Movie Reviews

Biopic About Nat Turner Is A Success At Sundance Film Festival

6:49am January 27, 2016

The Birth of a Nation, directed, written, produced and starring Nate Parker, received an overwhelming response at the premiere. Renee Montagne talks to Justin Chang, chief film critic for Variety.

Sundance Favorites: 'Manchester By The Sea' And 'Eagle Huntress'

8:18am January 26, 2016

Steve Inskeep talks to film critic Kenneth Turan about some of the movies we should watch for coming out of this year's Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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Strange science is afoot in Synchronicity.

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'Synchronicity': Sci-Fi That Smells Like More Than It Is

7:53pm January 21, 2016

by Scott Tobias

It wants to be a Blade Runner-inflected noir, but Synchronicity does nothing with its femme fatale and is disappointingly repetitive of other, better films.

Oscar Isaac plays a drifter named Jack in the new film Mojave.

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'Mojave': At Least The Desert Is Good-Looking

5:00pm January 21, 2016

by Ella Taylor

Mojave wastes a hirsute Oscar Isaac and a nice twangy guitar on an insufferable neo-noir about a Hollywood director followed a little too closely by a stranger.

Cuzin Toma (Carfin), Mihai Comānoiu (Ionitā) and Teodor Corban (Costandin) of Aferim!

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'Aferim!' May Be Romania's 'Hateful Eight'

5:00pm January 21, 2016

by Mark Jenkins

Critic Mark Jenkins finds parallels between Quentin Tarantino's snowbound revisionist Western and this story of a constable and his son in search of an escaped slave.

Chloë Grace Moretz and Nick Robinson star in Columbia Pictures' "The 5th Wave."

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The Disappointment Invades In 'The 5th Wave'

5:00pm January 21, 2016

by Andrew Lapin

Chloe Grace Moretz stars in this possible franchise-starter about a teenage girl pitted against an invading alien horde. You know, the usual.

Gone with the Wind has sold more than 200 million tickets — most of them back when there were far fewer people on the planet.

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Superlatives Notwithstanding, Even 'The Force' Has Its Limits

6:00pm January 18, 2016

by Bob Mondello

NPR film critic Bob Mondello's been listening to the Star Wars hype train. Here's why he isn't climbing aboard.

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Movie Review: '13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi'

6:23pm January 15, 2016

David Greene talks to Justin Chang, chief film critic for Variety, about 13 Hours — the new movie about the 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.

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Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hateful Eight.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'The Hateful Eight' And Theatrical Experiences

11:41am January 15, 2016

by Linda Holmes

This week's show is all about Tarantino's latest, how to sit at the movies, digital and film, and what's making us happy this week.

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John Krasinski plays Jack Silva in a scene from 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.

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'13 Hours' Finds Fodder For Action, But Not Thought, In Recent History

5:00pm January 14, 2016

by Scott Tobias

Director Michael Bay makes no effort to put history in context in dramatizing the 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi; he treats it as a setting for rah-rah action.