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Sterling K. Brown plays the patriarch of a family in crisis in Waves.

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A Florida Family Saga, Told In 'Waves' Of Healing And Heartache

12:13pm November 15, 2019

by Justin Chang

Life doesn't go according to plan for the family at the center of this wrenching drama. But while Waves doesn't peddle easy redemption, it does offer what feels like a state of grace.

The royal We may not be amused, but you will be: Olivia Colman is Elizabeth in The Crown Season 3.

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'The Crown' Gets A Fresh Polish

8:03am November 15, 2019

by Glen Weldon

The cast has changed, but the formula — i.e., heavy hangs the (figure)head that wears the crown — remains comfortingly intact.

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A Surfing Marriage Proposal

5:23am November 15, 2019

Chris Garth brought his girlfriend back to the Waikiki beach where they first met. He asked her to marry him just as the two surfers were catching a wave. He lost the ring but had a backup.

In The Report, Adam Driver plays staffer following the CIA's paper trail of post-9/11 detention and interrogation tactics.

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'The Report': A 7,000-Page Government Study, Brought To Vivid, Horrifying Life

5:00pm November 14, 2019

by Mark Jenkins

Both didactic and engrossing, director Scott Z. Burns' film about the investigation into post-9/11 CIA interrogation techniques stars Adam Driver as an idealistic Senate staffer.

Breakin' up is hard to do in Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story, starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver.

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A Couple Faces The Painful End Of The Line In 'Marriage Story'

5:00pm November 14, 2019

by Linda Holmes

Noah Baumbach draws on excellent performances from Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson in a drama about a wrenching divorce.

Matt Damon stars as an American car designer in Ford v Ferrari.

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'Ford v Ferrari' Will Get Your Heart Racing

5:00pm November 14, 2019

by Ella Taylor

Matt Damon and Christian Bale star in the story of Ford's attempt to create a car that will best Ferrari at Le Mans in this "rollicking" "wildly entertaining" film.

In Bill Condon's The Good Liar, Roy (Ian McKellan) targets widow (Helen Mirren) and her extensive fortune.

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'The Good Liar,' The Con Is A Pro — As Expected

5:00pm November 14, 2019

by Andrew Lapin

In Bill Condon's film set among London's septuagenarian set, Ian McKellan attempts to con Helen Mirren out of her fortune, but we're always one step ahead of the story.

Elizabeth Banks directs the reboot of Charlie's Angel featuring Ella Balinska (from left), Kristen Stewart and Naomi Scott — and a whole bunch of wigs.

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In A Rote, Rebooted 'Charlie's Angels,' Only Kristen Stewart Earns Her Wings

5:00pm November 14, 2019

by Scott Tobias

Writer-director Elizabeth Banks' take on the franchise plays "like a campy, under-budgeted 'Mission: Impossible,' " that loses momentum whenever Stewart is off-screen.

In 'A Warning,' An Invisible Hand Rings A Somber Alarm

1:23pm November 14, 2019

by Ron Elving

President Trump, we are told in this soon-to-be-published book, has destroyed the guardrails thoughtful people tried to erect around him. Further, he has banished nearly all those thoughtful people.

Behrouz Boochani, seen last year at the Australian detention center on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, where the Kurdish-Iranian asylum-seeker spent years seeking his freedom. On Thursday, the prize-winning author touched down in New Zealand on his way to

'I Am Happy Because I Survived': Refugee Writer Is Free After Years In Detention

1:13pm November 14, 2019

by Colin Dwyer

Behrouz Boochani won Australia's richest literary prize earlier this year — but the asylum-seeker, detained offshore, couldn't accept in person. Now, he has made it to New Zealand with a message.