There was a time when the summer movie season was a season, sandwiched between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends. By the 21st century, the start date drifted back
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Something troubling is afoot in Westeros: The heroes are beginning to outnumber the villains. The sixth season of Game of Thrones has already seen Jon Snow's ret
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Let's break the bad news this way. Maria Bamford's new Netflix series isn't a disaster. It's sometimes funny ? it's got comic genius Maria Bamfor
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In Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, the sequel to 2014's old peoplevs.frat brothers comedy, Zac Efron takes off his shirt in nearly every scene he's in. It's a sight to
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Orenthal James Simpson always seemed a singular figure. Hardly anybody got where he got or did what he did. Certainly nobody got away with it. But of course it isn't
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The slow-moving parade of clamor and stupidity that stops up Times Square might annoy New Yorkers. But late in Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Andy Schocken's cross-cu
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In his tight, trim, health insurance thriller A Monster With a Thousand Heads, Mexican-Uruguayan director Rodrigo Plá achieves a visual style that is ice cold but a
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The first time I saw the documentary Weiner, at Missouri's True/False Festival this past March, Donald Trump was boasting about the size of his cock during a pre
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Richard Bridgland was given an impossible task: Re-create 1970s Hollywood for Shane Black's buddy conspiracy thriller The Nice Guys ... in Atlanta. As a producti
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As generic and impersonal as a new credit-card offer, Jodie Foster's Money Monster is the latest big-studio production to try to cash in on populist outrage over Wal
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When Netflix renewed Grace and Frankie for a second season, the half-hour dramedy starring 9 to 5 coworkers Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin had gotten mixed reviews from
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Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump's microbudget black-and-white English Civil War mushroom-trip movie A Field in England (2013) squeezed a tense and bizarre story from just
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