Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, written as an original screenplay by author J.K. Rowling, is an expansion of her Harry Potter universe, and a test: Without
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Ben Younger's workmanlike but nevertheless rousing Bleed for This accomplishes something that's a tall order for any boxing movie: It makes the inspirational trainin
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The Amazon series Good Girls Revolt, centered on a landmark 1970 gender-discrimination case at Newsweek, is the kind of period drama that's more interested in commen
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At the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year, I got up early for a public screening of I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, a horror film?w
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Most people have by now forgotten that the ubiquitous concept of glamour was originally part of the vocabulary of witchcraft. Before the 19th century, glamour refer
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It's fun watching Ginny Baker be rude to people. I was hesitant to give a chance to Pitch, the new Fox series imagining the life and career of the (fictional) first
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk is a small film burdened with the epic, thanks to both its subject and its setting. Based on Ben Fountain's 2012 novel, it depicts a
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Dutch provocateur Paul Verhoeven has dedicated his career to sifting through trash to extract ugly truths. He's a former math and physics student who decided mov
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It's impossible not to think of the T-Rex scene in Jurassic Park while watching Bryan Bertino's chilling and succinctly titled The Monster. You remember: It's dark,
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Anna Biller's ripe, vibrant The Love Witch is an act of reclamation ? and love. In this out-of-time extravaganza of feminist-satanist serial-killer erotica, the
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Imagine bringing a cute little baby alligator home from the pet store only to see it grow into a giant 15-foot gator that takes over your house and dominates your da
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One day, Denis Villeneuve will make a truly great movie. This is, apparently, a controversial opinion. Many out there feel strongly that the Canadian filmmaker has b
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