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Train to Busan (Busanhaeng) movie review: delays due to zombies

Sat, Jul 23, 2016

This South Korean hit is an oozy doozy of a horror-thriller; confidently spins out its own unique — and breathless — take on familiar genre tropes.

Star Trek Beyond movie review: future positive (but it won’t come easily)

Thu, Jul 21, 2016

18 comments

Intense action; smart, funny nods to its roots while moving in a new direction; and explicit confrontation of a problem always at the heart of Star Trek.

Ice Age: Collision Course movie review: where is a mass extinction when you need one?

Mon, Jul 18, 2016

9 comments

The Ice Age flicks are the cinematic equivalent of drive-through nuggets of reconstituted chicken slurry served by a bored teenager in a cardboard hat.

Love Between the Covers documentary review: respect for romance

Wed, Jul 13, 2016

4 comments

Delightful. A sharp, affectionate peek inside the cozy, supportive community of writers and readers that drives multibillion-dollar romance book publishing.

Ghostbusters movie review: boo yeah!

Tue, Jul 12, 2016

95 comments

Kate McKinnon’s gleefully reckless physicist is brainy comic mayhem, unlike any female character we’ve seen before. And there are more reasons to cheer.

Now You See Me 2 movie review: now you don’t

Fri, Jul 08, 2016

8 comments

The delicately balanced foolishness of Now You See Me gives way to impossibly supernatural magic tricks aimed at thwarting the least menacing villain ever.

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie review: grab the Bolly, darling

Fri, Jul 08, 2016

6 comments

Sends up one-upwomanship, egotistical self-help, and reflexive hedonism with zing. It is a sheer triumph to see two older women being really funny onscreen.