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    A Guide to the Blue-Collar Killing-Machine Movies of JanuaryFrom bee movies to B movies, here’s what you need to know about whether to watch The Beekeeper, The Bricklayer, or The Painter.
    By Alison Willmore
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    Something in the Dirt Gets Paranoid in Los AngelesDirectors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s latest feels more familiar than the duo’s other work, but its enthusiasm goes a long way.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    What Hides in the Heart of SaloumSaloum burrows its way into your raw nerve endings, your clenched teeth, your jostled bones.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    The (Literal) Stink of Corruption in Costa Brava, LebanonPart family drama, part political statement, Mounia Akl’s debut is wistful and uncompromising.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    The Forgiven’s Toothless Indictment of White CrueltyThe satire, starring Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes, grasps for profundity but lands on insincerity.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    Neptune Frost Smirks at the Narrowness of Western ThinkingSaul Williams’s Afrofuturist, anti-colonialist film is a mission statement by way of a musical.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    The Comfortable Familiarity of The Bob’s Burgers MovieIf you accept the narrative’s rigidity and safety, The Bob’s Burgers Movie is a jubilant bit of distraction.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    Memoria Is Curious, Complex, and Almost Undone by Its Third ActApichatpong Weerasethakul and Tilda Swinton’s experimental Memoria is curious, complex, and almost undone by its patience-testing third act.
    By Roxana Hadadi
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    Tribeca’s Sublime Doc Mostly Misses the PointThere’s a hurried slickness to Sublime that ultimately hampers any attempt to offer the definitive account of the band’s history.
    By Larry Fitzmaurice
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    Roma Is a Huge, Technically Stunning EpicAlfonso Cuarón’s most personal film yet is also his most ambitious.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    In Destination Wedding, Winona Ryder Meets an Incel and Sparks FlyThe movie feels like a ‘90s romantic comedy, and not just because its leads are like a time warp in and of themselves.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    One Man Calls A Star Is Born the Greatest Achievement in the History of CinemaIs Bradley Cooper the next Kubrick, Scorsese, Bergman, and Hitchcock?
    By Nate Jones
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    Lola Kirke Wrote a Letter to the Editor Over The New Yorker’s Gemini Review“I am disappointed by Anthony Lane’s glib criticism of my character’s appearance in the film Gemini.”
    By Hunter Harris
  14. The Man Who Brought You Veep Is Turning His Satirical Gaze to MoscowTrust Armando Iannucci, who makes profanity into poetry, to find the hidden hilarity in murderous political upheaval.
    By Boris Kachka
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    Looking Back at New York’s Critical 1977 Review of Star Wars“Star Wars will do very nicely for those lucky enough to be children or unlucky enough never to have grown up.”
    By John Simon and Kevin Lincoln
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    Critics on Justice League: At Least It’s Not Batman v SupermanAt best, it is portrayed as a fun, easy throwaway, and at worst, an incoherent and weak attempt to match Marvel’s Avengers.
    By Corinna Burford
  17. Why Mother! Landed on CinemaScore’s List of ‘Fs’It seems to have one thing in common with the other 18 F-rated films.
    By Brittany Stephanis
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    Why Him? Is a Disgustingly Unfunny Piece of Silicon Valley WorshipThe question in this movie’s title gets a lot of use.
    By Andrew Lapin
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    Passengers Is an Intriguing Space Romance That’s Sunk by Its EndingJennifer Lawrence acts her heart out.
    By David Edelstein
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    Review: Solace Is Mind-numbingly BoringIt’s often unclear whether the film is spoofing thriller tropes, or playing them straight.
    By Tomris Laffly
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    Review: Collateral Beauty Is As Bad As You HeardThis would-be heart-warmer is as inspirational as a term paper.
    By Emily Yoshida
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    Movie Review: The Eyes of My MotherThe twisted dream logic keeps the film from becoming a horror cliché.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Warren Beatty’s Rules Don’t Apply Is Uneven, Yet RevealingWhat Beatty projects onto Howard Hughes tells us something about how a megalomaniac contemplates the dying of the light.
    By David Edelstein
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    The Slow, Stunning Intimacy of LovingDirector Jeff Nichols embellishes nothing. With minimal means, he makes the air thick with dread.
    By David Edelstein
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    Movie Review: Arrival Is a Tantalizing PuzzlerAmy Adams seems born to be this character.
    By David Edelstein
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    Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog Is Garish, Exuberant PulpThese lovable little men who sees themselves as tender and romantic are psychopaths who’d kill you out of irritation.
