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'Straight Outta Compton' is brashly winning but also self-serving'Compton' tells the story of how the pioneering hip-hop group N.W.A. came to be and stars actors including Jason Mitchell, Corey Hawkins, and O'Shea Jackson Jr., who portrays his father, Ice Cube. The film's聽talented young cast handles the heavy weight of playing icons with unusual skill.
'Mistress America': The dialogue and the characters should be sharperDirector and co-writer Noah Baumbach has a good eye for middle-class/upper-class pretensions, and the cast is spirited.
'Ricki and the Flash': A look at Meryl Streep's movie musical pastStreep stars in the movie as Ricki, a musician who left her family to pursue her rock and roll dream. 'I don't think I have the nerve to get up in front of people myself and sing but... give me a character and I'll sing,' the actress said.
'Fantastic Four': The movie is an experiment that didn't gelThe film, which is directed by Josh Trank and stars Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, and Jamie Bell, feels like a teaser trailer for a more exciting follow-up.聽
'Fantastic Four' has pallid plotting and cheesy effectsThe new superhero movie stars Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, and Jamie Bell as a group of young adults who achieve superpowers through a teleportation mishap and face off with Victor Von Doom (Toby Kebbell).
'The Diary of a Teenage Girl': The way it treats risqu茅 material is a cop-outThe film stars Bel Powley as Minnie, who embarks on an affair with the boyfriend (Alexander Skarsgard) of her mother (Kristen Wiig).聽
'The End of the Tour' captures the relationship between writing and celebrity'Tour' stars Jason Segel as David Foster Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as the Rolling Stone journalist profiling him. The movie also gets at the wariness and competitiveness inside the journalist-interviewee dynamic.
'Ricki and the Flash' is just another movie about families gone wildScreenwriter Diablo Cody doesn't bring anything terribly distinctive to the mix when it comes to the family's squabblings in the movie and rocker Ricki (Meryl Streep) seems more of a contrivance despite Streep's best efforts.
'The End of the Tour' stars Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg discuss idols, fame'Tour' stars Segel as author David Foster Wallace and Eisenberg as journalist David Lipsky, who is working on a profile of the author during the film.聽
'Mission: Impossible 鈥� Rogue Nation' stunts: What Tom Cruise is thinking?'Rogue' stars Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt, who finds his Impossible Mission Force organization endangered and must continue to save the world regardless.
'Mission: Impossible 鈥� Rogue Nation' makes the audience feel for the characters'Rogue' is underwhelming compared to its predecessor 'Mission: Impossible 鈥� Ghost Protocol,' but writer-director Christopher McQuarrie is good at interpersonal stuff.
'Best of Enemies' is a terrific documentary about the Vidal-Buckley debatesThe documentary looks at the televised debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley and the acrimonious relationship between the two.
'Listen to Me Marlon' is an amazing look at the legendary thespianThe documentary directed by Stevan Riley is an unprecedented voyage into the tortuous life of our greatest actor
How the star and director of 'Southpaw' trained for boxing together'Southpaw' stars actor Jake Gyllenhaal as a lightweight boxing champion. Gyllenhaal trained for the role with the movie's director Antoine Fuqua, who engaged in many of the same exercises as his star.
'Paper Towns' is a mild coming-of-age tale'Paper' stars Nat Wolff as Quentin, who is fascinated with his neighbor Margo (Cara Delevingne) and who convinces his friends to help him find Margo when she disappears.
'The Look of Silence' returns to the disturbing story told in 'Act of Killing''Killing' director Joshua Oppenheimer examines again the story of how almost a million Indonesian citizens were killed by the government and its cohorts. This new movie focuses on a man whose brother was killed in the massacres.
'The Outrageous Sophie Tucker' justifies its subject's fleeting fameThe documentary about the singer, who was famous during the late 1920s and '30s, could have used more performance footage.聽
'Southpaw': Jake Gyllenhaal as a boxer makes the movie watchableDirector Antoine Fuqua and screenwriter Kurt Sutter pummel the audience with hoary boxing movie clich茅s, but this is probably the best star Rachel McAdams has been in a movie and she and Gyllenhaal have an intense chemistry.
Alex Rocco starred as a casino owner in 'The Godfather'Rocco starred as the 'Godfather' character Moe Green and also appeared in the film 'Get Shorty' as well as on 'The Simpsons' and the Starz series 'Magic City.' Rocco called his 'Godfather' role 'without a doubt, my biggest ticket anywhere.'
'Ant-Man' director: Superhero tale is 'a street-level story... I hadn't really seen''Ant-Man' stars Paul Rudd as Scott Lang, a thief who gets a high-tech suit from a scientist (Michael Douglas) and works with the scientist's daughter (Evangeline Lilly) to take down an adversary with some special technology of his own (Corey Stoll). The movie is in theaters now.
