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Review: Clint Eastwood's Dutiful Sully Is Too Heavy for Liftoff

It's a too-simplistic approach to the "Miracle on the Hudson"

By John Anderson

Have You Met Miss Jones? Let a New Film Break the Ice

Like a pair of funky planets, two R&B goddesses collided backstage at a 2011 taping of VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul. "I screamed, 'Mavis!'" recalls Sharon Jones. "She screamed, 'Sharon!' Someone came out of a room...

By John Anderson

Interrogating an Auteur in De Palma

One needn't suffer recurring Carrie nightmares or keep Scarface looped on the flat screen to have a good time at De Palma--a title that storms across the screen in forbidding blood red letters before introducing...

By John Anderson

The X-Men Cede to Special Effects As the Franchise Faces an Absurd Apocalypse

X-Men: Apocalypse may not be the best of the supermutant action series, but it's certainly the most ... well, apocalyptic. A wrathful god (Oscar Isaac) rises from a multimillennial coma, takes one look at the...

By John Anderson

Here's Why Making The Young Messiah Was 'Fraught With Peril'

The Young Messiah introduces a new class in the world of Jesus narratives—and director Cyrus Nowrasteh says it wasn't easy material to tackle

By John Anderson

Oscar's Best Directors Say You're Getting Ripped Off at the Movie Theater

This "has been a troubling issue for years," says Martin Scorsese

By John Anderson

Leo, the Bear and the Confounding Oscar Race of 2016

Inside the competition for the Academy Awards

By John Anderson

Review: Will Ferrell Brings Back His Dunce Persona in Daddy's Home

Daddy's Home is heavy on cringe-inducing antics, though it does raise some questions about modern manhood

By John Anderson

The Hunger Games Were Rigged

That's why they always felt so real

By John Anderson

Review: The 33 Makes a Big Impact Underground

The film marks one of Antonio Banderas’s best performances in years

By John Anderson
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