Movie Reviews

'Avengers: Endgame' Brings Marvel Saga To Close With Epic Three-Hour Film

6:59pm April 25, 2019

by Bob Mondello

With most of the Marvel superheroes turned to dust in the last Avengers movie — along with half the universe — Avengers: Endgame brings the Marvel saga to a close in an epic three-hour film.

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Kristen Stewart plays a real-life literary fraud in JT LeRoy.

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'JT LeRoy': An Infamous Literary Fraud, Seen Through The Eyes Of The Fraudsters

5:00pm April 25, 2019

by Andrew Lapin

Laura Dern and Kristin Stewart star in the real-life tale of a frustrated author who created a false identity that captivated the literary world.

Be Natural:The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché tells the story of the first female film auteur.

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Auteur! Auteur!: 'Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché'

5:00pm April 25, 2019

by Scott Tobias

Pamela D. Green's enlightening documentary adds to the already strong case that Guy-Blaché was the first female auteur of cinema, though in doing so it strives to connect a few too many dots.

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'Avengers: Endgame' Is A Thrilling (If Exhausting) Journey Through Time

2:00pm April 25, 2019

by Justin Chang

As the grand finale of 22 tightly interconnected movies, Endgame brings this chapter of the saga to a stirring and resonant close. Critic Justin Chang says it's one of Marvel's better pictures.

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I ... was Iron Man: A stranded-in-space Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) shares a somber moment with his suit's A.I.

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Mourning Has Broken Them: 'Avengers: Endgame'

12:34pm April 24, 2019

by Glen Weldon

The culmination of the Avengers franchise proves a remarkably intimate and somber affair until it concludes with a climactic battle more thrilling than anything superhero cinema has delivered to date.

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'Long Day's Journey Into Night' Astonishes With Technical Achievement

1:29pm April 19, 2019

by Justin Chang

Chinese writer-director Bi Gan's new film centers on a former casino owner haunted by the memory of a woman from his past. It features a 59-minute sequence, shot in a single take and converted to 3-D.

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Gina Rodriguez, DeWanda Wise and Brittany Snow star in Someone Great.

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In 'Someone Great,' The Greatest Someone Might Be Your Best Pal

12:01pm April 19, 2019

by Linda Holmes

Gina Rodriguez stars in Someone Great, a Netflix comedy that follows three friends trying to have one last adventure before everything changes for good.

Under the Silver Lake is the newest film from David Robert Mitchell, who directed 2015's It Follows.

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In Pulpy L.A. Noir 'Under The Silver Lake,' A Man Chases Signs And Portents

5:00pm April 18, 2019

by Danny Hensel

There's a lot of flash and less substance in writer/director David Robert Mitchell's tale of a young man (Andrew Garfield) who sees hidden clues everywhere. But that flash is lovingly executed.

Lily James and Tessa Thompson play sisters struggling to stay afloat in Little Woods.

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'Little Woods' Is Grimly Lovely — Dark And Deep

5:00pm April 18, 2019

by Ella Taylor

Two sisters (Lily James, Tessa Thompson) struggle to navigate the opioid crisis in their small town. Nia DaCosta's first film is a "quietly feminist thriller" that's "modest but intensely empathetic."

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'Hail Satan?': Documentary Examines Protest Group That Bedevils Religious Conservatives

5:00pm April 18, 2019

by Andrew Lapin

The film spotlights the Satanic Temple, an organization that stages wry publicity stunts to underscore the separation of church and state. The doc "makes for an electric modern theological debate."