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The Pitch Perfect films have offered an increasingly unpalatable blend of pop-song empowerment, rah-rah women’s friendship and broad gross-out comedy

Wright’s film is fleet but not especially thoughtful, wholly convincing in its production design, and in one crucial sense something rare: Here’s a war movie about rhetoric rather than battle scenes

Based on the best-selling book by Martha Raddatz, National Geographic’s newest miniseries chronicles the events of April 4, 2004, when eight soldiers from the First Cavalry Division from Fort Hood, Texas, tasked with reconstruction, were killed in a two-day siege in Sadr City, Baghdad, during the Iraq War. Jorge Diaz, who plays Army Specialist Israel Garza, seeks to give the “military show” a new face by doing what he does best: bringing joy to even the most painful Latino stories.

Any thinking person watching Downsizing is 10 steps ahead of Damon’s blinkered schlub, and watching him piece together the bare facts about how this future America works — and how our America works today — makes for a frustrating sit

The new one is bigger and dumber than the previous, a feat considering the relentless clatter of the 1995 iteration …

Guadagnino adeptly captures not just physicality of a burning love but also the emotional and intellectual components, and the film is all the more salient for that careful, realistic interpretation

The first few months of the year are notorious for being a period of drought at the movies, but the January–March 2018 release calendar offers a surprising deluge of highly anticipated films

Some of them gave me hope for America, others invited me into foreign-to-me cultures and one even made me delightfully nauseous

Writer-director Rian Johnson has certainly made the busiest Star Wars film of them all, but he keeps it from becoming a slog by infusing it with humor, verve and visual charm

I won’t waste your time attempting to sum up the totality of this year’s output, because I can’t, and any critic who claims to have seen enough of the more than 500 scripted series that aired in 2017 to do so is lying

First, these are my favorite movies of the year, not a claim to rank the definitive best, so don’t write to tell me that your favorite should have made it

Art Basel is over, but Miami’s next cultural extravaganza isn’t far off. The Miami Jewish Film Festival (MJFF) will return this January for its 21st year. January 11 through 25, MJFF will screen 62 films from 20 countries and host numerous filmmakers and special guests.

Morris’ film dramatizes Olson’s last days between interviews with Olson’s son Eric and journalists and lawyers who have taken the case as a cause

Just as the story should start to speed up and get more predictably exciting, it becomes weirder, drawn to odd tangents.

As Ginny and her life unravel, Allen’s sympathy for her seems to dry up, and she becomes something like the villain of the piece

The Other Side of Hope is a spiritual sequel to Le Havre, arriving six years later; both are sympathetic pictures of refugees without being overtly weepy or sentimental

Franco portrays Wiseau as a haughty but charismatic weirdo, someone who isn’t well-liked but who definitely gets noticed

And one of the great delights of this film is the way it charts the shifting waves of allegiances that can occur in a family that loves and argues with equal ferocity

December is here, but you won’t get an ounce of snow — you live in Miami, duh. But you can feel a winter chill inside a dark, air-conditioned cinema. When it comes to the classics this month, these theaters will grab your attention.

An article, a book and now a film, Talese’s fascination with Foos’ voyeurism still hasn’t resulted in anything like rigorous journalism

… The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel tracks its title hero’s journey from bright-eyed newlywed to disillusioned standup comedian making her way through the coffee houses and nightclubs of New York City circa 1958, propriety be damned

Steve Madden is exhausted. A whirlwind tour to promote Maddman: The Steve Madden Story — a brilliant and unexpected film that delves into the life of the irrepressible shoe czar — has led him to one of his namesake stores in South Beach. It’s one of more than 100 locations…