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Anne Hathaway takes a musical tour of a gentrified Brooklyn in Song One
By Jesse Hassenger January 22, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Son Of A Gun starts as a cool prison film, then devolves into generic schlock
By Mike D'Angelo January 22, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Lucasfilm’s Strange Magic is the Moulin Rouge of animated features
By Jesse Hassenger January 22, 2015 | 6:00am
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Al Pacino is the faded star of a witless Philip Roth adaptation, The Humbling
By A.A. Dowd January 22, 2015 | 6:00am
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The Duke Of Burgundy is a beautiful love story disguised as stylish smut
By Mike D'Angelo January 22, 2015 | 6:00am
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The Boy Next Door offers Jennifer Lopez an unabashedly trashy thriller
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 22, 2015 | 6:00am
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Cake is Jennifer Aniston’s half-baked attempt to be taken seriously
By Jenni Miller January 22, 2015 | 6:00am
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The Palm Beach Story is among the most pragmatic of screwball comedies
By Mike D'Angelo January 21, 2015 | 6:00am
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Sarah Michelle Gellar vehicle Veronika Decides To Die should have stayed dead
By Keith Uhlich January 20, 2015 | 6:00am
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Spare Parts rushes its novel spin on inspirational-teacher conventions
By Jesse Hassenger January 16, 2015 | 6:25pm
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The Wedding Ringer is a 100-minute gay joke masquerading as a buddy comedy
By A.A. Dowd January 15, 2015 | 8:09pm
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The dark indie drama Medeas twists the Greek myth for which it’s named
By Kiva Reardon January 15, 2015 | 4:00pm
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Eddie Marsan is a cardboard saint in the sentimental Still Life
By Benjamin Mercer January 15, 2015 | 3:00pm
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The bargain-bin sci-fi thriller Vice proves bad doesn’t have to be boring
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 15, 2015 | 6:00am
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Appropriate Behavior is a flawed but promising debut from a new Girls co-star
By Jesse Hassenger January 15, 2015 | 6:00am
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Elizabeth Banks broods hard in the tiresome drama Little Accidents
By Keith Uhlich January 15, 2015 | 6:00am
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Michael Mann returns with the rough-and-tumble Blackhat
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 15, 2015 | 6:00am
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There’s a little too much Crash in the Italian award-winner Human Capital
By Mike D'Angelo January 14, 2015 | 6:00am
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With Match, playwright Stephen Belber recycles elements from his earlier Tape
By Mike D'Angelo January 14, 2015 | 6:00am
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Fassbinder transforms his own stage play, The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant
By Mike D'Angelo January 14, 2015 | 6:00am
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Paddington is a sweet, playful take on a children’s classic
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 13, 2015 | 6:40pm
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The trilogy-capping Taken 3 is action-movie slop
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 9, 2015 | 6:15pm
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When Evening Falls On Bucharest, Or Metabolism is as unusual as its title
By Mike D'Angelo January 8, 2015 | 6:00am
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Predestination gives a famous time-travel story the Chris Nolan treatment
By A.A. Dowd January 8, 2015 | 6:00am
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Beloved Sisters is a period romance paced like a procedural
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 8, 2015 | 6:00am
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The Sword Of Doom lives up to its pulpy American title
By Mike D'Angelo January 7, 2015 | 6:00am
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A zombie franchise returns to form with [REC] 4: Apocalypse
By Katie Rife January 2, 2015 | 6:03pm
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Tsui Hark transforms a Maoist chestnut into The Taking Of Tiger Mountain 3D
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 2, 2015 | 6:00pm
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Angel Of Death treads the same haunted ground as the first Woman In Black
By Jesse Hassenger January 2, 2015 | 6:00pm
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J.C. Chandor takes another left turn with the gritty A Most Violent Year
By Mike D'Angelo December 29, 2014 | 6:00am
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The Interview is a triumph of free speech, not of sharp satire
By Ben Kenigsberg December 24, 2014 | 4:45pm
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Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken is an unintentionally campy POW biopic
By Keith Uhlich December 23, 2014 | 6:00am
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Selma is at once a peek into the past and a snapshot of the present
By A.A. Dowd December 23, 2014 | 6:00am
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The biopic Big Eyes adds another misfit to Tim Burton’s gallery
By A.A. Dowd December 23, 2014 | 6:00am
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Marion Cotillard is a weekend warrior in the beautiful Two Days, One Night
By A.A. Dowd December 23, 2014 | 6:00am
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Into The Woods is a Rob Marshall musical that’s not ashamed to be a musical
By Jesse Hassenger December 23, 2014 | 6:00am
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Fighting city hall has dire consequences in the Russian downer Leviathan
By Mike D'Angelo December 23, 2014 | 6:00am
