Movie Reviews

In The Chaperone, Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson) seeks a future as a dancer in 1920's New York.

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'Downton' Flabby: Period Piece 'The Chaperone' Is A Let-Down

5:16pm March 28, 2019

by Mark Jenkins

There's plenty of 'Downton Abbey' DNA in this tale of prim Norma (Elizabeth McGovern) who shepherds young Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson) to NYC; there's also a leaden script and thin characters.

Mary Kay Place is a flinty New Englander with a grown son she can't help but help, in Diane.

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In The Bleakly Beautiful 'Diane,' Mary Kay Place Can't Help But Keep Helping

5:00pm March 28, 2019

by Ella Taylor

The debut feature of documentary filmmaker Kent Jones paints a loving but clear-eyed portrait of an older woman (Mary Kay Place) enabling her grown, addict son (Jake Lacy).

Tim Burton's Dumbo re-imagines the 1942 animated Disney classic.

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'Dumbo': Elephants Never Forget, But Audiences Will

5:00pm March 28, 2019

by Chris Klimek

Tim Burton's take on the classic Disney animated feature does what it sets out to do in a kid-friendly, safe and unsurprising way devoid of the director's onetime idiosyncratic flair.

Blaze of Glory: Moondog (Matthew McConaughey) is a stoner/poet shambling through South Florida in Harmony Korine's The Beach Bum.

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Like A Rolling Stoner: Burnout Comedy 'The Beach Bum' Is A Balm

5:00pm March 28, 2019

by Kyle Turner

In writer/director Harmony Korine's latest, Matthew McConaughey plays a South Florida stoner/poet. It's a meandering, ecstatic, and ultimately "brilliant embrace of body, pleasure and art."

Movie Review: 'Hotel Mumbai' Looks At 2008 Terrorist Attack That Shook The World

4:18pm March 22, 2019

by Bob Mondello

The 2008 terrorist attack on the famed Taj Hotel is recreated in the new film drama, Hotel Mumbai.

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Jordan Peele's 'Us' Asks: What If The Evil That Dwells Within Took Human Form?

1:36pm March 22, 2019

by Justin Chang

Peele mixes horror and hilarity in a new film about a family who runs into terrifying doppelgängers of themselves while on vacation. Critic Justin Chang says star Lupita Nyong'o carries the movie.

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Measure Twice ...: Lupita Nyong'o stars in Us, the latest horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele.

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When You Meet The Enemy, And It Is 'Us'

5:00pm March 21, 2019

by Scott Tobias

Though less thematically precise than Get Out, Jordan Peele's latest film doubles down on horror — and excels at capturing the mundane, funny moments between the big scares.

Nazanin Boniadi, Dev Patel, and Armie Hammer star in Hotel Mumbai, a docudrama about the 2008 attack on the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.

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In 'Hotel Mumbai,' Grueling Violence, Depicted With Cruel Relish

5:00pm March 21, 2019

by Danny Hensel

The film's choice to foreground white characters over the deaths of many Indian victims makes for a cold, distasteful watch.

Sunset stars Juli Jakab as Irisz Leiter, a young woman in Budapest on the eve of WWI.

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On The Eve Of World War I, 'Sunset' Is Gorgeous But Opaque

5:00pm March 21, 2019

by Ella Taylor

A beautiful, headstrong young woman (Juli Jakab) interrogates her past even as Budapest prepares to crumble; director Laszlo Nemes depicts "the soil in which fascism takes root" with cool dispassion.

Patricia Clarkson stars in Out Of Blue, a genre-bending detective flick. The movie is based on the Marin Amis novel Night Train.

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'Out Of Blue': Stardust And (Hollywood) Star-Power Fuel This Genre-Bending Whodunit

5:00pm March 21, 2019

by Andrew Lapin

This introspective (and occasionally downright lethargic) existential whodunit starring Patricia Clarkson and a cast of ringers is based on the Martin Amis novel Night Train.