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In Paris-set ‘Dheepan,’ a timely refugee thriller
French director Jacques Audiard is a curious combination of art-house auteur and genre filmmaker, a brazen showman and gritty naturalist. He makes tender and ... -
Adaptation examines dysfunction of ‘The Family Fang’
Family dysfunction takes on new meaning in “The Family Fang,” a film about a pair of performance artists for whom everything in life is ... -
It’s worth stopping into ‘Barbershop: The Next Cut’
When you come back to a beloved place after many years, sometimes you find all the faces have changed and the vibe is completely ... -
In ‘Green Room’ a punk band faces the truly hardcore
Play your early stuff,” is the advice given to the punk band The Ain’t Rights when their dirt-broke, gas-siphoning tour lands a last-minute gig ... -
Grief gets weird in Vallee’s ‘Demolition’
What if a young man who just lost his young wife in a car accident experienced none of the stages of grief? What if ... -
Linklater’s portrait of the artist as young frat boy
Everybody Wants Some!!” is Richard Linklater’s self-described spiritual sequel to “Dazed and Confused,” and, somewhat miraculously, the spirit has remained intact. It’s been 13 ... -
Worlds collide in ‘Batman v Superman’
Zac Snyder’s thundering and grim “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” offers the kind of blunt, mano-a-mano faceoff usually reserved for Predators, Godzillas and ... -
‘Midnight Special’ is an electrifying mystery
Midnight Special” is one of those rare, stimulating creations that grabs you and penetrates your bloodstream from start to finish. This unique tale about ... -
In ‘Eye in the Sky,’ drone warfare gets its close up
Omniscient high-definition views from above have done nothing to penetrate the fog of war in Gavin Hood’s drone drama “Eye in the Sky.” It’s ... -
‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ looks inside war reporting
Journalism is having a moment at the movies. Days after the journalism procedural “Spotlight” won best picture at the Academy Awards, Paramount is releasing ... -
Crooked cops gone worse in muddled ‘Triple 9’
Triple 9″ has everything going for it, and that’s it biggest handicap. This tale of gangsters and crooked cops in Atlanta has got a ... -
In ‘The Witch,’ a haunting prequel to Salem
Set under gray Puritan skies in a deathly autumn, “The Witch” is a slow-burning 1600s horror thriller so bone-dry it would only take a ... -
‘Zoolander 2’ tries a little too hard to up the ante
In case you don’t follow the global fashion calendar, Fashion Week has just begun in New York, bringing with it a few nice clothes ... -
In ‘Hail, Caesar!’ a studio fixer’s faith is tested
The Coen canon reaches a crescendo — or rather a warped inversion of one — in “Hail, Caesar!” when the brothers assemble a quartet ... -
Waves and nostalgia wash over ‘The Finest Hours’
Waves of water and nostalgia wash over the drenched and drippy “The Finest Hours,” a Norman Rockwell painting tossed into stormy CGI seas. The ... -
Maggie Smith in her wheel house in ‘Lady in the Van’
There are cozy, innocuous pleasures to Nicholas Hytner’s adaption of Alan Bennett’s “The Lady in the Van,” but chief among them is watching ... -
‘Making a Murderer’ depicts justice gone awry
Making a Murderer” is the latest series to demand you not just watch, but binge. But since its Netflix debut on Dec. 18, it’s ... -
Charlie Kaufman’s ‘Anomalisa’ will break your heart
In “Anomalisa” everyone looks and sounds the same. They have the same face (Caucasian, bland, non-descript). They have the same voice (Tom Noonan’s). They ... -
Moore ‘invades’ Europe to teach us all some lessons
Of course Michael Moore exaggerates. Of course he engages in cheerful, unabashed cherry-picking. Of course he sees black and white where most of us ... -
A sensitive Will Smith anchors worthy ‘Concussion’
One of the most impactful scenes in “Concussion” is a brief and wordless one: Just a few seconds, really, of a high school football ... -
Holocaust tale ‘Son of Saul’ haunts and provokes
Son of Saul” doesn’t just get under your skin — it goes straight to the bloodstream. There, it churns and festers as you try ... -
Ron Howard’s ‘In the Heart of the Sea’ is adrift
Ron Howard’s “In the Heart of the Sea” is a curious beast. The ambitions are as big as a whale; the results are an ... -
Spike Lee’s blistering ‘Chi-Raq’ burns with rage
More alive than most of the year’s films put together, Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” is urgent agitprop that pulsates with unalloyed rage for the “self-inflicted ... -
Yo Rocky! Gritty, soulful ‘Creed’ goes the distance
Admit it. When you heard another “Rocky” movie was coming out — a seventh — you thought, really? How many “Rocky” movies do we ... -
A marriage on the rocks in Jolie Pitt’s ‘By the Sea’
How do we picture the private lives of Angelina Jolie Pitt and Brad Pitt? If they were to, say, wind along the Mediterranean coast ... -
‘Peanuts Movie’ a worthy romp for the beloved gang
Maybe the Peanuts gang hasn’t been on the big screen in decades because they’ve had so much success on the small one, with specials ... -
‘Spectre’ stirs, doesn’t shake old Bond formulas
Where to go when 53 years of action-scene set pieces have exhausted seemingly every exotic corner of the Earth? How much globe can a ... -
Ronan enchants in warm immigrant tale ‘Brooklyn’
Brooklyn” is a story for anyone who has ever left home. It’s a story for those who’ve waffled in indecision, for those forming their ... -
Larson, Tremblay illuminate the darkness of ‘Room’
Arresting and heartbreaking, wrought with extremes of tension and love, “Room” is as evocative and unforgettable on screen as in the bestselling novel ... -
Del Toro’s ‘Crimson Peak’ casts a gothic spell
The most pressing threat in Guillermo del Toro’s gothic horror “Crimson Peak” isn’t the ooze-filled cauldrons of dead souls in the basement of the ... -
Authentic, moving performances elevate ‘Freeheld’
Few actresses bring the simple authenticity to the screen that Julianne Moore does; it’s virtually impossible to imagine this actress sounding a false note. ... -
Damon charms as stranded astronaut in ‘The Martian’
Without Matt Damon, the solitary fight for survival on Mars would be lonely indeed. Alone on screen for most of his scenes as an ... -
The bearable niceness of ‘The Intern’
The world of Nancy Meyers sure is beautiful. But her studied production design and dreamy interiors have become such a focal point, that they’ve ... -
Gere, quiet and moving in portrait of a homeless man
Spare change? Any spare change?” The man holding the cup in the street looks, from a distance, like just some guy in a wool ... -
Gibney presents Steve Jobs’ darker side in new documentary
Was Steve Jobs a brilliant visionary whose singular mind, capable of blending art, technology and commerce as never before, inspired the world to “think ...
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