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Some of them gave me hope for America, others invited me into foreign-to-me cultures and one even made me delightfully nauseous

The Pitch Perfect films have offered an increasingly unpalatable blend of pop-song empowerment, rah-rah women’s friendship and broad gross-out comedy

Guadagnino adeptly captures not just physicality of a burning love but also the emotional and intellectual components, and the film is all the more salient for that careful, realistic interpretation

Those expecting camp or catfights won’t find them in Gillespie’s movie, which instead offers thoughtful and somewhat objective critiques.

Any thinking person watching Downsizing is 10 steps ahead of Damon’s blinkered schlub.

The new one is bigger and dumber than the previous, a feat considering the relentless clatter of the 1995 iteration.

It looks like Phoenix is going to be a stop on the road to WrestleMania.

Writer-director Rian Johnson has certainly made the busiest Star Wars film of them all, but he keeps it from becoming a slog.

Although it goes beyond a mere stylistic device, the supernatural here often feels like a function of Thelma’s loneliness and inner turmoil

One of the great delights of this film is the way it charts the shifting waves of allegiances that can occur in a family.

Here’s a war movie about rhetoric rather than battle scenes.

As Ginny and her life unravel, Allen’s sympathy for her seems to dry up, and she becomes something like the villain of the piece.

Franco portrays Wiseau as a haughty but charismatic weirdo, someone who isn’t well-liked but who definitely gets noticed.

Just as the story should start to speed up and get more predictably exciting, it becomes weirder.

It went viral — then it disappeared.

An article, a book and now a film, Talese’s fascination with Foos’ voyeurism still hasn’t resulted in anything like rigorous journalism

Despite, or probably because of, the density of its plot, Mr. Robot is almost more enjoyable if you don’t really know what’s going on

… The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel tracks its title hero’s journey from bright-eyed newlywed to disillusioned standup comedian making her way through the coffee houses and nightclubs of New York City circa 1958, propriety be damned

Here are some quick U.S. stats: White women won the vote in 1920; some Native American women could vote in 1924, while the rest could not until 1947; Asian-American women first voted in 1952; and black women had to wait until the 1960s to freely exercise this fundamental right. But…

The movie turns on a series of revelations about the characters, whose hushed, intimate narration reveals rich inner lives.

Alpert checks in again and again with the same three families over 45 years of visits to the island, with sometimes heartbreaking results.

Tis’ the season for Christmas movies, and this one is worth seeing.