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B
Musa Hadid, the mayor of the Palestinian city of Ramallah (pop. 40,000), is not an imposing guy. Accoutered in a…
4h
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C-
Imagine an all-powerful artificial intelligence with full access to the world’s entire digital grid and archives,…
7h
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D+
Hollywood and Broadway have spent decades locked in a vicious cycle: Blockbusters from both have spent more money on…
Nov 25
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B
Long stretches of the new Pixar movie, Soul, are set in a serene nirvana called The Great Before. With its soft,…
Nov 24
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D
Note: The writer of this review watched Stardust on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to see…
Nov 24
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C
There are two movies at war with each other inside Uncle Frank. In the first, Frank (Paul Bettany), a celebrated…
Nov 23
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B-
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Note: The writer of this review watched The Croods: A New Age on a digital screener from home. Before making the…
Nov 20
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There’s no reason why a movie that features Jackie Chan, lion attacks, and machete-wielding henchmen on Jet Skis…
Nov 20
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A-
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“Life can change in the blink of an eye” is one of those clichés that sounds more hyperbolic than it really is.…
Nov 19
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B
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Mix The Family Stone with While You Were Sleeping, add a touch of My Best Friend’s Wedding, and give the whole thing…
Nov 18
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B
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Sound Of Metal is nothing without its sound design. It’s a story about music and deafness—both auditory…
Nov 18
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C-
All Chris Columbus wants for Christmas is mayhem. He may not fully admit it, insulating his destructive impulses…
Nov 18
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A-
Academic consensus credits Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle as the originator of the “great man theory” of…
Nov 17
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C+
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Note: The writer of this review watched The Last Vermeer from home. Before making the decision to see it—or any…
Nov 17
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C
Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the show not the movie, makes two appearances in Josh Boone’s long-delayed superhero…
Nov 16
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B-
In Run, helicopter parenting reaches a whole new level of unhinged. Likely taking cues from the real-life Munchausen-…
Nov 11
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A-
Note: The writer of this review watched The Climb on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to see…
Nov 11
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B+
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Note: The writer of this review watched Dreamland on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to see…
Nov 11
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B-
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Note: The writer of this review watched Ammonite on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to see…
Nov 11
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B+
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Note: The writer of this review watched Wolfwalkers from home. Before making the decision to see it—or any other…