Andrew Lapin
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Director Gore Verbinski leans on tried-and-true horror visuals to provide this film, set in a sinister Alpine spa, with its scares. But at 2 1/2 hours, patient fatigue sets in early.
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Screenwriter Patrick Ness adapts his YA novel about a monster who helps a boy deal with his mother's illness. The result is a film that confronts grief in a gratifyingly unsentimental way.
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Our critic adores this small, sharply observed film starring Annette Bening, Elle Fanning and Greta Gerwig as boarding-house residents who shape the life of a young man (Lucas Jade Zumann) in 1979.
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Director/star Denzel Washington faithfully adapts August Wilson's searing, Pulitzer-winning play. The brilliant result is "moviemaking as public service," says critic Andrew Lapin.
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Critic Andrew Lapin says Disney's new animated film Moanabuilds a lush visual world for its young Polynesian heroine and makes its most honest effort yet at appreciating the culture where it's set.
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Amy Adams plays a linguist recruited to translate the language of mysterious alien visitors in a twisty, sophisticated sci-fi thriller from director Denis Villeneuve ( Prisoners, Sicario).
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Iranian-born director Babak Anvari's tale of motherhood and madness one-ups 2014's thematically similar The Babadook by bringing a larger sociopolitical context to the creepy goings-on.
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Kate Winslet plays a woman with designs to punish the townsfolk who once wronged her in this tonally confused Australian comedy.
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Stripped-down storytelling, stunning cinematography and finely calibrated performances make this tale of a withdrawn lighthouse keeper and his wife vivid and compelling.
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Based on the real story of Barack and Michelle Obama's first date, Southside With Youfollows two young idealists through a day together without relying too heavily on winks at their future.