If your city's power grid shuts down this summer, it may be a brownout, or it may be an act of cyber-warfare ? a straight-out-of-Hollywood scenario that suddenly see
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In his latest family portrait, Our Little Sister, Hirokazu Kore-eda chronicles roughly a year in the life of the Koda clan ? or what's left of it. When, years ago, h
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James DeMonaco's Purge series, about a near future in which all crime is legal for one annual 12-hour period, began as a disturbing setup for basic genre thrills: 20
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Our film critics spent serious time in front of the big screen this month to pick their 12 favorite films of June 2016. If a few haven't opened in a theater near
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The multiplex may be bogged down with sequels and reboots, but that doesn't mean there's nothing worthwhile in theaters. Any number of great movies have alre
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Stanley Kubrick once sent his friend John le Carr? a letter about why he couldn't adapt one of the author's books. Essentially, he wrote, how do you tell a story it
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At last, a Hollywood reimagining with a point. David Yates' two-fisted pulp-studies spree The Legend of Tarzan doesn't just update Edgar Rice Burroughs'
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If there's a war movie we haven't seen enough of yet, it's one from the female perspective, one that further obscures who the good guys and bad guys really are. In A
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Very few advance screenings preceded?Independence Day: Resurgence's arrival?in theaters on the evening of June 23. That's eight days ahead of the July Fourth wee
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Going viral guarantees little beyond having your 15 minutes of fame re-uploaded to YouTube in ever-diminishing quality, the original video (and its impressive view c
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Can Steven Spielberg do comedy? That seems like a dumb question, since nobody has done more to bring wit to the modern blockbuster; Raiders of ?the Lost Ark and Jaws
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Quietly moving doc Life, Animated has a hook worthy of the most shameless of Hollywood weepies, offering tragedy and a miracle and much ado about the power of movies
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