A rom-com parody for people who hate rom-coms (but also secretly love them)
The comic actress Rebel Wilson makes any movie better — and frequently steals the show. She did it in “Pitch Perfect,” among many other films in which she plays the second lead, with a combination of oddball line readings, out-of-left-field reactions and inspired slapstick. Finally,
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A Liam Neeson action comedy with emphasis on the comedy
On the surface, “Cold Pursuit” might look like another one of those Liam Neeson thrillers a la the “Taken” franchise and “Unknown” and “The Commuter” and “Non-Stop,” in which our man plays a happily married regular fella with a seemingly ordinary and perfectly normal life,
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Reilly and Coogan shine in sweet-natured, thoroughly entertaining biopic
We often talk about how stars can disappear beneath makeup and prosthetics and padding and wardrobe, to the point where they’re virtually unrecognizable. If nobody told you who was playing Dick Cheney in “Vice,” would you have guessed Christian Bale? What about Gary Oldman as
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High profile trilogy-ender is both overwrought and undercooked
“I’m the mastermind,” one of the characters declares during the climax of “Glass,” and it’s in that moment you wonder if you’re looking right into the soul of writer/director M. Night Shyamalan. “Glass” is the third installment in the surprise “Unbreakable” trilogy, coming hot on
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The best Spider-Man movie yet and one of the best films of 2018
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” is the best “Spider-Man” movie yet, the best animated film of the year, and one of the best 2018 films of any kind, period. Bursting with comic-book vibrant colors, peppered with clever visual touches and crackling good inside jokes, and featuring
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Exquisite adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel set in 1971 Harlem
Barry Jenkins’ searing and sharp and gripping “If Beale Street Could Talk” is set in the Harlem of 1971, and indeed there are moments when we smile at the pop-culture touchstones, from the fashion to the cars to the vibe of the time. But we
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Christian Bale brings his “A” game, but structurally this film is a mess
Christian Bale brings his “A” game, his “Z” game and everything in between to “Vice,” in which he inhabits former Vice President Dick Cheney down to his distinctive, sideways grimace and wheezily stentorian inhalations — vocal stylings that helped forge Cheney’s instantly recognizable image as
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Inspired by true events, “Green Book” gets its name from “The Negro Motorist Green Book,” a mid-20th-century guidebook with a state-by-state listing of gas stations, restaurants and motels that would serve black travelers. “The Green Book” comes into play here because the year is 1962,
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At the center of the long-gestating Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” is the kind of performance that’s less acting than it is the channeling of a spirit from another realm. Rami Malek takes to the role of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury with a studious intensity, making
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