CREATIVE CONTROL Opening Friday Ever get the feeling that something truly sinister is simmering quietly beneath our brave new world of digital technology? The dark sci-fi drama Creative Control thinks so, too.
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Movie Review: Deadpool Is Spider-Man But With Nudity, Gore and No Fourth Wall
Deadpool ★★ ½ Now playing With the irreverent action comedy Deadpool, Marvel Entertainment jumps headfirst into the hard-R end of the comic-book movie spectrum. The results are mixed. The good news is that the film is better than the trailers suggest—largely because the best jokes are far too filthy to put in general-audience previews. The […]
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Movie review: Real-life maritime rescue story The Finest Hours is Disneyfied disaster porn
The Finest Hours★★★ Now playing On February 18, 1952, a massive nor’easter crashed upon the New England coastline with colossal waves and gale-force winds. The storm was so powerful that not one but two massive oil tankers split in half off the coast of Cape Cod. With four separate floating husks in the water—and four […]
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Movie review: Academy Award-nominated Drama Mustang Is Like a Turkish The Virgin Suicides
Mustang★★★★ Now playingMustang has been compared to Sofia Coppola’s debut, The Virgin Suicides, with good reason. Like that 1999 film, this Turkish drama tells the story of five teenage sisters coming of age in a repressive home with a tone of aching melancholy. The Virgin Suicides takes place in suburban Detroit in the 1970s, while […]
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Movie review: The awful, ugly Dirty Grandpa is the comedy equivalent of torture porn
Dirty Grandpa ★ Now playingDirty Grandpa is easily the worst movie of the new year so far, and it will surely be a strong contender at the end of the year, too. In fact, in the dizzying moments after being bludgeoned by this miserable specimen, I was convinced it’s among the worst movies ever made. […]
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Movie review: J.J. Abrams potently remixes a modern myth for a new generation in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Star Wars: The Force Awakens★★★★Opening wide Friday Remember the moment near the end of the original Star Wars when Luke Skywalker piloted his X-wing through a last-ditch run on the Death Star, turning off his targeting computer to rely on the Force instead? That’s what director J.J. Abrams does with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, […]
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Movie review: Suffragette is a fiery political thriller disguised as a British prestige picture
Suffragette ★★★★ Now playing Those expecting a proper period piece will be sorely disappointed by Suffragette, a restless and angry drama that sometimes plays out like a violent political thriller. The film is set in London, eight years before the 19th Amendment was ratified in the U.S., at the moment when the women’s suffrage movement […]
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He Named Me Malala unfolds the incredible true story of a Pakistani teenager turned world leader
HE NAMED ME MALALA Opening Friday Malala Yousafzai, the teenage Pakistani activist who was shot by the Taliban in 2012, is now an international media figure (you might know her as Jon Stewart’s favorite The Daily Show guest), Nobel laureate and bona fide world leader. Her story is so compelling and extreme that it’s easy […]
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Movie review: Apollo 13 meets Cast Away in sci-fi master Ridley Scott’s The Martian
The Martian ★★★ ½ Now playing With its earnest discussions of orbital velocities and hexadecimal alphabets, director Ridley Scott’s The Martian is one nerdy-ass science fiction movie—in a good way. Matt Damon headlines as astronaut Mark Watney, a biologist on the Ares III manned mission to Mars. In a recognizable near future, NASA is properly […]
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