Movie Reviews

Anya Taylor-Joy stars the title character in director Autumn de Wilde's new adaptation of Emma.

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New 'Emma' Is A Frosted Cupcake Come To Life (In A Good Way)

1:41pm February 20, 2020

by Justin Chang

Autumn de Wilde's adaptation of the Jane Austen classic is as clever and rich as its famous heroine — in part, because its actors are so good at finding fresh nuances in this timeless material.

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'And Then We Danced' Is A Vivid Story Of Forbidden Love, Set To A Familiar Groove

11:32am February 14, 2020

by Justin Chang

In Tbilisi, Georgia, two male dancers in the national dance ensemble embark on a secret love affair. It's a fairly straightforward drama of first love — enhanced by the vitality of the setting.

He has a very particular set of coping skills: Tom (Liam Neeson) and Joan (Lesley Manville) face her cancer diagnosis together in Ordinary Love.

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'Ordinary Love': Scenes From A Marriage Touched By Cancer

5:00pm February 13, 2020

by Ella Taylor

Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson bring a wry, lived-in tenderness to this "imperfect but affecting" tale of a long-married couple facing cancer together.

Kathy (Judy Greer) looks concerned, a thing Judy Greer does a lot in movies, in Buffaloed.

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'Buffaloed': Debt Collecting For Fun And Profit

5:00pm February 13, 2020

by Mark Jenkins

Peg (Zoey Deutch) goes into the debt-collection business in a comedy that focuses so narrowly on its self-absorbed main character that the world around her fades to obscurity.

Michael (LaKeith Stanfield) and Mae (Issa Rae) look picture-perfect in The Photograph.

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Romantic Drama 'The Photograph' Is Unfocused

5:00pm February 13, 2020

by Scott Tobias

Stars Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield have great chemistry, but this earnest romantic drama feels "curiously flat and under-seasoned."

Oscar statues are displayed at the 2007 "Meet the Oscars" event on February 12, 2007 in New York City.

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Oscars 2020: A Podcast Playlist For The Best Picture Nominees

7:00am February 08, 2020

Listen to Pop Culture Happy Hour's coverage of 1917, Parasite, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and more.

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'Beanpole' Captures The Devastation That Lingers, Even After War Has Ended

1:35pm February 07, 2020

by Justin Chang

Set in Leningrad shortly after World War II, Beanpole centers on two women who find themselves deeply scarred by their wartime experiences with the Red Army.

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Steppe Up: Irakli (Bachi Valishvili) and Merab (Levan Gelbakhiani) share a moment between dance moves in And Then We Danced.

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'And Then We Danced': Queer As Folk Dance

11:10am February 07, 2020

by Scott Tobias

Levan Akin's tale of two male Georgian dancers who find happiness in stolen moments together goes through all the usual dance-movie paces, but the chemistry between its two leads is strong.

Lunatic, Fringe: Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) finds a whole new, non-suicidal squad in Birds of Prey.

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'Birds Of Prey' Is A Fun, Fast, Feathery Mess

5:01pm February 06, 2020

by Glen Weldon

Like its main character Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Birds of Prey is frenetic and wildly uneven — but the bone-crunching fight scenes zip by so fast it never wears out its welcome.

A Super-Assassin Named Stephanie: Blake Lively looks pensive in The Rhythm Section.

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'The Rhythm Section' Misses A Beat

5:00pm January 30, 2020

by Mark Jenkins

Stephanie (Blake Lively) trains to become a super-assassin to avenge the murder of her parents in this well-paced, well-directed, but poorly scripted Bond knockoff.