Movie Reviews

Ron (John David Washington) and Patrice (Laura Harrier) strike power poses in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman.

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Spike Lee Checks Under The Hood In The Blistering 'BlacKkKlansman'

9:00pm August 09, 2018

by Bob Mondello

Critic Bob Mondello calls Spike Lee's latest, about a black cop who infiltrates the Klan in the '70s, "his most ferociously entertaining (and just plain ferocious) film in years."

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Madeline (Helena Howard, L) and Evangeline (Molly Parker, R) share a moment in Madeline's Madeline.

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'Madeline's Madeline': In This Acting Class, Dreams, Darkness and Dance Come Together

5:01pm August 09, 2018

by Andrew Lapin

A teenaged girl's acting class intersects with her home life in bracing, and not entirely healthy ways, in Josephine Decker's intimate, audacious and wildly experimental film.

Dax (Adam Pally) and friend/comforter in Dog Days.

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'Dog Days' Is Shaggy But Lovable

5:00pm August 09, 2018

by Scott Tobias

Ken Marino directs this conventional if disjointed ensemble rom-com about disparate Los Angeles dog owners. The film finds its legs whenever it leans into its alt-comedy cast and cameos.

She Prefers To Be Called "The Peggy": Jonas (Jason Statham, obviously) reflects the audience's incredulity in The Meg.

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Shark, Weak: Toothless 'The Meg' Snatches Mediocrity From The Jaws Of Defeat

5:00pm August 09, 2018

by Chris Klimek

It's a "somewhat self-aware, mildly sci-fi tinged, numbingly unimaginative watering down ... of a genre landmark, relocated to Asia and aimed squarely at the world's largest movie market: China."

Review: 'The Miseducation Of Cameron Post'

5:21pm August 03, 2018

by Bob Mondello

A review of The Miseducation of Cameron Posta film about gay-conversion therapies, starring Chloe Grace Moretz.

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International women of mystery Aubrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon) in The Spy Who Dumped Me.

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'The Spy Who Dumped Me': Man, They Could Have Done This Better

5:00pm August 02, 2018

by Chris Klimek

Kate McKinnon is dependably great, but this overlong and shaggily plotted action-comedy never generates enough laughs or surprises to make it anything more than an "August time-waster."

Out, But Looking In: Cameron Post (Chloë Grace Moretz) don't need no miseducation in The Miseducation of Cameron Post.

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'The Miseducation Of Cameron Post': Lesbian, Interrupted

5:00pm August 02, 2018

by Ella Taylor

Chloë Grace Moretz plays a queer teenager shipped off to a conversion therapy camp in this even-handed if occasionally sluggish film that won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.

In Christopher Robin, Ewan McGregor goes into the woods today; he's in for a big surprise.

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In The Sticky-Sweet 'Christopher Robin,' Pooh Happens

5:00pm August 02, 2018

by Andrew Lapin

A grown-up Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) returns to his childhood chums in the Hundred Acre Wood in Marc Forster's rote but charmingly animated children's film.

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Documentary Reveals The 'Secret History' Of Hollywood Pimp Scotty Bowers

2:52pm August 02, 2018

by David Edelstein

A veteran of World War II, Bowers bought a gas station on Hollywood Boulevard in 1946 and began arranging trysts for stars. A new documentary that's "as sympathetic as it is lurid" tells his story.

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Summer Movies: 'Searching' And 'The Spy Who Dumped Me'

5:16am August 01, 2018

Rachel Martin talks with film reviewer Claudia Puig about the two new movies that caught her eye: Searching and The Spy Who Dumped Me.