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‘American Made’ Finds Tom Cruise Playing a Pilot Again, But This Time He’s a Reckless Fool
More Slop Gun than Top Gun, the film follows the outrageous but true story of Barry Seal.
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‘Friend Request’ Tries to Facespook Audiences, But Datedness Gets in the Way
The social-media horror feels slightly behind the times, but it still has some new ideas.
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Twenty Years Later, Local Sightings Is as Vital as Ever for Northwest Filmmakers
The Northwest Film Forum’s celebration of local indie film is pushing beyond the movie screen.
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Despite Strong Performances, ‘Rebel in the Rye’ Is a Slump of a Salinger Biopic
The film’s subject has gravity of its own, but simple filmmaking decisions get in the way.
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‘Crown Heights’ Tracks the Tale of a Man Wrongfully Imprisoned For 20 Years
Based on a ‘This American Life’ episode, the film takes a procedural approach.
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Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon Jest at Windmills in ‘The Trip to Spain’
The road-trip film blends fact and fiction, but the jokes are very real.
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Robert Pattinson Goes From Dreamboat to Sleazeball in ‘Good Time’
The stylish new film follows a bank robber’s feverish series of close calls.
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Steven Soderbergh Pulls a Reverse ‘Ocean’s 11’ in ‘Logan Lucky’
A heist is still central, but the conspirators are far from suave.
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‘Wind River’ Is a Very Talky Western
Taylor Sheridan’s new film is chock full of dialogue, but that’s also one of its biggest assets.
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‘Detroit’ Spares No Cruel Detail in Its Depiction of American Violence
Kathryn Bigelow’s retelling of the 1967 Algiers Motel Incident is a nerve-shredder.
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Obvious Jokes Weigh Down Jenny Slate’s Follow-Up to Obvious Child
Landline reaches for the raunchy for wont of a better story.
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War—What Is It Good For? In ‘Dunkirk,’ It’s Great for Overlapping Narratives
Christopher Nolan’s new flick is built of meticulously interlocking storylines.
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‘War for the Planet of the Apes’ Is Prime Primate Action
The latest in the classic sci-fi series earns all of its bombast.
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Marvel Delivers a Well-Adjusted Spider-Teen
The latest reboot succeeds by swapping Peter Parker’s angst with daffy levity.
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Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled” Isn’t Beguiling
The Cannes award-winning Civil War period piece is mere decoration.
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Hirokazu Kore-eda Drops a Sad Sack into a Storm
Even with its on-the-nose metaphor, ‘After the Storm’ is beautifully made.
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Salma Hayek Takes on the Rich in Beatriz at Dinner
With a plot seemingly set up for moral payoff, the film refreshingly subverts those expectations.
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“My Cousin Rachel” Succeeds as Pulp With Purpose
An exercise in critical thinking, the film forces us to weigh our own prejudices against the screen.
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Under Its Glossy Exterior, ‘Paris Can Wait’ Is Tone-Deaf
Full of oblivious privileged characters and well-photographed food, the film is thoroughly off.
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In the Fifth ‘Pirates of the Caribbean,’ Dead Men Tell Old Tales
The latest in the Disney series is a showy summer rehash.