New Releases

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  'Vice' Is an Ambitious Examination of the Banality of Evil

  Directed by Adam McKay

  PUBLISHED Dec 19, 2018

  Just in time for Christmas, here's a brand new iteration of the Grinch story. No, not the Benedict Cumberbatch cartoon — that other schemer...

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  'If Beale Street Could Talk' Promotes Hope in Challenging Times

  Directed by Barry Jenkins

  PUBLISHED Dec 18, 2018

  Moonlight director Barry Jenkins is about to break our hearts all over again with another gripping tale of black love. Adapting James Baldw...

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  Ruth Bader Ginsburg Biopic 'On the Basis of Sex' Is Like an Underdog Sports Movie

  Directed by Mimi Leder

  PUBLISHED Dec 18, 2018

  When Ruth Bader Ginsburg's nephew Daniel Stiepleman wrote the screenplay for On the Basis of Sex, he could never have known that the Suprem...

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  'Ben Is Back' Is a Fraught Exploration of Addiction During Holidays

  Directed by Peter Hedges

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2018

  When Holly (Julia Roberts) pulls up to her house, a nervous young man is standing in the snowy front yard. She leaps out of the car and run...

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  'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' Nails the Best Webslinger in Movie History

  Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman

  PUBLISHED Dec 12, 2018

  While there is no such thing as the perfect movie, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse comes tantalizingly close. There is a lot of heavy lif...

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  Bloated 'Aquaman' Fails to Make a Splash

  Directed by James Wan

  PUBLISHED Dec 11, 2018

  There has already been a superhero film this year that finds a half-blood member of a hidden, technologically advanced nation fighting his...

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  Natalie Portman's 'Vox Lux' Is Intriguing Highbrow Trash

  Directed by Brady Corbet

  PUBLISHED Dec 7, 2018

  If you thought a Natalie Portman movie about a pop star would be fun, think again. Vox Lux is a curious mix of Hollywood blockbuster and po...

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  'Mary Queen of Scots' Has Pointless Politics and Gripping Human Drama

  Directed by Josie Rourke

  PUBLISHED Dec 5, 2018

  Who was the rightful heir to the English throne in the mid-16th century: Protestant ruler Elizabeth I of the House of Tudor, or her Catholi...