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- 'Cars 3' is reasonably diverting but somewhat sluggishThe movie attempts to bring back the heart of the first installment, but talk in the film of retirement and the good old days will make kids and adults alike fidgety.
- 'The Mummy' is a tentpole production with nothing under the tentThe latest and lackluster reboot of the 'Mummy' story has mediocre CGI warfare. Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella, and Jake Johnson star.
- Sam Elliott and Laura Prepon are quietly effective in 'The Hero'The film stars Elliott as an over-the-hill actor who was recently diagnosed with cancer. In family scenes, director Brett Haley and co-writer Marc Basch don鈥檛 plow any new dramatic ground.
- When sparks fly in 'Beatriz at Dinner,' it's entertaining but not surprisingSalma Hayek stars as a masseuse/holistic healer who clashes with a famously boorish billionaire (John Lithgow) during a dinner.聽Lithgow is so good at playing CEO oiliness that you have to smile.
- Footage in documentary 鈥楧awson City: Frozen Time鈥 is all fascinatingThe poetic documentary directed by Bill Morrison that traces the history of the gold mining town from its earlier origins with First Nation peoples to the advent of the gold rush in 1896 up through roughly contemporary times.
- 'My Cousin Rachel' star Rachel Weisz freshens up the Gothic storyThe film, which is based on a novel by Daphne du Maurier, rises or falls on the casting of Rachel. With Weisz, it ascends to heights it might ordinarily never reach.
- First Look鈥榃onder Woman鈥 stirs social media as most tweeted-about film of 2017The film depicting Amazonian heroine 鈥榃onder Woman鈥 has shattered Hollywood鈥檚 glass ceiling, simultaneously becoming the best-selling female-directed film in its opening weekend and聽the most tweeted-about film in 2017.聽
- Uneven 'Churchill' feels more like an expos茅 than a deep-dish psychological explorationBrian Cox is the latest to portray the legendary politician and the actor brings the private Churchill to the fore.聽The film becomes more about Churchill鈥檚 battle to conquer himself than about the Allies鈥 battle to defeat the Nazis.
- 'Wonder Woman' has a frisky, friendly spiritStars Gal Gadot and Chris Pine share a charming chemistry and director Patty Jenkins and screenwriter Allan Heinberg don't overdose on the violence, despite the film's World War I setting.
- In intensely harrowing 'Afterimage,' Stalinist repression shatters artist鈥檚 lifeThe Polish avant-garde painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski (Boguslaw Linda in a magisterial performance)聽is the subject of Andrzej Wajda鈥檚 final film.聽
- With low expectations, 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales' is amusingSome of the movie gets oppressive, but聽Javier Bardem is scary-funny as the phantasmal pirate-hunter Captain Salazar and a stormy sea-parting finale is impressive.
- 'Baywatch' has a disposable plotThe film stars Dwayne Johnson, Kelly Rohrbach, and Zac Efron as a two-time Olympic gold-medal swimmer.聽
- 'Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story' revives story of little-known movie coupleStoryboard artist and production designer Harold Michelson and his wife, Lillian, a legendary researcher, are the subjects of the documentary. Both made聽integral contributions to some of the most iconic movies in Hollywood history.
- 'Alien: Covenant' is more interesting than 'Prometheus' but still a retreadIn 'Covenant,'聽the only protagonist of any interest is Michael Fassbender鈥檚 humanoid. The film stars Billy Crudup and Katherine Waterston.
- 'The Commune' actress Trine Dyrholm is the only reason to see filmThe film, about friends who create a commune to experiment with a new way of living, is relatively conventional. It also stars聽Ulrich Thomsen and聽Martha Sofie Wallstrom Hansen.
- 鈥楾he Wedding Plan鈥 is both unorthodox and ultra-OrthodoxAn American-Israeli director follows up her earlier movie success with a rom-com about a woman who tries to find a suitor to marry on a schedule.
- 鈥楢ngkor Awakens: A Portrait of Cambodia鈥 does justice to an anguished historyRobert Lieberman鈥檚 documentary focuses on the devastation wrought by the Pol Pot regime and the Khmer Rouge right up to Cambodia鈥檚 present.
- 鈥楰ing Arthur: Legend of the Sword鈥 lands with a thudThe movie is compulsively watchable, but it鈥檚 watchable in the same way as a massive train wreck or the slow-motion demolition of a high-rise.
- Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn team up for 鈥楽natched鈥In the action comedy, the costars play a mother and daughter who are kidnapped while vacationing in Ecuador. Hawn hasn鈥檛 been in a movie in 15 years.
- In 'The Lovers,' Debra Winger's intensity is too much for goofy grab bag of a movieThe movie stars Winger and Tracy Letts as a deeply dissatisfied husband and wife. 'The Lovers'聽is pitched uneasily between slapstick comedy and stark drama.