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Review: Ouija: Origin of Evil offers suitably creepy Halloween fare
Deduct half a star for off-season viewing.
Astrid Budgor
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Review: Moonlight shines with gorgeous melancholy
A beautiful, singular gem.
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Review: The Girl on the Train is a sluggish mess
This is one train you shouldn’t hop, friends!
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Review: The Magnificent Seven is overstating it (2/5 stars)
Total massacre.
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Movie review: Don’t Breathe is a blunt-force slasher (3/5 stars)
Stripped-down and nasty.
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Movie review: Morgan has no reason to exist (1 out of 5 stars)
Accelerated decrepitude.
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Movie review: Indignation has the temerity to just be a good movie (4 of 5 stars)
Solid craft brings an intimate story to life.
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Review: Captain Fantastic is unexpectedly powerful (three-and-a-half stars out of five)
It comes by its quirk honestly.
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Movie Review: True-crime clichés, Ybor City grit and Bryan Cranston in The Infiltrator
Tampa has never looked seedier.
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Movie review: The BFG overstays his welcome
It’s a bit too friendly
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The Neon Demon is a hallucinogenic fairy tale – 3.5 stars
Fashion is sex; sex is death; death is fashion.
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Victory’s a massacre in brutal thriller Green Room
More like Red Room, right … cause all the blood? Get it?
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Atom Egoyan’s Remember is an utterly inept Holocaust drama
Remember the Holocaust, sure, but forget this shit.
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The Witch is a primal, potent nightmare
Wouldst thou like to live … deliciously?
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The Year in Lists: 25 movie haiku
A pithy guide to what’s in theaters this weekend.
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Movie Review: The Martian is a frictionless space adventure
Ridley Scott’s new big-budge space adventure has no room to create meaning. It talks and talks and talks but says nothing.
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Remembering Wes Craven
Reflections on how the horror icon shaped and reshaped a genre.
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Movie review: American Ultra is EXTREME!(ly) likeable
Strong performances ground an unfocused script.
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Movie Review: Fantastic Four is, yes, anything but
A half-star is generous, our reviewer says.
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Movie Review: Cartel Land
The documentary offers a ton of footage but lacks substantive examination.