Ghost in the Shell looks great, sounds great and has a gaping hole at its center ? where its emotional core should be. This big-budget adaptation of the Japanese ma
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Unpromisingly, Five Came Back, a series that surveys the military service of directors Frank Capra, John Ford, John Huston, George Stevens and William Wyler ? who cu
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The premise for Charlie McDowell's The Discovery is so simple and poetic that it's hard to believe it hasn't been done before: A scientist discovers definitive proof
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The Boss Baby might look, at first, like any other major studio animation release. Directed by DreamWorks vet Tom McGrath (Madagascar, Megamind), the movie hits all
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The Blackcoat's Daughter opens Friday, March 31 in theaters and on-demand. I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House streams on Netflix. When writer-director Osg
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It's fitting that one of the great films about jazz centers on the re-creation of a moment. Kasper Collin's exquisitely haunted meditation I Called Him Morgan, about
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Niki Caro has the rare ability to elevate what could be emotionally manipulative shlock to earnest art. To judge by the trailer, her low-budget breakthrough feature,
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Having now reached the age of its wayward protagonist, Donnie Darko is once again being tasked with forestalling the end of the world. Richard Kelly's sleeper fi
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CHIPS is the latest kitschy-yet-beloved cop show to get remodeled on the big screen as a bromantic buddy comedy. However, unlike the way the movie versions of Starsk
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To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters airs March 26 on PBS.Some of us can never have too much of the Brontës. But I understand if your response to another dose of
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One of the sly jokes underpinning this striking indie apocalypse: If everyone on Earth vanished while you were vacationing in Iceland, how long before you would noti
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Mainstream awareness of Breitbart, Infowars and other unsavory conservative news? outlets has skyrocketed, as millions suddenly found themselves needing to know who
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