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- 'My Cousin Rachel' star Rachel Weisz freshens up the Gothic story
The film, which is based on a novel by Daphne du Maurier, rises or falls on the casting of Rachel. With Weisz, it ascends to heights it might ordinarily never reach.
- First Look‘Wonder Woman’ stirs social media as most tweeted-about film of 2017
The film depicting Amazonian heroine ‘Wonder Woman’ has shattered Hollywood’s glass ceiling, simultaneously becoming the best-selling female-directed film in its opening weekend and the most tweeted-about film in 2017.
- Uneven 'Churchill' feels more like an exposé than a deep-dish psychological exploration
Brian Cox is the latest to portray the legendary politician and the actor brings the private Churchill to the fore. The film becomes more about Churchill’s battle to conquer himself than about the Allies’ battle to defeat the Nazis.
- 'Wonder Woman' has a frisky, friendly spirit
Stars Gal Gadot and Chris Pine share a charming chemistry and director Patty Jenkins and screenwriter Allan Heinberg don't overdose on the violence, despite the film's World War I setting.
- In intensely harrowing 'Afterimage,' Stalinist repression shatters artist’s life
The Polish avant-garde painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski (Boguslaw Linda in a magisterial performance) is the subject of Andrzej Wajda’s final film.
- With low expectations, 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales' is amusing
Some of the movie gets oppressive, but Javier Bardem is scary-funny as the phantasmal pirate-hunter Captain Salazar and a stormy sea-parting finale is impressive.
- 'Baywatch' has a disposable plot
The film stars Dwayne Johnson, Kelly Rohrbach, and Zac Efron as a two-time Olympic gold-medal swimmer.
- 'Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story' revives story of little-known movie couple
Storyboard artist and production designer Harold Michelson and his wife, Lillian, a legendary researcher, are the subjects of the documentary. Both made integral contributions to some of the most iconic movies in Hollywood history.
- 'Alien: Covenant' is more interesting than 'Prometheus' but still a retread
In 'Covenant,' the only protagonist of any interest is Michael Fassbender’s humanoid. The film stars Billy Crudup and Katherine Waterston.
- 'The Commune' actress Trine Dyrholm is the only reason to see film
The film, about friends who create a commune to experiment with a new way of living, is relatively conventional. It also stars Ulrich Thomsen and Martha Sofie Wallstrom Hansen.
- ‘The Wedding Plan’ is both unorthodox and ultra-Orthodox
An American-Israeli director follows up her earlier movie success with a rom-com about a woman who tries to find a suitor to marry on a schedule.
- ‘Angkor Awakens: A Portrait of Cambodia’ does justice to an anguished history
Robert Lieberman’s documentary focuses on the devastation wrought by the Pol Pot regime and the Khmer Rouge right up to Cambodia’s present.
- ‘King Arthur: Legend of the Sword’ lands with a thud
The movie is compulsively watchable, but it’s watchable in the same way as a massive train wreck or the slow-motion demolition of a high-rise.
- Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn team up for ‘Snatched’
In the action comedy, the costars play a mother and daughter who are kidnapped while vacationing in Ecuador. Hawn hasn’t been in a movie in 15 years.
- In 'The Lovers,' Debra Winger's intensity is too much for goofy grab bag of a movie
The movie stars Winger and Tracy Letts as a deeply dissatisfied husband and wife. 'The Lovers' is pitched uneasily between slapstick comedy and stark drama.
- 'A Woman's Life' director’s poeticism is overly protracted
'Life' is set in the Normandy countryside in the first half of the 1800s and is based on Guy de Maupassant’s first novel, “L’Humble Vérité,” or “The Humble Truth.'
- Now playing: Hollywood’s dystopian view of Silicon Valley
The new film 'The Circle' and the HBO series 'Silicon Valley' both turn a critical eye on the prevailing tech culture in Northern California that increasingly defines modern life.
- In ‘Graduation,’ personal and political are inseparable
Although the film, starring Adrian Titieni, Lia Bugnar, and Maria Dragus, is set in Romania, its moral quandaries could be taking place anywhere.
- 'A Quiet Passion' won't encourage viewers to seek out Emily Dickinson's poetry
Cynthia Nixon stars as a sour and embittered Emily Dickinson in Terence Davies's film. Jennifer Ehle as Emily’s sister and Keith Carradine as her indulgently authoritarian father help somewhat to thaw out the proceedings.
- John Coltrane documentary 'Chasing Trane' has stunning concert, music clips
The terrific documentary, directed by John Scheinfeld, traces the career of the great saxophonist and composer.