Channing Tatum and Adam Driver star as West Virginia brothers in need of a big score in Steven Soderbergh’s latest.
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How Hail, Caesar! handles Hollywood history
The Coen brothers’ latest film is a fever dream of the Red-baiting right.
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Magic Mike XXL is the best new movie of 1933
The sequel to Steven Soderbergh’s 2012 sleeper hit invokes the spirit of Depression-era musicals in its breezy artistry.
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Money can’t buy you brains (in a sex comedy)
Three new summer releases indicate that all raunch and no smarts make for a dull film.
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Your moment of Zen, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Our top picks for fall movies
Our top picks for fall movies: Young Charlton Heston in a Chicago-shot Julius Caesar, Jon Stewart’s directorial debut, and more
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Further thoughts on 22 Jump Street, devils, and cartoons
How The Wolf of Wall Street and The Lego Movie made me change my tune on the Jonah Hill-Channing Tatum comedy series.
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Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Armageddon is just the beginning in This Is the End
In This Is the End, Seth Rogen and pals go surfing on the Lake of Fire.
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Getting by in four recent American comedies
Comparing Bernie, Magic Mike, Moonrise Kingdom, and Silver Linings Playbook in terms of style and themes
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The aesthetics of crap, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Now playing: Magic Mike and a new generation of “bad news”
A short review of the male stripper comedy directed, improbably, by Steven Soderbergh