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'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' is, like the other films in the series, a soap opera in spaceThe latest installment is about on par with the enjoyable 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens.' Writer-director Rian Johnson does a creditable, if uninspired, job.
‘Dunkirk’ won box office – is an Oscar next?The film is now one of the 10 domestically highest-grossing movies of the year. As a historical drama, it stands in sharp contrast to such fellow Top 10 list occupiers as the remake of 'Beauty and the Beast' and superhero movies 'Wonder Woman' and 'Spider-Man: Homecoming.'
‘I, Tonya’ skips Harding’s love of skating for fatuous ironyMargot Robbie stars as Tonya Harding in a film that is all smirk and wink.
'1945' is a compact study of wartime guiltAs a Hungarian village prepares for a wedding after V-E Day, two strangers arrive.
Parts of 'The Shape of Water' recall films like Cocteau’s 'Beauty and the Beast'The cold-war melodrama featuring Michael Shannon, as a big bad government agent, is less interesting than the relationship between the mute Elisa (Sally Hawkins), a night-shift janitor, and the mysterious merman captured in the Amazon.
In 'Wonder Wheel,' Woody Allen's latest, the characters are too thinly drawn'Wonder Wheel' stars Kate Winslet as Ginny, a waitress in a clam house who had ambitions to be an actress. Justin Timberlake, Juno Temple, and Jim Belushi co-star.
Romantic film 'Call Me by Your Name' is too determinedly soothingThe film centers on the romance between teenager Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer), a grad student who has arrived for a summer internship with Elio’s father (Michael Stuhlbarg).
Gary Oldman takes on the oft-played role of Winston Churchill for biopic ‘Darkest Hour’The film follows the prime minister after the 1940 election. Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Dillane co-star.
Spangly 'Coco' has moments as powerful as anything in the Pixar canonThe animation, under the direction of Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina, doesn’t quite expand into the full-blown magical realist lyricism that seems to have been intended.
Lives of a black and a white family intertwine post-WWII in ‘Mudbound’The film, which is directed and co-written by Dee Rees, is admirable in its ambitions, but less so in its execution.
Docs in Progress gives documentaries a boostThe organization, based in Silver Spring, Md., offers screenings and courses on the nuts and bolts of filming, editing, and production. 'I think that documentaries do have a potential to really have a huge impact,' says executive director Erica Ginsberg.
Frances McDormand is too spartan and sealed off in 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'The most interesting character in the movie is Sheriff Bill Willoughby, and that’s largely because actor Woody Harrelson is so moving in the part.
'Lady Bird' is frisky and oddball, which is sometimes annoying and more often ingratiatingThe adolescent coming-of-age pangs experienced by Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan), to which we can all relate in some measure, are timeless and the movie is best when it undercuts its own seriousness
Rigorously conventional ‘Last Flag Flying’ has few surprisesThere is a pleasingness to the predictability of the film, which stars Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, and Laurence Fishburne as Vietnam veterans.
'Suburbicon' is an uneasy mixture of noir and socially conscious filmThe movie compares poorly to the recent movie ‘Get Out.’
Todd Haynes's direction in 'Wonderstruck' keeps plot at emotional removeThe film follows a 12-year-old boy (Oakes Fegley) and a 12-year-old girl (Millicent Simmonds) whose stories are told contrapuntally 50 years apart, his in the vibrantly colored New York City of 1977, hers in the black-and-white New York of 1927.
Documentary brings Goodall’s story to vivid life in ‘Jane’We are so used to seeing reenactments in documentaries of this sort that to see footage of real chimpanzees is both unnerving and exhilarating.
'The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)' is wide-ranging, self-indulgentThe new movie is writer-director Noah Baumbach’s latest foray into nattery family dysfunction.
In ‘Ex Libris,’ the story of libraries is really about infinitely complex peopleDirector Frederick Wiseman is consistently first-rate, and this latest documentary is no exception.
In 'Blade Runner 2049,' 'visionary' is synonymous with slow and monotonousThere are flashes of visual grandeur in “Blade Runner 2049,” which was shot by the always inventive Roger Deakins, but there’s not much reason for this film to exist outside of its fan base.
