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'20th Century Women': Annette Bening and a Top Cast Are in Peak Form in One of the Year's Best Movies Dec. 28, 2016
"20th Century Women" tells a coming-of-age story in which even the grown-ups are still coming of age... Read More
'Silence': Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver Worshipping at the Church of Scorsese Dec. 23, 2016
The question of God's silence in the face of human suffering has tested religious faith throughout t... Read More
'Assassin's Creed': Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in Another Terrible Video Game Flick Dec. 21, 2016
"Assassin's Creed" is a movie of sprawling awfulness, and you might initially to wonder why. The sto... Read More
'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story': Felicity Jones in a Galaxy Not All That Far Away... Dec. 16, 2016
Officially positioned as a stand-alone tale, "Rogue One" nevertheless accomplishes a nifty thing wit... Read More
'La La Land': Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in a Lush New Kind of Movie Musical Dec. 09, 2016
Damien Chazelle's "La La Land" takes the standard objection to movie musicals — Why are all th... Read More
'Jackie': Natalie Portman in a Stillborn Bio-Snippet From the Kennedy Years Dec. 02, 2016
Just returned from Dallas, where her husband was assassinated as he sat by her side in the back of a... Read More
'Allied': Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard in a Retro Wartime Romance Nov. 25, 2016
Is there some great unslaked popular hankering for a wartime romance along the lines of Casablanca? ... Read More
'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them': Eddie Redmayne in a Return to Potter World, or Someplace Sort of Like It Nov. 18, 2016
You can't go back to Hogwarts again, obviously — it ran out of books. But the newly devised Am... Read More
'Arrival': Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner on Alien Saving Time Nov. 11, 2016
"Arrival" is a thinking human's alien-invasion movie. The mood is austere, the story oblique (at fir... Read More
'Jack Reacher: Never Go Back': Tom Cruise Going Through the Motions in a Mild, Unmemorable Thriller Oct. 21, 2016
Tom Cruise wanders through "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back" like a man in search of a better movie. Or ... Read More
'Christine': Rebecca Hall Is Darkly Brilliant in a True-Life Story of Death on the Airwaves Oct. 14, 2016
Director Antonio Campos's "Christine" tells the story — or as much of it as possible — o... Read More
'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children': Tim Burton Back in Nearly Top Form Sep. 30, 2016
With "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," Tim Burton delivers his most winningly crafted f... Read More
'Snowden' and 'Bridget Jones's Baby': Oliver Stone and Renee Zellweger Return, in Top Form Sep. 16, 2016
"Snowden" is Oliver Stone's best movie in years (years that have included such trifling films as "Sa... Read More
'Don't Breathe' and 'I Am Not a Serial Killer': Fresh New Adventures in Low-Budget Horror Aug. 26, 2016
"A group of friends break into the house of a wealthy blind man, thinking they'll get away with the ... Read More
'Jason Bourne': Matt Damon in a Franchise Rescue Mission Jul. 29, 2016
In "Jason Bourne," the world's most misunderstood killing machine returns after a nine-year exile. F... Read More
'Star Trek Beyond': Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine Take the Enterprise Out for Yet Another Spin Jul. 22, 2016
For a movie that's reckoned to have cost about $150 million to make, "Star Trek Beyond" is unusually... Read More
'Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates' and 'Zero Days': Light Summer Laughs, Deep Cyberwar Doom Jul. 08, 2016
"Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates" succeeds as a fizzy summer comedy largely because it raises so few ... Read More
'The Neon Demon' and 'The Shallows': Elle Fanning in a Bad Art Movie, Blake Lively Versus a Very Bad Shark Jun. 24, 2016
You'd think that any movie featuring lesbian cannibalism and lesbian necrophilia — and even a ... Read More
'Tickled': Much Stranger Than Fiction Jun. 17, 2016
You'd think that any film that kicked off in the world of fetish tickling videos would be content to... Read More
'X-Men: Apocalypse': Not Bad May. 27, 2016
Do we really need a fourth superhero movie in a year that isn't even half over yet? Maybe not. But d... Read More
