Movies
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'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' missed a huge opportunity
Dec 26, 2015 4:00 am - SPOILER ALERT: This column discusses the plot of “Star Wars The Force Awakens” in significant detail. If I couldn't feel precisely the same sense of transportation that ...
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Steve Carell hopes you want to throw up after seeing 'The Big Short'Dec 25, 2015 6:24 am - Like its subject matter, "The Big Short" is hard to describe. Based on Michael Lewis' best-selling 2010 nonfiction book about a small group of money managers who made mi...
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It's comedy vs. step-comedy in erratic 'Daddy's Home'Dec 25, 2015 4:45 am - It might sound odd to compliment a silly Will Ferrell comedy for its restraint, but here goes: Sean Anders' "Daddy's Home" shows such unusual restraint in its use of st...
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Widescreen's top pop-culture moments of 2015Dec 24, 2015 6:18 am - That Forceful movie sure lived up to the hype, didn't it? "Star Wars" turned out to be the funny, emotional icing on 2015's pop-culture cake, a delicious concoction that...
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'Star Wars' trailers vs. what ended up in the filmDec 24, 2015 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES - J.J. Abrams never intended to guide "Star Wars" fans in the wrong direction. The writer-director says - spoiler alert! - that while trailers for "Star Wars...
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Reel life: Larson, DiCaprio give year's best performancesDec 24, 2015 5:30 am - The best of 2015 films My top 10 movies of 2015 will be published in Sunday's Time out! section. Meanwhile, here are other selected bests of the year in films: Best act...
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Great performances drive romance in 'Carol'Dec 23, 2015 10:00 am - We first see Carol when Therese, a young sales clerk, spots her across the busy floor of a New York department store in 1952. Carol, several years older than Therese, ap...
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'Star Wars' named Associated Press Entertainer of the Year
Dec 23, 2015 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES - "Star Wars" isn't just strong. It's unstoppable. The revival of the nearly 40-year-old space saga has already dominated the box office and toy shelves. Now...
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Jennifer Lawrence movie falls short of 'Joy'Dec 23, 2015 5:00 am - There's not much joy in David O. Russell's movie until Bradley Cooper enters the story as QVC TV network executive Neil Walker. Up to then, the story about how a young, ...
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Tarantino goes vile, vile West for 'Hateful Eight'Dec 23, 2015 4:30 am - In Quentin Tarantino's nihilistic Western murder mystery "The Hateful Eight," killer cowboys chew and spit words the way baseball players expectorate tobacco wads. When ...