While I’ve always liked the original Star Wars trilogy, I don’t have the depth of knowledge (i.e., memorization) that some do, so […]
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Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg started to become a pop-culture icon a few years ago, when the court shifted rightward […]
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The imaginatively titled Book Club, about four women in their late 60s whose love lives are rekindled by reading the Fifty […]
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What distinguishes Deadpool from most other superheroes is that he swears, kills people, and breaks the fourth wall. That is also, […]
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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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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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