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The onscreen reunion of Bruce Willis and John Travolta is a mostly dispiriting experience.

Millie Bobby Brown continues to delight in this sequel to the Netflix adventure.

The new “Weird Al” Yankovic mock-biopic has a few good ideas and funny scenes, but suffers from tonal inconsistencies and pacing problems.

Though often macabre, Henry Selick and Jordan Peele’s Netflix original avoids being too grim, offering pleasures in its goofy, gross-out humor and marvelously detailed stop-motion animation.

James Gray’s autobiographical account of growing up in New York in the early 1980s is messier than your typical coming-of-age story, and that’s a good thing.

This tropical rom-com never manages to be sweet, funny, or nasty enough, inhabiting a bland middle ground that’s saved largely by Julia Roberts and George Clooney’s enduring charm.

Stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson reunite with writer/director Martin McDonagh for a darkly funny and deeply poignant examination of friendship, guilt, and forgiveness.

Park Chan-wook’s latest is a haunting yet delicious mash-up of Asian policier, film noir, and stifled romance.

Chinonye Chukwu’s historical drama is a tough sit, but it tells a still-urgent story with sensitivity and intelligence.

Lena Dunham goes medieval for this charming coming-of-age comedy based on the award-winning children’s book.

Ruben Östlund’s Cannes winner is a savagely funny indictment of class, celebrity, and culture, even if it occasionally makes its points a bit too bluntly. Our review:

Billy Eichner and Nicholas Stoller’s new gay rom-com barely manages to spice the too-familiar with anything remotely new.