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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.
'A Woman's Life' director鈥檚 poeticism is overly protracted'Life' is聽set in the Normandy countryside in the first half of the 1800s and is based on Guy de Maupassant鈥檚 first novel, 鈥淟鈥橦umble V茅rit茅,鈥� or 鈥淭he Humble Truth.'
Now playing: Hollywood鈥檚 dystopian view of Silicon ValleyThe new film 'The Circle' and the HBO series 'Silicon Valley' both turn a critical eye on the prevailing tech culture in Northern California that increasingly defines modern life.
In 鈥楪raduation,鈥� personal and political are inseparableAlthough the film, starring Adrian Titieni, Lia Bugnar, and Maria Dragus, is set in Romania, its moral quandaries could be taking place anywhere.
'A Quiet Passion' won't encourage viewers to seek out Emily Dickinson's poetryCynthia Nixon stars as a sour and embittered Emily Dickinson in Terence Davies's film.聽Jennifer Ehle as Emily鈥檚 sister and Keith Carradine as her indulgently authoritarian father help somewhat to thaw out the proceedings.
John Coltrane documentary 'Chasing Trane' has stunning concert, music clipsThe terrific documentary, directed by John Scheinfeld, traces the career of the great saxophonist and composer.
'Tramps' is remarkably fresh, as are its leads'Tramps' stars Callum Turner as Danny, who is implicated by his brother in a shady deal. Grace Van Patten and Michal Vondel costar.
'Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer' has too much NormanRichard Gere stars as Norman Oppenheimer, who is an aspiring businessman but doesn't appear to have anything to offer anybody except empty promises.
'Tommy's Honour' is a conventional movie about unconventional people'Honour' stars Peter Mullan and Jack Lowden as Tom Morris and his son, Tommy, who are two of the founders of modern golf. A few of the father-son tussles are powerful.
'The Lost City of Z' is only fitfully successful as a psychological portrait of a burgeoning obsessive'Lost' stars Charlie Hunnam as聽Lt. Col. Percival Fawcett, a聽real-life British Army officer who obsessively sought to uncover the ancient civilization he believed was buried in the Amazonian jungle.
'Going in Style' is a clunky escapade enlivened only by its three leads'Style' stars聽Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin as three former factory workers whose pensions are dissolved, inciting them to rob a bank for restitution.