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The Shape of Water

Go ahead and dive in

Lucky

Goodbye, Harry

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

With no intelligent life on any of them

Downsizing

Too much and not enough

Coco

Animated empowerment

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

Political procedural

The Greatest Showman

How about an adequate one?

The Big Sick

Serious cross-cultural hilarity

Whisky Galore

Twee and tweedy set

A Perfect Day

Wit and wisdom in a war zone

The Dark Tower

Failed fantasy

Lady Bird

Greta Gerwig has been my favorite actor since Frances Ha. Now she’s my favorite director. The coming-of-age dramedy is about as worked-out a genre as they come. So when a film this honest comes along and makes it all fresh and surprising, it’s worth a look. The actor/writer/director’s keenly observed, semi-autobiographical story of growing up […]

The Commuter

A freshly fired, cash-strapped, ex-NYC-cop insurance salesman is anonymously offered, during his homeward commute, a ton of money to locate on the train a possible witness to a murder. It’s an offer he can’t refuse. He then realizes, considerably later than even the dullest audience member, that he has been set up. And he’s going […]

Unlocked

An expert but spiritually wounded CIA interrogator, or “unlocker” (Noomi Rapace), realizes she’s being set up, and has to run for her life, negotiating a veritable forest of lame plot twists and espionage-flick tropes (digital readouts counting down, etc.) to prevent a biological attack on London. The supporting cast includes a man-bunned Orlando Bloom and […]

Eye on Juliet

Robot spiders to the rescue

The Boss Baby

Baby formula

Tomb Raider

Watching someone else play a video game

The Post

Weaponizing nostalgia

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