Movies
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'Allied' feels forced, despite A-list starsNov 20, 2016 10:00 pm - In the War II romance "Allied," Robert Zemeckis has resurrected the espionage thriller in all its classical glamour with a knowingness that's both impressively grand and...
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'Moana' a lushly visualized Walt Disney musical adventureNov 20, 2016 10:00 pm - Just when you think Walt Disney's animators couldn't possibly match 2016's earlier imaginative trip to the fantastic "Zootopia," now comes "Moana," a contemporary musica...
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Miles Teller comes back swinging in 'Bleed for This'Nov 20, 2016 6:23 am - LOS ANGELES - By his count, Miles Teller has done 13 films in the past five years - four of them came out this year alone. Suffice it to say, the 29-year-old actor is ab...
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'Fantastic Beasts' spins magic, 'Billy Lynn's' tanks
Nov 20, 2016 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES - Harry Potter spinoff "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" cast a spell over audiences in its debut, summoning $75 million according to studio estimate...
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'Elle' blazes a dark, unsettling pathNov 18, 2016 5:00 am - "Inverted flame combustion." That's the kind of heat generated by a self-made furnace that makes a late cameo in Paul Verhoeven's highly flammable "Elle," a violently da...
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Boxing cliches knock out formulaic 'Bleed for This'Nov 17, 2016 5:00 am - “Bleed for This” is the latest boxing movie to pass through theaters, despite a waning interest in the sport. You know the formula: the underdog hero, the “Rocky”-esque ...
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Harsh comic edge gives 'Seventeen' adolescent honestyNov 17, 2016 5:00 am - "There are two types of people in life," high school junior Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld) observes. "The people who naturally excel at life. And the people who hope all thos...
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Ang Lee's problematic 'Billy Lynn's' still radiates wow!Nov 17, 2016 5:00 am - Groundbreaking cinematic technology provides the chief raison d'être for Ang Lee's pro-soldier/anti-war, character study/combat movie "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk." ...
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Sadistic clarity makes 'Nocturnal Animals' an intense, stylish thrillerNov 17, 2016 5:00 am - Acts of the imagination can unsettle, disgust and frighten us, even wound us - not in the flesh, but in the psyche - just as surely as actual ones. Occasionally, they al...
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'Boom Bust Boom' offers seriously comic look at why crashes happenNov 16, 2016 10:00 pm - The 2015 documentary "Boom Bust Boom" by Terry Jones of "Monty Python" fame explores the instability of our economic system - and offers a solution. It will be shown at ...