Somewhere inside the 128-minute Live by Night is a reasonably solid, 168-minute movie struggling to get out. No, that's not a typo: You can sense the contours of an
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What if I unironically told you that violently killing terrorists was the basis of our most pure Christmas movie?Most prized among people of this opinion ... BuzzFee
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The Assassin's Creed video games are about skipping through tedious cut scenes set in the present so that you can vault into the past, through and over gorgeous
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Both a film noir and a candy-colored confection, Pedro Almodóvar's Julieta is one of the most absorbing films he's made in years. It's also, perhaps, one of the sad
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We Rock With Standing RockFonda TheatreSunday, Dec. 18, 2016Water is life. That rather obvious concept has been at the center of a showdown between activists and aut
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For better and for worse, Peter Berg has found his genre. After oscillating between sports (Friday Night Lights), superheroes (Hancock) and even board games (Battles
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Sure, we've all become desensitized to screen violence, but that doesn't mean we can't be shocked. Ken Loach's quietly furious I, Daniel Blake will l
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Delving into microeconomics and macroaggressions, Toni Erdmann, the dynamite, superbly acted third feature by writer-director Maren Ade, is social studies at its fin
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In 2016, I was struck by how many stellar horror and thriller films hit theaters. These are movies that transcend their genres, and they're also what primarily comp
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Johnny Depp is drenched in blood when he walks up to the nurse's station and jokes to me and several others, I think I split my nipple!? The fog machine is on overdr
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2017 looks like it won't be an improvement over 2016, so here are some promising films ? either reviewed or previewed ? to distract you in the next three months.
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Parents be warned: J.A. Bayona and Patrick Ness' kid-meets-beast coming-of-age fantasy is a reclamation of fairy stories from the reassuring fiction of happily ever
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