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'Detroit' Dramatizes A Deadly '67 Motel Encounter Between Police And Civilians

2:23pm July 28, 2017

by David Edelstein

Kathryn Bigelow recreates a true, largely forgotten incident of brutality in her latest film. Critic David Edelstein says Detroit triggers a sense of powerlessness that is visceral.

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Dane DeHaan stars as Major Valerian in Luc Besson's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets'

6:00am July 28, 2017

by Glen Weldon

We discuss Luc Besson's big-budget, bonkers-bananapants would-be blockbuster Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, which looks unlikely to bust any blocks.

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Movie Reviews: 'Atomic Blonde,' 'Detroit'

5:13am July 28, 2017

Rachel Martin talks with film reviewer Claudia Puig about two very different movies opening this week: Atomic Blonde, starring Charlize Theron, and Kathryn Bigelow's Detroit, about the 1967 riots.

In 2006, Al Gore issued a forceful warning about the threat of climate change in An Inconvenient Truth. More than a decade later, he's followed it up with An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.

'An Inconvenient Sequel' Is An Effective, Cautiously Optimistic, 'I Told You So'

6:25pm July 27, 2017

by Bob Mondello

In 2006, Al Gore issued a forceful warning about the threat of climate change in An Inconvenient Truth. He's followed it up with a sequel that shows how far we've come — but with plenty of caveats.

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'Brigsby Bear': Do Not Adjust Your (Mind) Set

5:12pm July 27, 2017

by Andrew Lapin

A gawky young man (SNL's Kyle Mooney) raised in isolation re-enters the world — but can't let go of his obsession with his favorite TV show in this quirky, imaginative little film.

Menashe Lustig as Menashe, a grocery store clerk fighting to maintain custody of his son Rieven (Ruben Niborski).

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'Menashe': A Hasid Grows In Brooklyn

5:00pm July 27, 2017

by Ella Taylor

This sweetly funny tale of a recently widowed Orthodox Jew struggling to care for his son offers a humane and sympathetic view of life in a Hasidic enclave.

Agent Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) sees red in Atomic Blonde.

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'Atomic Blonde' Is A Blast

5:00pm July 27, 2017

by Scott Tobias

"It may be style over substance," says critic Scott Tobias of this spy thriller starring a butt-kicking Charlize Theron, "but wow what style!"

Rose-Drunk Love: Marion Cotillard as Gabrielle in Nicole Garcia's From The Land of The Moon.

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Love, Lust And Languor In 'From The Land Of The Moon'

5:00pm July 27, 2017

by Mark Jenkins

Marion Cotillard stars as a woman infatuated with infatuation in this "shadowy and sensuous" tale that undercuts its power with an unearned third-act revelation.

(L to R) Dina (Tiffany Haddish), Ryan (Regina Hall), Sasha (Queen Latifah) and Lisa (Jada Pinkett Smith) paint the town red (and Bourbon Street yellow) in Girls Trip.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Girls Trip'

11:24am July 26, 2017

by Glen Weldon

The "surprising" success of the raunch-com Girls Trip didn't particularly surprise us; we talk about precisely where this "out-of-nowhere" hit came from.

Tom Hardy plays a Royal Air Force pilot in the new Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Dunkirk'

4:49pm July 21, 2017

by Linda Holmes

Christopher Nolan's war drama about the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Allied troops has immediacy, scope, and a sense of the unique terrors inherent in war.