In Avengers: Infinity War, Josh Brolin is big and purple. His Thanos is the film’s lynchpin and its main character almost […]
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This week’s “good enough, I guess, if you’re not too picky” home-invasion thriller is Breaking In,”which offers the innovative twist of […]
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You’ll think you’ve seen Life of the Party before, or at least something very much like it: A dowdy, newly divorced mom […]
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My brother and I like to bother each other and those around us with a game of soundtracks: When a deep, […]
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This month marks the 10th anniversary of David Mamet’s mixed-martial-arts thriller Redbelt. In the intervening years, Mamet — the preeminent American […]
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The rape-revenge sub-genre has many entries, and everything about Revenge (including the title) sounds derivative until you get to the credits. How […]
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There are two premises in Bad Samaritan, one that drives the plot and one that explains the villain’s motives. They are […]
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Diablo Cody’s screenwriting career started with a pregnant teenager named Juno. She returns to the subject of maternity with Tully, but […]
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Any remake of the 1987 Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell “romantic” “comedy” Overboard would have to reverse the genders. A single father of three […]
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Some movies provide so much vivid detail about a character that you could practically write a biography. Lynne Ramsay’s mesmerizing You […]
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There are no literal hauntings in Ismael’s Ghosts, a wry, lyrical, but often plodding drama from director Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas […]
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As college kids everywhere illegally stream or see Avengers: Infinity War in the theater, they might be looking pretty hard for the puffy guy […]
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