Just a little more than three months ago, Tom Cruise starred in a lifeless wannabe-blockbuster called The Mummy, which made little use of his innate charisma (shut u
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Please accept what follows as a considered statement, arrived at through observation and experience, and not as film-review hype or boilerplate: Kate Mulleavy and La
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The barriers to entry for L.A.'s comedy scene are fairly low: If you want to learn improv, there are hundreds of classes for that, at schools from?iO West to the
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There's no delicate way to say this, so I'll just spit it out. I spent the first 10 minutes of Stronger, David Gordon Green's eventually potent drama of trauma and r
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They call it the town that plays itself. Monticchiello, population 118, is a tiny hamlet in Tuscany that, since the 1960s, has annually staged a new play written and
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Imagine if the whimsical French film Amelie got dirty. And that Amelie's love interest had pink eye, tended bar at a strip club and only liked her for her blowjobs.
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Imagine a world in which an unchained Django is the one who shot J.R. Ewing. Where instead of a cat-eating extraterrestrial, the Tanner family adopted the pawnshop g
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Lording over the colonies is all bore and bother for the queen in Stephen Frears' sumptuous yet centerless Victoria & Abdul. The film dramatizes Queen Victoria's spi
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Darren Aronofsky's Mother! is so much movie that critics April Wolfe and Alan Scherstuhl have elected to sync up Pacific Rimstyle to take it on. Warning: The dis
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Spare and heartsick, Arturo Ripstein's 1966 cycles-of-violence Western parable Time to Die finds nothing romantic in showdowns and shootouts. It's a swift slow burn
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L.A. Weekly?film critic April Wolfe is reporting for us from the Toronto International Film Festival. The documentary section of TIFF has a reputation for programmi
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In Battle of the Sexes,Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' film rehashing the most infamous tennis match in modern history, Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) must brawl w
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