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‘Until Dawn’ Review: They Keep Dying, You’ll Keep Shrugging

Watching someone play a video game that they never let you play is a singular kind of boring. A similar

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‘Havoc’ Review: Tom Hardy Is Primed for a Fight

Brimming with action archetypes — the grizzled hero, the upstart deputy, renegade police, a crooked politician and young lovers on

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Masahiro Shinoda, Leading Light of Japan’s New Wave Cinema, Dies at 94

Masahiro Shinoda, a leading director of the postwar Japanese New Wave whose films, notably “Pale Flower” and “Double Suicide,” fused

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Ben Affleck on ‘The Accountant 2,’ Hollywood and Learning to Line Dance

In the movie class of 2016, “The Accountant” was a wild-card. It told an original story for adults, breaking from

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‘Blue Sun Palace’ Review: A Whole World Inside

The first scene of “Blue Sun Palace” lingers on a couple at dinner, eating a mouthwatering chicken, speaking Mandarin to

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A New Requirement for Oscar Voters: They Must Actually Watch the Films

It has not always been necessary to read the book in order to write a book report, as many a

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‘April’ Review: A Doctor’s Dilemma

The visually arresting drama “April” is filled with naked and clothed female bodies that are, in turn, possessed by desire,

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‘Magic Farm’ Review: A Droll Delight

A New York City documentary crew sets up shop in rural Argentina in “Magic Farm,” an Americans-abroad satire that teeters

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‘Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie’ Review: Rolling Another One for the Road

It is not quite accurate to state that had recreational marijuana use been legal in the early 1970s, the comedy

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‘On Swift Horses’ Review: Putting It All on the Line

Often the movies treat love and desire as if they’re easy to define: romantic, platonic, familial, sexual. Either you want

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