The gender-swapped spin-off of the trilogy of “Ocean’s” films hits all the satisfying elements of a heist movie, while offering the distinct pleasure of watching its insanely talented cast have a blast and look great doing it.
Cate Blanchett
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Film review: “Carol”
Director Todd Haynes knows his way around a melodrama, having worked within the confines of the genre in HBO’s “Mildred Pierce” miniseries as well as his exquisite Douglas Sirk pastiche, “Far From Heaven.” Haynes has a knack for recreating period dramas in a way that feels at once thoroughly modern and also like they might […]
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Film Review: “How to Train Your Dragon 2”
Released in 2010, the first “How to Train Your Dragon” movie has proven to be a singular entry in Dreamworks Animation’s filmography. The studio’s animation division is “The House That Shrek Built” through and through, and the majority of its output has been modeled on that first massive success: jokey tales laden with pop culture […]
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Woody Allen’s annual picture
Although he dutifully releases something like a film a year, and despite the reflexive gushing of the reviewers, Woody Allen has actually not produced a genuinely good movie in years, perhaps even decades. A good deal of his work ranges from abysmal — “Alice,” “Mighty Aphrodite,” “The Curse of the Jade Scorpion” — to the […]