    By David Edelstein
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    Hacksaw Ridge Is a Massive Achievement for Mel GibsonSay what you will about Mad Mel, he’s a driven, febrile artist, and there isn’t a second in this war film that doesn’t burn with his peculiar intensity.
    By David Edelstein
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    Jack Reacher: Never Go Back Is a Model of Mindless Pulpy ActionThe movie is lighter, more fun, and ultimately more satisfying than its weighty predecessor.
    By David Edelstein
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    The Muddled Elements of The Accountant Somehow Add Up to a Decent TimeWhen you’re not laughing at it, you’re laughing with it.
    By David Edelstein
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    Animation Heightens Tower’s Unsettling StoryStretching the form of documentaries has given us stunning hybrids like Waltz With Bashir, Persepolis, and now, this.
    By David Edelstein
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    The Girl on the Train Is a Thriller That Doesn’t Know How to ThrillI got depressed early, when I realized I’d be spending two hours in the hands of people who didn’t know how to tell a story.
    By David Edelstein
  32. Review: Ava DuVernay’s Essential, Imperfect 13thThe movie is frankly exhausting, with too much information (and too many brilliant interviewees) to do justice to here. You simply need to see it.
    By David Edelstein
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    Deepwater Horizon Thrillingly Re-creates an Awful, Indefensible EventEvery burst of steam and lethal debris, every burn and laceration, feels momentous.
    By David Edelstein
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    Review: The Magnificent Seven Is a Wan WesternThe movie has the trappings of a classic Western and it hits its marks, but there’s no grandeur in its images or generosity in its soul.
    By David Edelstein
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    Bridget Jones’s Baby Rediscovers the Joys of the OriginalIt’s hard to parse the movie, but it certainly keeps you watching, amused and appalled and amused again.
    By David Edelstein
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    Tom Hanks Keeps the Shaky Sully From CrashingDirector Clint Eastwood and screenwriter Todd Komarnicki turned Captain Chesley Sullenberger’s heroic feat into a story of government persecution.
    By David Edelstein
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    The Melodrama of The Light Between Oceans Arrives in Crashing WavesOn one side are flawed but noble grown-ups who can’t make happily-ever-after work; on the other is an innocent child who is suddenly bereft.
    By David Edelstein
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    Suicide Squad Should Have Been Kept Locked AwayAs storytelling, DC’s latest is the worst of the worst.
    By David Edelstein
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    Jason Bourne Exhausts With Its Cybercentric Sensory OverloadJason Bourne isn’t much more fun than the stoic Matt Damon is — it’s too assaultive and humorless. But it’s a wow. Wow is it a wow.
    By David Edelstein
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    Lights Out Is a Low-Wattage Horror That Delivers the Occasional ChargeLittle kids might like it: It’s a starter shocker.
    By David Edelstein
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    Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie Is Only Semi-FabIt’s as if the film is taking after its own heroines: aspiring to something bigger than it should, and too often looking awkward in the process.
    By Jen Chaney
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    Review: The Lively Star Trek Beyond Director Justin Lin knows how to shoot his fights from unexpected angles and with enough spatial-temporal variables to keep us jolt-addicts rocking in our seat.
    By David Edelstein
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    The Many Joys and Questions of Captain FantasticYou could think of the movie as Noam Chomsky’s Little Miss Sunshine.
    By David Edelstein
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    Ghostbusters Takes the Right Idea and Makes All the Wrong MovesThe new Ghostbusters isn’t a horror, exactly. It’s just misbegotten.
    By David Edelstein
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    Review: In Life, Animated, Disney Tempers AutismObserving Owen watch The Little Mermaid or Aladdin or The Lion King, I found it hard not to cry. And I don’t particularly even like Disney animation.
    By David Edelstein
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    The Legend of Tarzan Falls Well Short of the TreetopsThe movie has impressive animals and woke aspirations, but forgot the fun.
    By David Edelstein
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    Review: Escape Independence Day: ResurgenceThis hodgepodge has been thrown together in so slovenly a way that it’s no surprise the studio didn’t show it to the press.
    By David Edelstein
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    Finding Dory Finds New Delights in a Familiar SettingThe silliness escalates — the jokes build and build and pay off — until you’re slaphappy, punch-drunk, primed for anything.
    By David Edelstein
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    X-Men: Apocalypse Is Ensemble Superhero Moviemaking Done RightWatching Apocalypse, you don’t feel as if every character is being set up for his or her own spinoff. They complement one another.
    By David Edelstein
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    Captain America: Civil War Is a Busy — But Uninventive — BlockbusterMarvel has resorted to making its colorful superheroes fight one another.
    By David Edelstein
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