Alonso Duralde
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‘Maleficent’ Review: Angelina Jolie Helps Flip the Script, ‘Wicked’- Style (Video)
The villain of “Sleeping Beauty” gets to be the hero in smart (but visually hideous) story that injects post-“Frozen” female empowerment into an old chestnut
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‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ Review: Vulgarity Heads Off Absurdism at the Pass
Seth MacFarlane’s non sequitur gags about the awfulness of life on the frontier get the laughs, but they’re overcrowded by sophomoric sex and scatology jokes that miss the target with a loud splatter
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‘Edge of Tomorrow’ Review: Tom Cruise’s Groundhog Starship Butterfly Source Code Troopers Day Effect (Video)
It’s a familiar sci-fi mashup, but director Doug Liman knows how to find the fun and the thrills in this tale of an alien-fighting soldier who lives the same day over and over again
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‘Words and Pictures’ Review: Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche in an Academic War With No Winners
A contrived set-up and wild shifts in tone undercut interesting performances from two great actors
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‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ Review: Mutant Saga Crosses the Streams of Its Old-School and Newer Characters
Make sure you’re caught up on all things X if you want to keep track of what Wolverine’s doing in the past and how it might affect a dystopian, war-on-mutants future
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‘Godzilla’ Review: Or, in This Case, ‘Waiting for Godzilla’
The monster movie’s biggest star delivers when he’s on screen, but his appearances are way too few and far between
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‘God’s Pocket’ Review: Director John Slattery Wallows in Blue-Collar Clichés (Video)
The late Philip Seymour Hoffman leads a fine cast that drowns in the fetishized squalor of this steeltown bummer
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‘Palo Alto’ Review: James Franco’s Compassionate Look at a Teenage Wasteland
Gia Coppola (Francis’ granddaughter) makes her debut as writer-director
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‘Walk of Shame’ Review: Elizabeth Banks Is the Only Bright Spot in This Warmed-Over ‘After Hours’
The actress is game, and some moments land, but this farce is frequently forced and overly frenetic
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‘Million Dollar Arm’ Review: Jon Hamm Gets a Walk to First in Sentimental Underdog Tale
This thoroughly predictable baseball drama wears you down like an adorable dog demanding to be scratched
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‘Locke’ Review: Tom Hardy Captivates in This One-Man Road Trip
The British actor’s tour de force performance anchors this daring, riveting drama that takes place entirely inside a vehicle driving down the highway at night
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‘The Other Woman’ Review: Leslie Mann, Cameron Diaz’s Performances Overshadowed by Schizo Script (Video)
Nick Cassavetes’ comedy of revenge can’t decide if it wants to be stylish, witty, bawdy, gross or silly, so it tries them all at one point or another
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‘A Haunted House 2’ Review: Less Terrible, Still Terrible
Leaden sequel might offer one or two more laughs than its misbegotten predecessor, but it’s still a lazy and slapdash horror spoof
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‘Bears’ Review: A Year in the Life, From Hibernation to Salmon Fishing and Back Again
In this sweet-natured Disney nature film narrated by John C. Reilly, the title characters really do go over the mountain to see what they can see (and eat)
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‘Transcendence’ Review: Johnny Depp Is a Ghost in the Machine in This Bug-Riddled Techno-Thriller (Video)
You can feel this movie’s attempts at Big Ideas about technology get weighed down by a dopey, nonsensical plot
