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Studio 54 documentary review: inside the velvet ropes

Wed, Jun 13, 2018
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A hugely entertaining exploration of the mythology of the legendary nightclub as something truly worth celebrating, and a towering Scorsese-esque drama of the men who invented it brought down by hubris.

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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Jun 06

Fri, Jun 08, 2018
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Bryce Dallas Howard revisits Jurassic Park. Zosia Mamet revisits an old relationship.

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A Kid Like Jake movie review: the kid is all right; the parents are freaking out

Fri, Jun 01, 2018
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A movie as generous and as nonjudgmental as its protagonists, as frustrated yet as gently questing as they are. Claire Danes and Jim Parsons are extraordinary.

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Show Dogs movie review: everything is awful

Fri, May 18, 2018
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Embarrassingly bad CGI; pratfalls; genital humor; denigration of cat ladies; horrible clichés and stereotypes. This is the cinematic equivalent of stepping in dog poop. You know, for kids!

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The Boy Downstairs movie review: the ex factor

Thu, Feb 22, 2018
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An appealing high concept that could have gone in many wildly different directions, all emotionally charged, instead wallows in a wan, bloodless banality of “chill.”

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Feb 14

Fri, Feb 16, 2018
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Zosia Mamet, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Maika Monroe, Ellen Burstyn, and Catherine Keener are all starring in new movies this week… but good luck finding them on a screen near you.

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The Commuter movie review: on the wrong track

Mon, Jan 15, 2018
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A lazy, insulting xerox of better movies about Liam Neeson growling into cell phones at enigmatic villains. Devoid of tension and mystery, and rife with plotholes that derail the trip.

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movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jan 12 (updated)

Fri, Jan 12, 2018
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Taraji P. Henson and Meryl Streep are doing men’s work in wide release, with small films from Europe, the Middle East, and South America highlighting women in limited release.

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Molly’s Game movie review: absolutely aces

Fri, Dec 29, 2017
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Bold, tough, hugely entertaining. Like a new GoodFellas, except about a woman caught up in her own impudence and daring. Jessica Chastain is badass.

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Menashe movie review: the unhappy nonconformist

Wed, Dec 13, 2017
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A bittersweet, deeply human tale, one with a documentary sense of discovery to its setting: a little seen, highly insular ultraorthodox Jewish community.

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