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1950s-set 'Brooklyn' is a rich, deeply moving melodrama

Soaring, swooning and gently nostalgic, “Brooklyn” takes melodrama to a new level of reassuring simplicity and emotional transparency. The exquisite adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s no...

DATE: Jan 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Suffragette

With its sepia tones and stirring themes, “Suffragette” arrives in theaters with the full weight of history and topical resonance behind it. The story of British activists who fou...

DATE: Nov 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Learning to Drive

Patricia Clarkson brings her usual delicacy and class to a toothsome starring role in “Learning to Drive,” a gentle-natured if unimaginative allegory about trust, communication and intercult...

DATE: Oct 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Johnny Depp returns to form in the tepid crime drama 'Black Mass'

Johnny Depp delivers a frigid, dead-eyed performance as ruthless South Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger in “Black Mass,” a somber-toned dramatization of how Bulger manipulated the local...

DATE: Sep 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

'Straight Outta Compton': An enlightening portrait of N.W.A.

“Straight Outta Compton,” a drama about the rap group N.W.A., boasts instant audience appeal. Longtime admirers of the Los Angeles ensemble, who helped create West Coast gangsta r...

DATE: Aug 13, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

In 'Amy,' the singer Amy Winehouse comes into clear, unsettling focus

It’s all too easy to revert to familiar rhetoric when the subject is Amy Winehouse. Superbly gifted, the singer also publicly grappled with addiction to alcohol and heroin, a battle with dem...

DATE: Aug 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Magic Mike XXL

“Magic Mike,” Steven Soderbergh’s modest, playfully liberated comedy about male strippers that took multiplexes by storm three years ago, possessed that ineffable concentration of qualities ...

DATE: Jul 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Dope

Every once in a while, a movie and a moment converge in an uncanny collision of relevance. “Dope,” an exuberant coming-of-age comedy that beguiled audiences at Sundance earlier this year, en...

DATE: Jun 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Jurassic World

“Jurassic World,” the third sequel to 1993’s classic fantasy-adventure “Jurassic Park,” gets off to an imaginative start. After an opening sequence of clawed, amber-eyed creatures poking thr...

DATE: Jun 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Aloha

Somewhere on the incoherent pu pu platter that is Cameron Crowe’s “Aloha,” a nifty romantic comedy congeals and shrivels, inexplicably untouched. Crowe – who gave the world such d...

DATE: May 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: Hot Pursuit

“Hot Pursuit,” starring Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara, joins a long line of derivative, lazily written one-offs looking to cash in on the success of the movies they brazenly rip off, i...

DATE: May 7, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Review: The Hunting Ground

DATE: Apr 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming