New Releases
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Justice League (2017, Dir. Zack Snyder): Popcorn comic book movies versus mundo-serious graphic novel films. Slick, likable product versus overwrought mythologizing. High Rotten Tomato meter scores versus negative word of…
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Kenneth Branagh's new version of "Murder on the Orient Express" tries to marry the story's old-world glamor with Shakespearean pathos.
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In "Thor: Ragnarok," Marvel's Thor series finally fulfills its destiny as goofy, lunk-headed entertainment -- but is this destiny all that fulfilling?
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"Blade Runner 2047" is visually impressive and sincere in its sci-fi, but does it recapture the enigmatic style of the original "Blade Runner"?
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The Big Sick (2017, Dir. Michael Showalter): “Love isn’t easy. That’s why they call it love,” says Ray Romano in the new romantic comedy The Big Sick, and the line…
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Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017, Dir. Jon Watts): The Marvel movie universe has been burdened by franchise-building, character cross-overs, and “more is more” bloat for so long that the offhanded trifle that is Spider-Man:…
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Wonder Woman (2017, Dir. Patty Jenkins): The original Wonder Woman comics were very much of their time. It can be read as coincidence, or fate, that her first appearance came…
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Back in the ’80s, two wise old rock stars said, “There’s a fine line between clever and stupid.” Not only did the first Guardians of the Galaxy flirt with stupidity…
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Logan (2017, Dir. James Mangold): Seventeen years and nine films — that’s how long Hugh Jackman has owned the role of Logan (aka The Wolverine), gruffest and most feral of…
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Kong: Skull Island (2017, Dir. Jordan Vogt-Roberts): “Monsters exist.” So says obsessed millionaire Bill Randa (John Goodman) halfway through Kong: Skull Island, and is there really anything more that needs to…