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Awkward anti-rom-com can't work out what kind of funny to be
What people fight about when they fight about love.
Two boys come of age in the Cabrini-Green housing project
The Internet-based social experiments of Josh Harris, the original dot-com visionary kid, are profiled in this cautionary documentary.
Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh star in a love story that's out of order, but eternal
The terror is coming from inside and outside the house
Tilda Swinton stars as the mother of a teen rampage killer who has a complicated relationship with her son.
Joaquin Phoenix is dynamic, Mark Wahlberg subdued, and Robert Duvall trusty in this otherwise redundant story about brothers on opposite sides of the law.
Growing up dysfunctional in this literary adaptation
Based on the book We Were Soldiers Once … and Young by Lt. General Hal Moore and Joe Galloway, this Vietnam history lesson initially steers clear of the overused Indochine tropes and instead focuses on one ...
In a blatant attempt to milk as many box office receipts out of the current dinosaur mania as possible, Steven Spielberg (as executive producer) offers up an animated alternative to Jurassic Park that is targeted especially ...
In this heartfelt comic drama, a wonderfully controlled Nicolas Cage plays a man who, despite the appearance of success, is despondent over his superficiality.
Former members of the Weather Underground still know a thing or two about "which way the wind blows" in this always timely documentary.
A magical rainy adventure in Tokyo with sympathy for the underdog
Remake is a sweet, if restrained, ode to found families
A darling of the past year's festival circuit, The Wedding Banquet wins fans with its sunny disposition as it turns a contemporary story about a marriage of convenience into a deft bedroom farce and humanist drama. ...
The film’s sour tone, unremarkable direction, and bewildering characterizations of sexuality and race will probably not not hurt the comedy's charm at the box office.
Inexplicable Fantasy Romances for the Harried Modern Gal 101 is a more fitting title for this shameless mediocrity.
The Wedding Gift is the true story of Diana Longden (Walters) who, suddenly and without warning, contracts an unclassifiable, mysterious disease. Throughout the course of the illness, her husband Deric (Broadbent) devotes the majority of his ...
A simmering thriller of international abduction and pursuit
A rom-com with a twist
As the lovelorn wedding planner Maria (Lopez) puts it, those who can't wed, plan. And those who can't produce smart, sexy material in keeping with the smart, sexy likes of Lopez and co-star/hometown boy Matthew McConaughey, ...
Kevin Hart and Josh Gad crank out this aggressively dumb and un-embarrassingly sophomoric wedding comedy.
I can't help but think that retro-Eighties nostalgia trips like this one would be a lot more effective had we all not been rehashing the whole Eighties music thing since January 1, 1990. I was sick ...
This earnest, well-acted ensemble film is a seriocomic meditation on what it means to be an American male approaching the dreaded four-oh.
Weed (1996, 64 min., NR) 




“Everybody must get stoned!” That should be the tagline for this frequently engrossing 64-minute documentary on the Eighth Annual Cannibis Cup & Hemp Expo held in (where else?) Amsterdam. Never in your life have you seen ...
Weekend (2011, 96 min., NR) 




This movie about a gay hookup that becomes something more is perceptive, emotional, comical, and much more.
Andrew McCarthy must die. But then we'd probably be seeing Weekend at Andy's, and the whole pathetic mess would continue on and on, like some hellish Mobius Strip. Better to let him live and suffer his ...
At last, a summer comedy with something to offend everyone: Weekend at Bernie's is a laugh riot featuring a dead body, a couple of despicable main characters, a funny hit man, and enough T&A to satisfy ...
Weiner (2016, 96 min., R) 




An eye-popping, jaw-dropping doc about sext-happy ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner