One of the most powerful documentaries of 2016, Keith Maitland's Tower immerses the viewer in the 1966 massacre at the University of Texas, during which Charles Whit
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On a soundstage in Hollywood last week, dozens of young people waited in line all night to pay homage to a newly christened saint at her candle-adorned altar. The ma
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Say this for Sleepless: It gives Michelle Monaghan more to do than almost anything else you've seen her in lately, whether it beTrue Detective or Patriots Day, a
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Last June, after the death of Muhammad Ali, Michael Mann's Will Smithstarring 2001 film Ali was briefly re-released in theaters. This allowed many of us to see it wi
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In Staying Vertical, as in nearly all of French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie's tonically unorthodox work, the emphasis is on the abundant possibility of pairings and pr
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Like its subject, the man who took McDonald's from a single burger shop to a globe-straddling child-fattener, John Lee Hancock's The Founder can't stop selli
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M. Night Shyamalan appears again to be having a moment. His last film, 2015's grandparents-gone-wrong horror flick The Visit, proved a small hit with critics and aud
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Roger Corman is not a visionary. But he is a prophet foretelling the future.In 1954, the notoriously thrifty B-movie/genre director pioneered the multipicture deal,
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Maybe it's a just a sign of the Blumhouse-era horror-movie world we find ourselves in, but there's something refreshing about a scare flick that (a) actually
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Despite his reputation, M. Night Shyamalan has never lived and died by the twist. His best films, like Unbreakable or even last year's cheerily nasty wicked-gran
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Near the end of Underworld, the 2003 film that launched the popular (and profitable) horror franchise, Viktor (Bill Nighy), king of the vampires, tries to kill the w
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The real estate in the Los Angeles area is just too valuable to allow vacant and shuttered properties to sit vacant and shuttered for too long. Three locations we
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