Movie Reviews

Cate Blanchett stars as Bernadette Fox, a once-legendary architect who hasn't built anything in decades, in Where'd You Go, Bernadette.

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'Bernadette' Is A Stirring Tribute To A Woman Rediscovering Her True Calling

2:05pm August 16, 2019

by Justin Chang

Where'd You Go, Bernadette follows a brilliant architect who, in the midst of a decades-long career slump, disappears to recapture her life's passion in the unlikeliest place imaginable.

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Bollywood Meets Bruce Springsteen In 'Blinded By The Light'

6:22am August 16, 2019

NPR's David Greene talks to movie reviewer Kenneth Turan about Blinded by the Light, which takes place in late 1980s England as an Anglo-Pakistani teenager finds solace in Bruce Springsteen's music.

Come on, rise up! Blinded by the Light follows first-generation British teen Javed (Viveik Kalra, center) as he discovers hope and Bruce Springsteen in 1980s Britain.

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Mawkish 'Blinded By The Light' Wears Its Too-Hungry Heart On Its Sleeve

5:14pm August 15, 2019

by Chris Klimek

Film critic/Springsteen superfan Chris Klimek says Gurinder Chadha's film about a British-Pakistani kid who finds inspiration in The Boss's music is affected and cloying.

Two strangers uncover a mutual, lost history amid the heat of a Barcelona summer in Julio Castro's feature debut, End of the Century.

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'End Of The Century': When Sex With A Stranger ... Isn't, Quite

5:01pm August 15, 2019

by Danny Hensel

Julio Castro's tale of two men who hook up in Barcelona, only to realize they'd shared a similar encounter 20 years before, is full of big ideas bogged down by "mushy drama."

Good Boys is a raunch-filled, F-bomb-laden, almost-coming-of-age comedy directed by Gene Stupnitsky and produced by (shocker) Seth Rogen.

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In Sweet, Funny 'Good Boys,' Tweens Don't Lose Their Innocence — They Just Misplace It

5:00pm August 15, 2019

by Scott Tobias

What could have been a cringeworthy misfire of tweens fumbling toward sex instead turns into a winning comedy that gets the sweetness-to-raunch ratio miraculously right.

Danish journalist and TV personality Mads Brügger is on the hunt for evidence in this comic documentary about the 1961 death of United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld.

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An Unreliable Narrator, A Trail Colder Than Pickled Herring: 'Cold Case Hammarskjöld'

5:00pm August 15, 2019

by Ella Taylor

Conspiracy theories abound in this literally incredible documentary, in which an eccentric Danish journalist sets out to prove that Dag Hammarskjöld's 1961 plane crash was no accident.

Beekeeper Hatidze Muratova lives in a ruggedly mountainous area of Macedonia. She has a simple rule: When you harvest honey, you only take half — and leave the other half for the bees.

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The Beekeeper Of 'Honeyland' Knows All Too Well: Respect Nature, Or Get Stung

12:41pm August 12, 2019

by John Powers

Hatidze Muratova lives in a remote area of Macedonia and has one simple rule: When you harvest honey, you take half — and leave the other half for the bees. An elegant new documentary tells her story.

Chicken or Beef? Michelle Williams (left) and Julianne Moore (right) star in After the Wedding, a gender-swapped remake of an Oscar-nominated 2006 Danish drama.

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'After The Wedding' There'll Be Dinner, Dancing And Dire Revelations

5:00pm August 08, 2019

by Mark Jenkins

Bart Freundlich's gender-flipped remake of a twisty Danish film is glossy, slick and strangely sedate.

Hell(s Kitchen) hath no fury like a mob wife scorned: (L-R) Elisabeth Moss, Tiffany Haddish, and Melissa McCarthy star in New Line Cinema's drama The Kitchen.

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In The Overwritten, Undercooked 'The Kitchen,' Mob Wives Are Doin' It For Themselves

5:00pm August 08, 2019

by Kyle Turner

Andrea Berloff adapts a comics miniseries about mob wives taking over their jailed husbands' rackets; it's at its best once the stilted, speechifying dialogue settles down, and the pulpiness kicks in.

Guillermo del Toro produced and co-wrote this screen adaptation of the classic kid's horror anthology.

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'Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark' Puts The BOO! In Book Adaptation

5:00pm August 08, 2019

by Andrew Lapin

Alvin Schwartz's beloved children's books become an atmospheric, if repetitive, kid-friendly horror film.