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Despite having enough material for three separate movies, this story about a harried female inventor satisfies on multiple levels thanks to the...

The spiritual struggle in Concussion is one all believers confront to some degree—how to open people's eyes when they are too comfortable with a...

Few modern films attempt a truly grand scale set in the real wilderness. Fewer still actually pull it off. The Revenant dares the first and, to its...

On the surface, it would seem to deliver on every Christian movie cliché imaginable. Instead, the film draws its audience into a rich narrative...

Blanchett may be considered an Oscar frontrunner for her performance, but Carol, about a lesbian love affair in the 1950s, is pretty scant on...

This movie would've been so much better if the leads had switched roles. As it is, it's neither edgy enough for the comedy crowd, or friendly...

Like a well-staged morality play that’s far more entertaining than preachy, this film asks the big questions The Wolf of Wall Street never quite...

After the excitement and energy of the first act, the film - one of the best in the series and much easier to follow than the prequels - develops...

There's more to this story than cute critters, catchy music and groan-worthy jokes. It touches on the fear of abandonment common to adopted...

Underneath all the smut is a well-performed dramedy about a wildly dysfunctional family that somehow manages to learn how to function.

The whale attack and a framing device featuring Herman Melville en route to writing Moby Dick are interesting, but the rest of the film fails to...

It’s a moody piece and the design reflects that, full of fog and damp and the wild. But there are some pacing problems and Fassbender's title...

It could've been timely satire. Instead, it falls flat in every possible way: shockingly unfunny with a point of view so tepid and timid that...

Basically the Catholic version of the Faith Based Film, its fascinating subject - Mother Teresa and her writings - ends up making for only a...

While The Good Dinosaur certainly has all the pieces of a classic Pixar film, they never quite form a unified whole.