Yes, you've heard it's bad. It is. But there are some things to like in The Dark Tower, the new adaptation of Stephen King's epic novel series, directed by Nikolaj A
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Watching movies for a living is a tough job, but somebody's got to do it, and our film critics are up to the task. While they see plenty of stellar movies, they
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It's August, which means it's even hotter than July and you need TV now more than ever! The planet is hot, but you watching TV in your underwear with a fan pointed d
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Comrade Detective premieres on Amazon Prime on Aug. 4. Castlevania streams on Netflix.Only slowly does it become clear that Comrade Detective, a star-driven meta-pra
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Give Putin this: The man knows how to deny his government's elaborate, outrageous conspiracies violating international laws and norms. To this day, despite the 3
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In Columbus, architecture takes the place of emotions, to sometimes startling effect. An outwardly chilly, resolutely static film that nevertheless finds poignancy i
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At 5 p.m. Thursday, I became one of the first people in this country to see The Emoji Movie a second time. (Aside, obviously, from the folks who made it ? though I'm
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I sincerely hope that there's a five-hour cut of Kathryn Bigelow's Detroit somewhere, a version with cleaner throughlines, deeper characterizations and a more organi
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Officially, the brutish thriller Atomic Blonde takes place in Berlin just before and after the toppling of the Wall, in early November 1989. But this seismic event i
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The Last Tycoon premieres July 28 on Amazon Prime. Here's how a fan magazine might profile the hero of The Last Tycoon (Amazon), played by Matt Bomer. His name belo
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It's hard to imagine a less promising film title than An Inconvenient Sequel. Maybe Another Imposition Upon Your Time? It's clear, in the opening minutes, as we watc
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The first woman I met in line outside of the Passions: Fan Festival on Sunday morning was having sort of a shitty day. She'd left Big Bear at the buttcrack of da
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