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Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper is a war movie that’s tensest on the home front
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 23, 2014 | 6:00am
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This year’s Palme D’Or winner, Winter Sleep, may be too much of a good thing
By Mike D'Angelo December 18, 2014 | 6:00am
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The creepy Night At The Museum series comes to a close with Secret Of The Tomb
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 18, 2014 | 6:00am
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Mark Wahlberg’s remake of The Gambler isn’t really about gambling
By A.A. Dowd December 18, 2014 | 6:00am
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Timothy Spall grunts his way to greatness as the famous subject of Mr. Turner
By A.A. Dowd December 18, 2014 | 6:00am
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Love is nice, but money is better in the shiny, hollow Annie
By Katie Rife December 18, 2014 | 6:00am
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Despite risible subject matter, The Night Porter is more tedious than vile
By Mike D'Angelo December 17, 2014 | 6:00am
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The Battle Of The Five Armies brings the Hobbit trilogy to a plodding finish
By A.A. Dowd December 16, 2014 | 6:00am
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Two French greats play sparring spouses in the poignant If You Don’t, I Will
By Nick Schager December 16, 2014 | 6:00am
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Goodbye To All That is a poor showcase of Paul Schneider’s Southern charm
By Jesse Hassenger December 16, 2014 | 6:00am
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Atom Egoyan can’t art up the trashy genre tropes of The Captive
By A.A. Dowd December 11, 2014 | 6:00am
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P.T. Anderson goes back to the ’70s—and noir themes—with Inherent Vice
By Ben Kenigsberg December 11, 2014 | 6:00am
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Xavier Dolan delivers the year’s most hyperactive film, Mommy
By Mike D'Angelo December 11, 2014 | 6:00am
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Christian Bale leads a slog through the Old Testament in Ridley Scott’s Exodus
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 11, 2014 | 6:00am
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Tip Top is an odd blend of bedroom brawls, racial tension, and murder mystery
By Mike D'Angelo December 11, 2014 | 6:00am
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The Color Of Time finds James Franco’s ambitions again eclipsing his results
By Jesse Hassenger December 11, 2014 | 6:00am
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Chris Rock’s showbiz rom-com Top Five is disorganized but often charming
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 11, 2014 | 6:00am
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Julianne Moore develops a mysterious malady in Todd Haynes’ masterful Safe
By Mike D'Angelo December 10, 2014 | 6:00am
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Magician is basically a fantastic clip-show tribute to Orson Welles
By Keith Uhlich December 9, 2014 | 6:00am
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The Pyramid isn’t a found-footage fright flick, but it sometimes acts like one
By Jesse Hassenger December 5, 2014 | 9:00pm
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Disowned by its director and stars, Dying Of The Light is a thriller without thrills
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 4, 2014 | 3:45pm
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Concerning Violence brings a revolutionary’s words to harrowing life
By Keith Uhlich December 4, 2014 | 6:00am
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A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness is black metal for the big screen
By A.A. Dowd December 4, 2014 | 6:00am
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The awful Panic 5 Bravo punctuates its crass action with bullshit moralism
By Mike D'Angelo December 4, 2014 | 6:00am
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Julianne Moore faces an Alzheimer’s diagnosis in the nuanced Still Alice
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 4, 2014 | 6:00am
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Gillian Jacobs and Leighton Meester play platonic Life Partners drifting apart
By Jesse Hassenger December 4, 2014 | 6:00am
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Volunteer doctors combat a broken healthcare system in Remote Area Medical
By Nick Schager December 4, 2014 | 6:00am
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Wild puts Reese Witherspoon on an epic walk, and the audience in her shoes
By Mike D'Angelo December 4, 2014 | 6:00am
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Criterion collects the joyful, humane documentaries of Les Blank
By Mike D'Angelo December 3, 2014 | 6:00am
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Friendship wanes in the Israeli military office comedy Zero Motivation
By Vadim Rizov December 2, 2014 | 7:45pm
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Eric Rohmer’s late masterpiece A Summer’s Tale makes its way into U.S. homes
By David Ehrlich November 26, 2014 | 6:00am
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The Immortalists makes light of scientists pursuing the “cure” to death
By Keith Uhlich November 25, 2014 | 6:00am
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Before I Disappear shows the strain of having been expanded from a short
By Mike D'Angelo November 25, 2014 | 6:00am
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Penguins Of Madagascar is DreamWorks Animation at its most amusingly energetic
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 25, 2014 | 6:00am
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The Babadook is metaphorically rich—and pretty damn scary, too
By A.A. Dowd November 25, 2014 | 6:00am
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The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness looks behind the curtain of Studio Ghibli
