While there’s never really a sense of true danger for our heroes, we get just enough of the range of CGI dinosaurs and their weird traits to keep the film entertaining.
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Greta Gerwig celebrates feminism with Little Women
The latest adaptation gives the March sisters more power than ever.
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Marriage Story doesn’t pick sides
Noah Baumbach’s latest film about divorce shows both parents not as enemies but as humans
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Ray Kroc is a fast-food evangelist in The Founder
Michael Keaton stars in this biopic of the man who made McDonald’s.
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With Certain Women, writer-director Kelly Reichardt heads for Montana—and loses her way
With Certain Women, writer-director Kelly Reichardt heads for Montana—and loses her way.
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Ten best bets for fall movies
Oliver Stone tells the Snowden story, Nate Parker tells the Nat Turner story, and Ewan McGregor tries to tell Philip Roth’s story, plus other highlights.
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Ramin Bahrani returns with 99 Homes, one of the best films of the year
Michael Shannon and Andrew Garfield star in this brutal examination of the subprime mortgage meltdown.
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Michael Shannon is a ruthless real estate broker in Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes
Iranian-American filmmaker Ramin Bahrani has emerged as our answer to the Dardenne brothers, a proven storyteller with a deep loyalty to the underclass. Man Push Cart (2005) told of a Pakistani rock singer reduced to peddling coffee and bagels on the streets of Manhattan; Chop Shop (2007) focused on two Puerto Rican siblings scavenging metal […]
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In Wild, Laura Dern and Reese Witherspoon play characters with a unique mother-daughter bond
A mother and daughter, separated by a generation of feminist thought.
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Young love, old bones, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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What do you get when you take the dinosaurs out of Jurassic Park?
Comparing the Steven Spielberg blockbuster, currently playing in a new 3-D version, to Uncle Vanya and the classic Polish drama The Structure of Crystals
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Lost, lost, lost …
If you’re still puzzling over Laura Dern’s performance in Inland Empire, rest assured that she is too.