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Review of Moana (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 23 Nov 2016

I rue the day when this becomes a Broadway musical…

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Review of Pretty Woman (1990)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Nov 2016

The silly script lurches from one jarring, implausible moment to another, and Marshall directs like he was wearing earplugs and boxing gloves…

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Review of The Girl from Monday (2005)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 20 Nov 2016

There's heavy influence from the Brave New World brand of dystopian fantasy, but engaging performances and a stylized visual approach lend…

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Review of Nocturnal Animals (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 18 Nov 2016

The only performances worth discussing are delivered by the always excellent Michael Shannon, the Texas detective who tries to set things right,…

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Review of Manchester by the Sea (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 18 Nov 2016

A movie about unremitting grief and yet it has a boisterousness, a comic twirl, that makes it much truer to the zigzags of life than most similarly…

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Review of Off the Rails (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 18 Nov 2016

It provides us with a window into the psyche of a person worth caring about…

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Review of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 18 Nov 2016

The film is fine enough to make you forgive, if not forget, the fact that it exists primarily as a corporate enterprise and not as an imaginative…

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Review of Arrival (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 11 Nov 2016

Unless there’s something truly momentous going on, I prefer my sci-fi to be a lot more weightless than weighty…

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Review of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 11 Nov 2016

This is a technological breakthrough, all right, but a breakthrough to what…

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Review of Anywhere but Here (1999)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 08 Nov 2016

The story is a sort of Stella Dallas Meets Slums of Beverly Hills, helped by heartfelt acting from its talented stars…

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Review of Jurassic Park III (2001)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 04 Nov 2016

The screenplay is so stale that even fans of the previous Jurassic installments might think this is one clone too many…

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Review of The Story of Us (1999)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 04 Nov 2016

Audiences may want their own speedy divorce from this irritating collection of stale jokes, pointless vulgarities, and warmed-over clichés…

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Review of Loving (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 04 Nov 2016

Loving is a decent and heartfelt movie that, rarity of rarity these days, suffers from being too decent and heartfelt…

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Review of Doctor Strange (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 04 Nov 2016

Allow me a quick lament: Do we really want to see a great actor like Cumberbatch, not to mention Chiwetel Ejiofor and Tilda Swinton, entombed…

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Review of Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 04 Nov 2016

The war scenes in Hacksaw Ridge, which take up almost half the screen time, are almost on a level with the D-Day invasion sequence from “Saving…

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Review of Interview with the Assassin (2002)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 03 Nov 2016

No JFK, but the story is weirdly compelling when it focuses on the journalist's growing paranoia as he plunges ever more deeply into a world…

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Review of Presumed Guilty: Tales of the Public Defenders (2002)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 02 Nov 2016

The movie's TV-style production values are a little too slick, but the real-life stories are fascinating to watch…

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Review of Minority Report (2002)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 01 Nov 2016

Its most vivid scenes -- a visit with an insane ophthalmologist, a showdown at Anderton's supposed crime scene -- have the kind of anything-goes…

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Review of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 31 Oct 2016

Being touted as the first film ever shot in the Smithsonian complex. With any luck, it will also be the last…

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Review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 28 Oct 2016

How does all this play out for those of us – i.e., me – who have not been staying up nights fretting over the origins of the X-Men and…

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