By David Ehrlich November 25, 2014 | 6:00am
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Horrible Bosses 2 is less fun to watch than it probably was to make
By Jesse Hassenger November 25, 2014 | 6:00am
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Benedict Cumberbatch breaks code in the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game
By Mike D'Angelo November 25, 2014 | 6:00am
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From the duo behind Grave Encounters comes the thoroughly generic Extraterrestrial
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
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As its clunky title suggests, Mockingjay—Part 1 is half a Hunger Games film
By A.A. Dowd November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
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The V/H/S franchise goes Viral—and down the tubes
By A.A. Dowd November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
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Practical effects can’t save the absurd-yet-boring Late Phases
By Katie Rife November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
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The Homestretch grants a voice to Chicago’s teenage derelicts
By Keith Uhlich November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
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The Circle explores gay history through the story of one famous couple
By Vadim Rizov November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
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Reach Me is more L.A. ensemble junk from the maker of 2 Days In The Valley
By Jesse Hassenger November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
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The vampire fantasy A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is an interesting bore
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 20, 2014 | 6:00am
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Every romcom of the last 80 years owes something to It Happened One Night
By Mike D'Angelo November 19, 2014 | 6:00am
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Pulp is less a documentary and more a love letter to Sheffield
By Laura M. Browning November 18, 2014 | 6:10pm
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The coming-of-age story Bad Hair is all dispiriting realism, no catharsis
By Mike D'Angelo November 18, 2014 | 6:00am
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Happy Valley looks at the Penn State scandal through the lens of community
By Mike D'Angelo November 18, 2014 | 6:00am
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Hong Kong master Johnnie To missteps with Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 14, 2014 | 8:03pm
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Saving Christmas is the solemn duty of this inept Kirk Cameron vehicle
By Jesse Hassenger November 14, 2014 | 4:35pm
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The desperate Dumb And Dumber To recycles the jokes of its predecessor
By A.A. Dowd November 13, 2014 | 7:45pm
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Butter On The Latch and Thou Wast Mild And Lovely make an eerie double feature
By Jenni Miller November 13, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Penance tells 5 unsettling modern-day fairy tales
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 13, 2014 | 4:05pm
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Bad Turn Worse namechecks Jim Thompson, but the comparison does it no favors
By Mike D'Angelo November 13, 2014 | 4:00pm
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Katie Holmes embarks on a Death Wish rampage in the vile Miss Meadows
By Mike D'Angelo November 13, 2014 | 3:00pm
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The speculative Foxcatcher turns true crime into unconvincing Greek tragedy
By A.A. Dowd November 13, 2014 | 6:00am
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Red Army tells the other side of Miracle’s underdog sports story
By David Ehrlich November 13, 2014 | 6:00am
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Beyond The Lights is a charming romance from the director of Love & Basketball
By Keith Uhlich November 13, 2014 | 6:00am
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Tommy Lee Jones directs and stars in a deliberately crooked oater, The Homesman
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 13, 2014 | 6:00am
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Jon Stewart makes a mushy, earnest directing debut with Rosewater
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 13, 2014 | 6:00am
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A Merry Friggin’ Christmas offers only the gift of seeing Robin Williams again
By Jesse Hassenger November 7, 2014 | 6:00pm
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Lovely animation and design elevate the derivative Big Hero 6
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 7, 2014 | 4:55pm
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The Way He Looks sacrifices the woods for the trees
By Keith Uhlich November 6, 2014 | 5:00pm
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The Better Angels is too easily mistaken for Malick
By Mike D'Angelo November 6, 2014 | 4:00pm
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Why Don’t You Play In Hell? invites you to a madcap cinematic playground
By Nick Schager November 6, 2014 | 3:00pm
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21 Years is a nice, superfluous acknowledgment of Richard Linklater’s career
By Jesse Hassenger November 6, 2014 | 2:00pm
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Ordinary life takes center stage in the smart, sensitive documentary Actress
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 6, 2014 | 6:00am
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Eddie Redmayne plays Stephen Hawking in the neutered biopic The Theory Of Everything
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 6, 2014 | 6:00am
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Jessabelle starts out scary but quickly gets waterlogged
By Katie Rife November 6, 2014 | 6:00am