Movie Reviews

A spry 52 when the film was shot, Tom Cruise — still his own stuntman — careens a motorcycle, sans helmet, around a winding Moroccan highway at suicide-miles-per-hour.

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'Rogue Nation' Fulfills The Mission Of A Reliable Blockbuster Series

1:49pm July 31, 2015

by Chris Klimek

Tom Cruise returns as secret agent Ethan Hunt in the latest Mission: Impossible -- a super-fun sequel executed with rigor, clarity, and creative use of Puccini's Turandot.

Jesse Eisenberg (left) plays journalist David Lipsky and Jason Segel plays David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour.

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'The End Of The Tour' Is A Film For David Foster Wallace Buffs

1:44pm July 31, 2015

by Mark Jenkins

The movie, which draws from journalist David Lipsky's interviews with Wallace in 1996, offers an intriguing (if not altogether convincing) portrait of the Infinite Jest author.

In 1968, ABC paired two pundits from opposite ends of the political spectrum — William F. Buckley Jr. (left) and Gore Vidal — for a cut-throat intellectual faceoff. The documentary Best of Enemies explores this media milestone.

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In 1968, The 'Best Of Enemies' Faced Off In A Brutal, Televised Feud

1:15pm July 31, 2015

by Ella Taylor

ABC paired two pundits from opposite ends of the political spectrum — William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal — in a series of debates. A new documentary explores the legacy of this war of words.

Movie Review: 'Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation'

11:18am July 31, 2015

by Kenneth Turan

The Mission Impossible franchise has been good to Tom Cruise — raking in more than $2 billion in world-wide box office receipts. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation is the fifth film in the series.

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'The End of the Tour' Offers A Hint Of David Foster Wallace's Inner Struggle

5:20pm July 30, 2015

by David Edelstein

A new film revisits a five-day interview that took place between writer David Foster Wallace and a reporter for Rolling Stone in 1996. Critic David Edelstein calls it a "very good movie."

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'A Gay Girl' Who Was Not What She Seemed

1:53am July 25, 2015

by Mark Jenkins

A new documentary looks at a blog ostensibly written by a Syrian woman that turned out to have an entirely different origin story.

Nat Wolff and Margo Cara Delevingne in Paper Towns.

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Emotional Maps And 'Paper Towns'

2:37pm July 24, 2015

by Andrew Lapin

The film adaptation of YA superstar John Green's novel is an uneven but intermittently affecting story about a disappearing girl and the boy who looks for her.

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A Holocaust Survivor Searches For Her Past In Christian Petzold's 'Phoenix'

1:21pm July 24, 2015

by David Edelstein

A concentration camp survivor seeks a reunion with the husband who may have betrayed her in a new film set in post-war Berlin. Critic David Edelstein calls Phoenix a "morbidly romantic drama."

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Amy Schumer and Bill Hader in Trainwreck.

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Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Trainwreck' And 'Ant-Man'

9:42am July 24, 2015

by Linda Holmes

This week brings two summer movies into our field of vision: an unconventional romantic comedy and a shrunken (in the good way) superhero adventure.

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'Southpaw' Throws Some Familiar Punches

7:56am July 24, 2015

by Kenneth Turan

The Los Angeles Times and Morning Edition film critic, Kenneth Turan, reviews "Southpaw," a new movie about a boxing champion starring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Antoine Fuqua.

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