And they keep on coming: After the international critical and commercial breakthroughs of Asghar Farhadi's A Separation and The Past, Fireworks Wednesday represe
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A fractured film about a fractured family, Louder Than Bombs takes a potentially tired premise and reshapes it before our eyes. It opens on a newborn's tiny hand hel
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A she-wolf of Wall Street with a spiky ginger Suze Orman shag, Michelle Darnell, the anti-heroine of fitfully funny The Boss, is the latest of the Rabelaisian wonder
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Clowning, bullet-riddled rom-com Mr. Right is awfully charming in the best and worse sense of the phrase. It's often kind of awful but also weirdly, effervescent
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'Shaken-baby syndrome' is in the realm of mythology, says neurosurgeon Ayub Ommaya in archival footage featured in the documentary The Syndrome. Yet it was Ommaya's
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Jean-Marc Vall?e's Demolition presents an interesting experiment: What if you told a story of tragedy but withheld all the tenderness and emotion from it, so that yo
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What?! You mean Jesse Eisenberg isn't in it? ? dismayed theatergoer overheard outside the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.It's tempting to approach T
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Superhero fans may not know stunt coordinator Philip J Silvera's name, but they do know his work. Silvera's choreography turned heads in such recent comic-bo
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Actor-comedian Wayne Federman is a guy you know. He was Garry Shandling's brother on The Larry Sanders Show and he was Dean Weinstock?(the neighbor who really wa
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The main attraction in the engaging, largely predictable chess drama The Dark Horse is the gripping lead performance by Cliff Curtis, a part-Maori actor from New Zea
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The dinner-and-a-movie date is a classic component of the American courting ritual, but sometimes that shit gets old. You're tired of movie theater popcorn and c
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Some free advice: If you ever find yourself defensively reminding people that you're not in a cult, you're probably in a cult. This comes up early and often in The P
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