goes down easy, like a bottle of vodka
By Katie Rife July 21, 2016 | 5:00am
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Hillary’s America completes the lunatic political trilogy that 2016 began
By Vadim Rizov July 21, 2016 | 5:00am
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Summertime loses its unpredictable charge as the seasons change
By Mike D'Angelo July 19, 2016 | 5:00am
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For The Plasma is the right kind of awful, if such a thing exists
By Mike D'Angelo July 19, 2016 | 5:00am
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There’s lots of nastiness but not much style in the brutal Outlaws And Angels
By Mike D'Angelo July 14, 2016 | 5:00am
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For a behind-the-scenes documentary, Lucha Mexico doesn’t reveal much
By Katie Rife July 14, 2016 | 5:00am
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Café Society lends a bittersweet glow to Woody Allen’s spotty late period
By A.A. Dowd July 14, 2016 | 5:00am
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Equals offers a stronger Kristen Stewart romance than Twilight
By Jesse Hassenger July 14, 2016 | 5:00am
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I Am Not Your Guru is compelling enough for a glorified Tony Robbins commercial
By Mike D'Angelo July 13, 2016 | 5:00am
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The animated Phantom Boy partners a hurt cop with a super-powered kid
By Noel Murray July 13, 2016 | 5:00am
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The Infiltrator is an undercover drama phonier than its subject
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 12, 2016 | 7:08pm
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Four funny stars power the faithful but not slavish Ghostbusters reboot
By Jesse Hassenger July 11, 2016 | 2:03pm
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The Civil War becomes low-key comedy in Men Go To Battle
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 7, 2016 | 2:20pm
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Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates is a crude imitation, but still funny
By Jesse Hassenger July 7, 2016 | 5:00am
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Captain Fantastic is a road movie not half as brainy as its characters
By A.A. Dowd July 7, 2016 | 5:00am
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The Secret Life Of Pets is cute when it stays on the leash
By Katie Rife July 7, 2016 | 5:00am
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Our Little Sister is a slight but lovely Japanese family drama
By Mike D'Angelo July 7, 2016 | 5:00am
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Fathers And Daughters is almost trashy enough to be fun
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 7, 2016 | 5:00am
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Stephen King’s Cell gets a bargain-bin adaptation
By A.A. Dowd July 7, 2016 | 5:00am
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Zero Days is another cursory info dump from the insanely prolific Alex Gibney
By Mike D'Angelo July 6, 2016 | 5:00am
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Under The Sun reveals the facades of North Korea—and what’s behind them
By Noel Murray July 6, 2016 | 5:00am
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Our Kind Of Traitor brings some style to second-tier le Carré
By Jesse Hassenger June 30, 2016 | 5:00am
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Michel Gondry takes it easy with the laid-back Microbe And Gasoline
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 30, 2016 | 5:00am
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The Purge gets overtly political in Election Year
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 30, 2016 | 5:00am
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There’s nothing original about Carnage Park, but it’s still a fun ride
By Katie Rife June 30, 2016 | 5:00am
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The Legend Of Tarzan doesn’t give its hero enough action
By Jesse Hassenger June 29, 2016 | 1:00pm
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A love of Disney helps an autistic adult understand the world in Life, Animated
By Noel Murray June 29, 2016 | 5:00am
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The Coens’ magnificent noir debut Blood Simple returns again to theaters
By Mike D'Angelo June 29, 2016 | 5:00am
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The Innocents isn’t up to the questions its harrowing true story raises
By Mike D'Angelo June 29, 2016 | 5:00am
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Even Bruce Willis looks lost in confused crime thriller Marauders
By Alex McLevy June 29, 2016 | 5:00am
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Not even Steven Spielberg can make The BFG a good fit for the big screen
By A.A. Dowd June 27, 2016 | 3:14pm
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With Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick shot a brilliant satire like a straight thriller
By Mike D'Angelo June 25, 2016 | 5:00am
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Independence Day becomes an unneeded franchise with Resurgence
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 24, 2016 | 5:48pm
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The gimmicky survival thriller The Shallows is out of its depth
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 23, 2016 | 9:54pm
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Not even McConaughey can make good drama from Free State Of Jones
By Jesse Hassenger June 23, 2016 | 4:44pm
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The Duel tries to enliven a B Western with mysticism (and Woody Harrelson)
By Alex McLevy June 23, 2016 | 2:00pm
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The Fundamentals Of Caring is a quirky trip to a familiar destination
By Katie Rife June 23, 2016 | 1:00pm
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Johnnie To delivers a rollicking thriller with Three
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 23, 2016 | 5:00am
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Swiss Army Man is somehow even crazier than it looks
By A.A. Dowd June 23, 2016 | 5:00am
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Kiwi Conchords alum mounts a charming Hunt For The Wilderpeople
