There are two distinct movies in Gianfranco Rosi's Fire at Sea, and you could say that somewhere in between them lies the real one. The director, an Italian document
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Between The Night Manager, Veep and now Chance, a new Hulu series adapted from a nasty Kem Nunn novel, Hugh Laurie has had an exceptional year in television. The Hul
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Before we get into the matter of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, we must first address the issue of the man actually playing Jack Reacher. Resolved: Tom Cruise has abso
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It's rare for a franchise, especially in the horror genre, to actually get better as it progresses ? doubly so if the final part of said progression is a TV seri
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Michael Moore has mellowed ? and mostly stopped playing dumb. His new film, a present-tense rah-rah-Hillary insta-job put together on the schedule of an episode of S
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Have there ever been entertainment-media product tie-ins like the Ouija movies? The shriekingly enjoyable Ouija: Origin of Evil, like its less successful 2014 predec
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A question is posed to the main character of Barry Jenkins' wondrous, superbly acted new film, Moonlight: Who is you, man?? The beauty of Jenkins' second feature, wh
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When Sarah Waters published her gothic lesbian suspense novel?Fingersmith in early 2002, the United States was beginning a relatively speedy transformation on the LG
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The Handmaiden, Korean director Park Chan-wook's Gothic lesbian tale of romance, revenge and (light) bondage, is the kind of electrifying indulgence only he can make
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Even those of us with a soft spot for dumb, high-concept Hollywood comedies might be outraged by the limp, unfunny nothingburger that is Keeping Up With the Joneses.
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In one of the more bizarre coincidences of film scheduling, the brief life of a TV journalist whose biggest scoop was announcing her own death on air is recapitulate
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If I have to hear Ti West's movies called slow burns? one more time, I might set my laptop on fire right quick. West's breakthrough hit, The House of the Devil, was
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