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- In 'Downsizing,' confounding expectations only goes so far'Downsizing' stars Matt Damon as a man living in a world where聽scientists have come up with a way to shrink humans as a way to save the planet from overconsumption.
The 10 best movies of 2017Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' was the most astonishing writing-directing debut in years, while 'The Florida Project,' about wayfarers living week to week in run-down budget motels outside Disney World, is one of the most lyrical evocations of childhood our critic has ever seen.
'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' is, like the other films in the series, a soap opera in spaceThe latest installment is about on par with the enjoyable 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens.'聽Writer-director Rian Johnson does a creditable, if uninspired, job.
鈥楧unkirk鈥� won box office 鈥� is an Oscar next?The film is now one of the 10 domestically highest-grossing movies of the year. As a historical drama, it stands in sharp contrast to such fellow Top 10 list occupiers as the remake of 'Beauty and the Beast' and superhero movies 'Wonder Woman' and 'Spider-Man: Homecoming.'
鈥業, Tonya鈥� skips Harding鈥檚 love of skating for fatuous ironyMargot Robbie stars as Tonya Harding in a film that is聽all smirk and wink.
'1945' is a compact study of wartime guiltAs a Hungarian village prepares for a wedding after V-E Day, two strangers arrive.
Parts of 'The Shape of Water' recall films like Cocteau鈥檚 'Beauty and the Beast'The cold-war melodrama featuring Michael Shannon, as a big bad government agent, is less interesting than the relationship between the mute Elisa (Sally Hawkins), a night-shift janitor, and the mysterious merman captured in the Amazon.
In 'Wonder Wheel,' Woody Allen's latest, the characters are too thinly drawn'Wonder Wheel' stars Kate Winslet as Ginny,聽a waitress in a clam house who had ambitions to be an actress. Justin Timberlake, Juno Temple, and Jim Belushi co-star.
Romantic film 'Call Me by Your Name' is too determinedly soothingThe film centers on the romance between teenager聽Elio (Timoth茅e Chalamet)聽and Oliver (Armie Hammer), a grad student who has arrived for a summer internship with Elio鈥檚 father (Michael Stuhlbarg).
Gary Oldman takes on the oft-played role of Winston Churchill for biopic 鈥楧arkest Hour鈥�The film聽follows the prime minister after the 1940 election. Kristin Scott Thomas and Stephen Dillane co-star.
Spangly 'Coco' has moments as powerful as anything in the Pixar canonThe animation, under the direction of Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina, doesn鈥檛 quite expand into the full-blown magical realist lyricism that seems to have been intended.
Lives of a black and a white family intertwine post-WWII in 鈥楳udbound鈥�The film, which is directed and co-written by Dee Rees, is admirable in its ambitions, but less so in its execution.
Docs in Progress gives documentaries a boostThe organization, based in Silver Spring, Md., offers screenings and courses on the nuts and bolts of filming, editing, and production. 'I think that documentaries do have a potential to really have a huge impact,' says聽executive director聽Erica Ginsberg.
Frances McDormand is too spartan and sealed off in 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'The most interesting character in the movie is Sheriff Bill Willoughby, and that鈥檚 largely because actor Woody Harrelson is so moving in the part.
'Lady Bird' is frisky and oddball, which is sometimes annoying and more often ingratiatingThe adolescent coming-of-age pangs experienced by Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan), to which we can all relate in some measure, are timeless and the movie is best when it undercuts its own seriousness
Rigorously conventional 鈥楲ast Flag Flying鈥� has few surprisesThere is a pleasingness to the predictability of the film, which stars Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, and Laurence Fishburne as Vietnam veterans.
'Suburbicon' is an uneasy mixture of noir and socially conscious filmThe movie compares poorly to the recent movie 鈥楪et Out.鈥�
Todd Haynes's direction in 'Wonderstruck' keeps plot at emotional removeThe film follows聽a 12-year-old boy (Oakes Fegley) and a 12-year-old girl (Millicent Simmonds) whose stories are told contrapuntally 50 years apart, his in the vibrantly colored New York City of 1977, hers in the black-and-white New York of 1927.
Documentary brings Goodall鈥檚 story to vivid life in 鈥楯ane鈥�We are so used to seeing reenactments in documentaries of this sort that to see footage of real chimpanzees is both unnerving and exhilarating.
'The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)' is wide-ranging, self-indulgentThe new movie is聽writer-director Noah Baumbach鈥檚 latest foray into nattery family dysfunction.
