This vigorously inventive French import shows up America's young-folks-kinda-maybe-starting-to-get-it-together comedies as the pre-fab product they are. Writer-d
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Oh man, are we in a backlash on liberal, PC culture right now. I mean, if you can call electing the KKK's and Nazi party's greatest white hope to the highest office
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As Allied opens, Brad Pitt parachutes so gently and quietly onto a stretch of Moroccan desert that at first you think he might be dead. And maybe he sort of is ? may
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A French Village starts off on June 12, 1940, with a premiere that includes a German fighter plane shooting at children on a school trip. The scene is suspenseful bu
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It turns out that getting a personal phone call from Hollywood legend Warren Beatty is not unlike getting a call from Howard Hughes, the larger-than-life, eccentric
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While indigenous people have endured a sometimes complicated history in California, the contemporary filmmakers, writers, chefs, and artists featured in L.A. Weekly
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Maybe it was the agitated, election-induced state of mind I was in when I saw it, but Disney's Moana feels like a movie about how easy it can be to give up, and how
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Eventually, there will be so many films about a sullen or damaged man returning to his provincial town to face the demons of his past that Netflix will make a separa
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When you call cows, you say co'boss. And when you call sheep, you say co'da. This information is relayed to us in the first few minutes of Peter and the Farm
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It's 9:30 a.m. on a Friday. I'm fiddling with a walkie-talkie in a photo studio off North Broadway in Chinatown. Around me, 15 others are enduring a mandatory safety
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According to Forbes, Fan Bingbing last year made $17 million ? more than any actress on the planet not named Jennifer Lawrence, Melissa McCarthy, Scarlett Johansson
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Tom Ford has entirely overstuffed his nesting-doll domestic dramacum-thriller Nocturnal Animals, yet I spent much of the film worrying that it might not have a point
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