By Mike D'Angelo June 23, 2016 | 5:00am
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Hong Sang-soo perfects his formula with the great Right Now, Wrong Then
By Mike D'Angelo June 23, 2016 | 5:00am
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The Neon Demon is another dreamy L.A. thriller from the director of Drive
By A.A. Dowd June 23, 2016 | 5:00am
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Dawn Wiener is back in Todd Solondz’s scathing anthology Wiener-Dog
By A.A. Dowd June 23, 2016 | 5:00am
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Eat That Question explores Frank Zappa in all of his cranky, cynical glory
By Noel Murray June 21, 2016 | 5:00am
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The Phenom is an intimate, cinematic take on sports-prodigy clichés
By Jesse Hassenger June 21, 2016 | 5:00am
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Nuts! tells the semitrue story of a goat-testicle guru
By Noel Murray June 21, 2016 | 5:00am
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Fantastic Planet looks as strange today as it must have 40 years ago
By Mike D'Angelo June 18, 2016 | 5:00am
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Clown works better as a fake Eli Roth trailer than a real movie
By A.A. Dowd June 17, 2016 | 3:06pm
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A disturbing exposé about people being Tickled on camera
By Mike D'Angelo June 16, 2016 | 5:00am
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The action-comedy Central Intelligence is a dud with a few good laughs
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 16, 2016 | 5:00am
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Cosmos is a fittingly strange swan song for the late Andrzej Żuławski
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 16, 2016 | 5:00am
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The Department Q crime trilogy plays best when binged
By Noel Murray June 16, 2016 | 5:00am
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Raiders! shows how The Greatest Fan Film Ever Made got made
By Mike D'Angelo June 16, 2016 | 5:00am
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Finding Dory loses some magic by leaving the big blue sea
By A.A. Dowd June 14, 2016 | 6:48pm
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Alison Brie fends off crushes and bogus whimsy in No Stranger Than Love
By Jesse Hassenger June 14, 2016 | 5:00am
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Painterly, slow-paced Cannes winner Land And Shade is a promising debut
By Noel Murray June 14, 2016 | 5:00am
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Neither Warren Beatty nor Chris Rock could improve upon Here Comes Mr. Jordan
By Mike D'Angelo June 11, 2016 | 5:00am
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Jean Renoir’s path to greatness began with La Chienne
By Noel Murray June 11, 2016 | 5:00am
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Genius makes the old-fashioned fresh again, at least for awhile
By Alex McLevy June 9, 2016 | 3:38pm
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Strong acting helps compensate for the coming-of-age clichés in King Jack
By Mike D'Angelo June 9, 2016 | 5:00am
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Luis Guzmán gets a disappointing leading role in Puerto Ricans In Paris
By Jesse Hassenger June 9, 2016 | 5:00am
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De Palma is just De Palma talking movies, but that’s plenty fascinating
By A.A. Dowd June 9, 2016 | 5:00am
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Now You See Me 2 doubles down on giddy ludicrousness
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 9, 2016 | 5:00am
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The right director takes the wrong approach for Diary Of A Chambermaid
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 9, 2016 | 5:00am
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There’s nothing immersive (or fun) about this world of Warcraft
By A.A. Dowd June 8, 2016 | 6:30pm
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The Conjuring 2 is best when it sticks to the basics
By Katie Rife June 7, 2016 | 3:00pm
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Venice winner From Afar has all the hallmarks of a flawed first feature
By Mike D'Angelo June 7, 2016 | 5:00am
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Nick Jonas goes cougar hunting in the bland Careful What You Wish For
By Noel Murray June 7, 2016 | 5:00am
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Antonioni’s Le Amiche is an early gem that scarcely resembles his later ones
By Mike D'Angelo June 4, 2016 | 5:00am
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The Thoughts That Once We Had lacks the character of Los Angeles Plays Itself
By A.A. Dowd June 2, 2016 | 3:34pm
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows is Michael Bay for kids
By Jesse Hassenger June 2, 2016 | 3:00pm
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Me Before You is a dry-eyed tearjerker
By Jesse Hassenger June 2, 2016 | 2:33pm
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The Witness puts a personal spin on a true crime and the apathy it inspired
By A.A. Dowd June 2, 2016 | 5:00am
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Popstar gives today’s Top 40 a little Spinal Tap
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 2, 2016 | 5:00am
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Preadolescent anxiety bleeds into eco-horror in the dreamy The Fits
By Noel Murray June 2, 2016 | 5:00am
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Martial-arts pic The Final Master hasn’t nearly enough fighting or grandeur
By Mike D'Angelo June 2, 2016 | 5:00am
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Approaching The Unknown is a monotonous space odyssey
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 2, 2016 | 5:00am
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Time To Choose is the rare hopeful environmentalist documentary
By Noel Murray June 1, 2016 | 5:00am
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Horror, comedy, and mystery energetically mingle in The Wailing
By Benjamin Mercer June 1, 2016 | 5:00am
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What the hell was Bill Plympton thinking with Hitler’s Folly?
