Of course Michael Moore exaggerates. Of course he engages in cheerful, unabashed cherry-picking. Of course he sees black and white where most of us see shades of gray.
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If you are an extreme sports junkie, “Point Break” is cocaine. If you are a fan of good writing, it’s a placebo.
This “Point Break” is less of a remake and more of a re-...
LOS ANGELES — Alejandro G. Inarritu knew Leonardo DiCaprio would go to the ends of the earth to make the 19th century survival epic “The Revenant” exactly as the famousl...
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s frontier survival saga “The Revenant,” filmed in the Canadian Rockies, seeks to join the ranks of Werner Herzog’s “Fitzcarraldo” and Franci...
“Concussion,” written and directed by Peter Landesman, establishes two things right away - the extreme reverence that people have for football, through a Hall of Fame ac...
The marketing campaign for the new David O. Russell film “Joy,” starring Jennifer Lawrence, has been extremely nervous about bringing down the party with the word “mop.”...
Can the eager viewers of the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” trailer who saw it 112 million times online be all wrong? What about the true believers who purchased $50 mil...
LOS ANGELES — Ron Howard’s “In the Heart of the Sea” is a curious beast. The ambitions are as big as a whale; the results are an earnest wreck. It could possibly work if...
In adapting the 2010 financial crisis book “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine” by Michael Lewis, the director of “Anchorman” doesn’t seem like the first choice....
Climbing the power ladder is a bloody, bruising business, and that is nevermore so starkly rendered than in Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth....
