Watching Anna Kendrick in Pitch Perfect 3 is something like watching Harrison Ford in Return of the Jedi or your high school's football coach teaching health class.
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It is unconscionable that as late as 2017, the United States has taken precisely zero substantive steps toward the prevention of Jumanji crises. These have come stea
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It's curious that so bold a film as Alexander Payne's apocalyptic cli-fi satire Downsizing fails due to a fundamental lack of nerve. Yet here we are. Payne has dared
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A lark, a fling, a protean evocation of life between cultures, 1965's Shakespeare Wallah, the second Merchant-Ivory production, remains a breezy and beguiling study,
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Errol Morris' murky, evening-long epic Wormwood is the kind of true-crime documentary where you just know someone will pronounce, in the final hour or so, For me, pa
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If you were to jot down a list of things you expect to happen in The Leisure Seeker ? a comic drama in which a married couple facing their last days embark on a Mass
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Much like a day at elementary school, this verite wonder?called Miss Kiet's Children?is exhausting, heartening, raucous, tender, occasionally dull, sometimes tearful
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Jonathan Olshefski took almost 10 years to shoot his moving life-inNorth Philly documentary Quest, an intimate study of one African-American family over the course o
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Watching Liam O'Donnell's Beyond Skyline, a Los Angelesset alien-invasion action sequel to 2010's critically-panned-but-audience-adored Skyline, had me rethinking ho
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Jared Moshe has a thing for graves. His debut feature, Dead Man's Burden (2012), which unfolds in the wake of the Civil War, opened with a murder and a funeral, and
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Reinvigorated by J.J. Abrams' everything-old-is-deja-vu-again Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015 and spelled by last year's forgettable offshoot Rogue O
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Saturday, Dec. 16UCLA continues its magnanimous Nitrate Treasures series with Jules Dassin's archetypal film noir Night and the City. Richard Widmark plays Harry
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