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A superhero CPA in Ben Affleck's 'The Accountant'

Saturday, 5 November 2016, 14:58 Last update: about 10 years ago

In Gavin O'Connor's "The Accountant," starring Ben Affleck, the paper-pushing CPA - roughly the exact opposite of Schwarzenegger or Stallone - gets his shot at action hero stardom. If we pull out our...

Ang Lee unveils his hyper-real 'Billy Lynn' to mixed reviews

Friday, 4 November 2016, 14:57 Last update: about 10 years ago

Mixed reviews greeted Ang Lee's long anticipated "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" at the New York Film Festival on Friday night, casting further doubts over the promise of Hollywood's...

'Girl on the Train' doesn't stay on the rails

Wednesday, 2 November 2016, 14:53 Last update: about 10 years ago

Tate Taylor's "The Girl on the Train" may be technically set in the Westchester suburb of Ardsley-on-Hudson, but its cocktail of commuter trains, marital infidelity and alcoholism make its...

A boy comes of age in achingly powerful 'Moonlight'

Tuesday, 1 November 2016, 14:47 Last update: about 10 years ago

"Moonlight " is as wistful a film as its title might suggest. Director Barry Jenkins, in only his second feature, has created a singularly powerful and masterfully restrained work of art about a...

Christopher Guest's 'Mascots' fails to really cheer

Friday, 28 October 2016, 13:25 Last update: about 10 years ago

It should be a match made in comedy heaven - director and writer Christopher Guest, whose fake documentary films explore the sad desperation in American subcultures, turns his attention to the wacky...

Dern, Williams are spellbinding in 'Certain Women'

Thursday, 27 October 2016, 13:24 Last update: about 10 years ago

"Certain Women" is a quiet, introspective film about three women living and existing in a frozen Montana town. Does it sound dull? Sure. But on the screen it plays out like a slow-burning folk song...

In 'Voyage,' the history of life on a very big screen

Wednesday, 26 October 2016, 13:23 Last update: about 10 years ago

About 20 years ago, Andrew Knoll, a professor of natural history and NASA consultant, was sitting in his office at Harvard when he got a strange phone call. "The person on the other end of the...

New doc shows militarization of US police from the inside

Tuesday, 25 October 2016, 13:22 Last update: about 10 years ago

The documentary "Do Not Resist" provides a timely look at the state of policing in the United States, from the escalation of SWAT raids to the unregulated technology police departments are...

'Birth of a Nation' bluntly tells tale of Nat Turner

Monday, 24 October 2016, 13:20 Last update: about 10 years ago

When the film about Nat Turner and his 1831 slave rebellion premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, it was held up, unfairly or not, as everyone's great hope to save us from another year of...

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