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Review of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 26 May 2016

Some of the franchise stalwarts, such as Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique, are given too little to do. Most are given too much…

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Review of Unlocking the Cage (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 26 May 2016

The filmmakers are clearly on Wise’s side, but they are also eminently fair…

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Review of Shutter Island (2010)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 26 May 2016

It comes on strong, but in its bloody heart of hearts it’s no more resonant than one of those old Vincent Price-Edgar Allan Poe contraptions…

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Review of Analyze That (2002)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 26 May 2016

Let's look at the bright side. If this movie bombs as it deserves to, we won't have to sit through Analyze Those a few years from now…

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Review of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 20 May 2016

Based on the 1938 novel by Winifred Watson, it's a deluxe romance that most of the time plays like farce…

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Review of The Nice Guys (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 19 May 2016

The violence is cartoonishly garish and the yuks are few…

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Review of Weiner (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 19 May 2016

What’s clear is that many of Weiner’s supporters within the mayoral campaign stuck with him only because of Abedin’s connection to the…

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Review of Maggie's Plan (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 19 May 2016

Writer-director Rebecca Miller never wrests her movie free of its associations with the films of Woody Allen and Noah Baumbach, and some of…

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Review of The Rules of Attraction (2002)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 18 May 2016

Most of the characters are one-dimensional, and Avary's over-the-top directing doesn't make them interesting for more than a few isolated moments…

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Review of The Gift (2000)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 17 May 2016

There's too much hokum and too little suspense in the screenplay by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson…

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Review of Serendipity (2001)

By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 14 May 2016

This exceedingly romantic comedy begins with flair but lapses into clichés long before the sentimental (and predictable) finale…

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Review of The Lobster (2015)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 12 May 2016

Lanthimos doesn’t have the directorial energy to stir this thick allegorical stew…

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Review of Money Monster (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 12 May 2016

Money Monster turns into an unintentional parody. Investing in this movie would not be a safe bet…

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Review of Dark Horse (2015)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 05 May 2016

Louise Osmond's Dark Horse is a slight but winning documentary about a most unlikely event, and I hope Hollywood doesn't get wind of it…

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Review of Captain America: Civil War (2016)

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

The action, directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, is thuddingly effective without being terribly imaginative, but at least it’s not in the clobber-the-audience…

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Review of The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)

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

Irons gives a deft performance as a man who is both entranced and flummoxed by his disciple, but the role itself is in most ways skimpily conceived…

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Review of The Family Fang (2016)

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

The movie captures so well the push-pull of family dysfunction that, after a while, even the Fangs’ extreme eccentricities seem routine…

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Review of Elvis & Nixon (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Apr 2016

Given the high quotient of hypotheticals in the story line, Nixon & Elvis can’t really be said to add to the historical record, but it’s…

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Review of A Hologram for the King (2016)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 21 Apr 2016

It’s a sweet, deliberately meandering movie, and it took me a while to connect with it…

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Review of Bee Season (2005)

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

Bee Season, at its core, is about something powerful: The ways in which family members wreak destruction on each other with the best of intentions…

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