The latest collaboration between director Scott Cooper and actor Christina Bale is a moody and mostly effective Gothic thriller.
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Director Sarah Polley evokes empathy and wonder with this spare, dialogue-driven drama filled with rich performances from its ensemble.
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Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s sprawling, brainy novel is ambitious, messy, and kind of brilliant.
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Our mini-reviews of ‘Nightride,’ ‘Teenage Emotions,’ ‘I’m Totally Fine,’ and more of the year’s best straight-to-home-theater fare.
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Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Netflix original is a transparent ‘8 1/2’ and ‘All that Jazz’ riff, filled with both striking images and clumsy metaphors.
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Our mini-reviews of ‘The Apology,’ ‘The Christmas Tapes,’ ‘Mistletoe Time Machine,’ and more of this year’s straight-to-VOD holiday fare.
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The latest from Sam Mendes is admirably ambitious but ultimately unsuccessful – a case of a director who needed a stronger screenwriter than himself.
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“What if the Grinch was the killer in a forgettable indie slasher movie?” is not a question that needed to be answered.
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The Oscar-winning director reinvents the timeworn tale with this fresh but flawed stop-motion version.
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We first see Charlie as his students see him: as a black box in a Zoom class. “The camera on my […]
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This week’s straight-to-VOD mini-reviews include “I Am D.B. Cooper,” “Dragon Eats Eagle,” and “Renegades.”
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This snow-covered, blood-spattered holiday action flick is dumb, sure – but delightfully dumb.
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