By Mike D'Angelo June 1, 2016 | 5:00am
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Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan deserves a better documentary than It’s So Easy
By Alex McLevy June 1, 2016 | 5:00am
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Criterion offers a loose trilogy from Wim Wenders, king of the road movie
By Mike D'Angelo May 28, 2016 | 5:00am
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Adam Sandler and David Spade blow another chance to be funny in The Do-Over
By Jesse Hassenger May 27, 2016 | 4:28pm
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An important filmmaker gets a disposable profile in Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 26, 2016 | 5:00am
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Chevalier sees male bonding as a (literal) dick-measuring contest
By A.A. Dowd May 26, 2016 | 5:00am
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If you can’t guess where The Ones Below is going, you’re probably one of its characters
By Mike D'Angelo May 26, 2016 | 5:00am
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With Holy Hell, a cult survivor shares 22 years of footage from the inside
By A.A. Dowd May 26, 2016 | 5:00am
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Alice Through The Looking Glass should be a lot weirder than it is
By Jesse Hassenger May 24, 2016 | 5:10pm
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An uplifting doc reveals the stranger-than-fiction story of a YouTuber
By Noel Murray May 24, 2016 | 5:00am
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Unlocking The Cage doesn’t make the best case for its animal-rights cause
By Mike D'Angelo May 24, 2016 | 5:00am
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Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 23, 2016 | 5:00am
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Well, The Idol isn’t the worst film made about a singing-competition winner
By Mike D'Angelo May 23, 2016 | 5:00am
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Robert Altman affectionately skewered Hollywood with The Player
By Mike D'Angelo May 21, 2016 | 5:00am
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Pervert Park boldly expresses empathy for America’s most reviled
By A.A. Dowd May 19, 2016 | 2:00pm
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Kaili Blues takes a mysterious journey through memory and time
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 19, 2016 | 1:00pm
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Neighbors 2 is a good comedy with a surprisingly great Zac Efron
By Jesse Hassenger May 19, 2016 | 5:00am
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Maggie’s Plan is the off-brand version of a delightful Greta Gerwig comedy
By A.A. Dowd May 19, 2016 | 5:00am
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A revealing new documentary looks at the rise and fall of Anthony Weiner
By Noel Murray May 19, 2016 | 5:00am
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Shane Black delivers another fun mismatched-buddy riff with The Nice Guys
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 19, 2016 | 5:00am
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The Angry Birds Movie is infuriatingly unfunny
By Jesse Hassenger May 19, 2016 | 5:00am
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Penélope Cruz won’t let cancer bring her down in the maudlin Ma Ma
By Noel Murray May 17, 2016 | 5:00am
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Adrien Brody enlivens the hard-boiled clichés of Manhattan Night
By Adam Nayman May 17, 2016 | 5:00am
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Poltergeist haunts every lame frame of The Darkness
By A.A. Dowd May 13, 2016 | 3:00pm
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Shame it’s not 1998, when Money Monster might have looked relevant
By Jesse Hassenger May 12, 2016 | 3:30pm