Movies
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Movie review: ‘Live by Night’ relies on the obviousJan 13, 2017 12:01 am - In the stylish Prohibition-era gangster yarn “Live by Night,” native son Ben Affleck has ambitions as big as his movie’s hat budget. From fedoras to scall...
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Movie review: Ben Affleck brings Lehane’s ‘Live by Night’ aliveJan 13, 2017 12:01 am - Dennis Lehane’s slick and fun and nasty 2012 gangster novel “Live by Night” gets trimmed down for director-star and screenplay-adaptor Ben Affleck’s ...
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Movie review: Just the facts approach spoils ‘Patriots Day’Jan 13, 2017 12:01 am - When I saw “Patriots Day” last month, I was marginally impressed by its level of class and authenticity. Then I tuned into to see HBO’s “Marathon....
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Movie review: Terrorism takes a back seat to dedicated police work in ‘Patriots Day’Jan 09, 2017 10:00 pm - Something must be calling out to writer-director Peter Berg to keep making good movies based on awful true events, and having Mark Wahlberg star them. Berg’s two mo...
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Movie review: Suarez, Ugarte performances keep ‘Julieta’ afloatJan 09, 2017 10:00 pm - The ghost of Douglas Sirk laps at every corner of “Julieta,” Pedro Almodovar’s mother-daughter sudser in which love and martyrdom tragically clash. It...
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Movie review: ‘Hidden Figures’ is something to cherishJan 04, 2017 10:00 pm - The corny, but powerful, “Hidden Figures” is the far right’s worst nightmare: Three strong, brilliant black women doing it for themselves by forcing a rac...
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Movie review: ‘A Monster Calls’ is an optical masterpiece in desperate search of a soulJan 04, 2017 10:00 pm - In many ways, “A Monster Calls” is a lovingly rendered meditation on grief, packing plenty of bark and just enough sap to keep it sweet. But why oh why was I n...
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Director Peter Berg goes for realism and emotion in ‘Patriots Day’Jan 03, 2017 10:00 pm - Peter Berg’s career path has kept taking turns. If you spoke to him when he was still a kid, he might have said he wanted to be a professional boxer. By high school...
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Movie review: ‘Lion' tells the story of a lost boyDec 25, 2016 12:01 am - The Oscar-roar emanating from "Lion," a true tale of a young Indian-Australian adoptee using Google Earth to find his birth mother 25 years after being separated from he...
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Movie review: ‘Why Him?' is funny but formulaicDec 21, 2016 10:00 pm - In the comedy "Why Him?" writer-director John Hamburg revisits the same set-up he first wrote about 10 years ago in "Meet the Parents" — a father in a twist over hi...