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‘The Nightmare’ review: Eerie immersion in a nocturnal dreamscape

June 15, 2018 at 3:49 p.m.

If there are few things less interesting than hearing other people talk about their dreams, then director Rodney Ascher has pulled off something uniquely impressive, if still somewhat overstretched, in...

Review: ‘Seymour: An Introduction’

June 15, 2018 at 10:12 p.m.

Although clearly designed as a reverent tribute from one artist to another, this first documentary directed by Ethan Hawke happily sidesteps any vanity-project pitfalls, granting full expression to great classical...

Review: ‘Unfinished Business’

June 15, 2018 at 11:25 p.m.

A comedy with its heart in the right place and everything else bizarrely out of joint, "Unfinished Business" finds director Ken Scott following 2013's "Delivery Man" with another dubious attempt...

Review: ‘Horrible Bosses 2’

June 18, 2018 at 5:19 a.m.

At the risk of suggesting that "Horrible Bosses 2" has a compelling reason to exist, it's worth noting that the movie does function, on one level, as an anti-capitalist revenge...

Film Review: ‘Rage’

August 25, 2021 at 1:29 a.m.

When an ex-mobster's daughter is found dead, the repressed return with a vengeance that feels more like a whimper in "Rage," a silly and shopworn Nicolas Cage action vehicle that...

The Films of Richard Linklater: Ranked From Best to Worst

August 25, 2021 at 1:27 a.m.

JUSTIN CHANG: Andrew, if you'll allow me a brief (sort of) digression before we get down to business: A few nights ago, as part of our foolhardy mission to rank...

‘Transformers 4’ vs. ‘Snowpiercer’: What Michael Bay and Bong Joon-ho Have in Common

August 25, 2021 at 1:07 a.m.

Two action movies opened in U.S. theaters this past weekend. One of them -- which you may not have heard of, thanks to the Weinstein Co.'s criminally nonexistent marketing campaign...

Film Review: ‘Tammy’

August 25, 2021 at 1:09 a.m.

A well-meaning personal project that never rises above the level of amiable mediocrity, "Tammy" feels like the kind of picture that can happen only when a major talent -- here,...

Film Review: ‘The Tribe’

August 25, 2021 at 1:05 a.m.

Actions, emotions and desperate impulses speak far louder than words in "The Tribe," a formally audacious coup de cinema that marks a stunning writing-directing debut for Ukrainian filmmaker Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy....

Film Review: ‘Think Like a Man Too’

August 25, 2021 at 12:54 a.m.

The influence of " The Hangover " looms like a toxic cloud over "Think Like a Man Too," a raucous mess of a Vegas-set sequel that brings new meaning to...

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