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  1. movie review
    Time Is the Strongest Character in Gett: The Trial of Viviane AmsalemThe third and most accomplished film in a trilogy by Ronit Elkabetz and her brother Shlomi.
  2. The 25 Best Romantic Comedies Since When Harry Met SallyOur film critics present 25 outside- and inside-the-box romantic comedies from the past 25 years.
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    Fifty Shades Review: Dakota Johnson Is SuperbHe’s not sending much heat her way.
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    Jupiter Ascending Is Inane From First Frame to LastThe new film from the Wachowski siblings.
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    The SpongeBob Movie Is Big, Loud, and GloriousThe jokes come as thick and fast as seagull poop, which also comes. 
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    Project Almanac Is a Good B-Movie That Hits Its MarksThe mood gets pretty dark and desperate for a larkish teen pic.
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    Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu Is ShatteringThe story of an African family battling a fundamentalist coup.
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    Submarine Thriller Black Sea Is a Rattling Good RideStarring Jude Law and Scoot McNairy.
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    Jennifer Aniston Goes Drab in This Deflated CakeAlso co-starring Anna Kendrick as a ghost.
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    Movie Review: MortdecaiThis movie is not good!
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    Movie Reviews: The Humbling and MatchFrom Al Pacino as a spent, delusional old Shakespearean and Patrick Stewart as an aging dance professor.
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    Movie Review: Still AliceThis is the movie that Julianne Moore might finally win Best Actress for.
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    Movie Review: BlackhatStarring Thor as a hacker.
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    Clint Eastwood Turns American Sniper Into a Republican Platform MovieIt’s a cracker­jack piece of filmmaking, but the moral stakes are almost nonexistent.
  15. oscars
    Selma Was Robbed, and Other Unforgivable Oscar CrimesDavid Oyelowo gave the best male performance of the year.
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    Movie Review: PredestinationBy the directors of Daybreakers.
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    MLK Drama Selma Shows the Grunt Work That Went Into Making HistoryWith additional notes on historical accuracy.
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    Inherent Vice Is Groovy, Funny, and StrangeMaybe you need to get baked to be on its dissonant, erratic wavelength.
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    Movie Review: A Most Violent YearStarring Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain.
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    For Tim Burton, the Definition of Kitsch Is a Suspect One in Big EyesThe story of Margaret Keane, the monstrously successful painter of round-eyed waifs, and the husband, Walter, who took all of the credit.
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    The Interview Is a Truly Savage Work of SatireEdelstein interviews Edelstein about the Rogen-Franco black comedy.
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    Movie Review: Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken“The movie is one blow after another after another after another.”
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    In All the Ways That Matter, Annie Is a Giant Missed OpportunityJamie Foxx and Quvenzhané Wallis star in this updated version of the musical.
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    Reese Witherspoon Takes a 1,100-Mile Hike in the Remarkably Fluid WildCuts, bruises, and horrible hygiene have never looked so glamorous.
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    Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner Is Subtly TerrificIn this portrait of J.M.W. Turner, the grotesque and the sublime aren’t on opposite ends of the spectrum. They blend.
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    Emily Blunt Gives the Unwieldy Into the Woods Its HeartUntil its hairpin turn into the apocalyptic, the material is ingenious.
  27. The 11 Best Movies of 2014David Edelstein’s picks.
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    Movie Review: The BabadookAn astonishing debut film.
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    Cumberbatch’s Captivating Strangeness Elevates The Imitation GameHe is the one freaky touch in an otherwise conventional movie, but the conventions in this case work handsomely. 
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    Movie Review: Sandusky Scandal Doc Happy ValleyIt’s the rage of a mob against the media, national college-football officials, and even Sandusky’s victims for taking away what amounts to a religious ritual.
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    Movie Review: Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1What works most smashingly is the movie’s meta side. Much of Mockingjay centers on selling.
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    Dumb and Dumber To’s Badness Could Give You an UlcerA sequel to that first movie whose name we can’t remember.
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    Miles Teller Pounds the Skins, and Takes a Beating, in WhiplashThe title is dead-on.
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    Foxcatcher Is a True Crime Story Striving for SignificanceStarring Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, and Channing Tatum.
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    Rosewater Is a Rarity Among Political FilmsIn outline, Rosewater sounds earnest, one-note, relentless. But it turns out to be a sly, layered work.
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    Movie Review: The Theory of EverythingThis Oscar-bound film traces the life and loves of Stephen Hawking.
  37. The 16 Best Space Movies Since 2001: A Space OdysseyGalaxy Quest is one of them.
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    Movie Review: Christopher Nolan’s InterstellarHe aims for the stars, and the upshot is an infinite hoot.
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    The Only Surprise in Nightcrawler Is Its GrotesquenessHe’s veh-ry skerrrr-y, kiddies — ahwoooooooo!
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    Movie Review: CitizenfourThe story of Edward Snowden, from one of his contacts on the inside.
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    John Hawkes Is Quietly Marvelous in Low DownThe adaptation of the A.J. Albany memoir.
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    The Swedish Drama Force Majeure Is a Quiet AvalancheA spoiler-heavy review.
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    Zombies in the Time of Ebola: Why We Need Horror Movies Now More Than EverThey offer sharper, more acute versions of our worst-case scenarios, brilliant metaphors for what haunts us.
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    Listen Up Philip Asks, How Long Can You Watch a Terrible Person For?Jason Schwartzman plays an angry, impatient, verbally abusive novelist.
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    Movie Review: FuryStarring Brad Pitt as a WWII tank commander.
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    Birdman Is the Very Definition of a Tour de ForceDirector Alejandro González Iñárritu’s overheated technique meshes perfectly with the (enjoyable) overacting.
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    The Judge Is a Legal Thriller With No Drive or UrgencyStarring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall.
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    A Reporter Gets Torn Apart by His Own in Kill the MessengerStarring Jeremy Renner as a journalist who exposes government wrongdoing.
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    Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice Is Stubbornly ShapelessThe adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s novel is a gorgeous stoner art object, at once groovy and glacial.
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    David Fincher Puts Ben Affleck’s Evasiveness to Good Use in Gone GirlThe movie is phenomenally gripping—although it does leave you queasy and uncertain.
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