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Hongi (James Rolleston) shows his skills in The Dead Lands

Movie review: The Dead Lands a bit of Maori brutalism

New Zealand movie examines an ancient tribal culture of revenge and honor, although it seems more interested in the fights, writes Jay Stone

May 27, 2015

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Movie review: Dancing Arabs an Israeli balancing act

An Arab teenager tries to find his way in Jewish society in a film about the human cost of Middle East tensions

May 23, 2015

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Welcome to Me, Myself and Whaa?

Movie Review: Welcome to Me Kristen Wiig pulls off the impossible as a mentally ill lottery winner in Shira Piven's dark satire set in the selfie-obsessed post-Oprah age

May 22, 2015

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Tomorrowland artist rendering with jet pack

Movie review: Tomorrowland

Disney pushes all the happy buttons in a quest to bring a silver lining to our cloudy future in the Vancouver-shot fantasy that stars George Clooney as a brainy curmudgeon

May 22, 2015

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Movie review: Banksy does New York in style

A documentary about the street artist in the big city becomes an inquiry into the meaning of art, Jay Stone writes

May 21, 2015

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Movie review: Mad Max assaults the senses

George Miller choreographs visual chaos with an eye for the absurd in fire and blood reboot of the Mad Max franchise

May 16, 2015

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Seymour Bernstein from Ethan Hawke's documentary Seymour: An Introduction

Movie Review: Seymour – An Introduction

Ethan Hawke steps behind the camera to direct a lovely, purposefully small movie that gently dusts the edges of existential angst as it animates the life of pianist Seymour Bernstein

May 13, 2015

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Reese Witherspoon plays up her boyish charms in Hot Pursuit

Movie review: Hot Pursuit yields tepid results

Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara do their best to inflate sagging entry in the bosom buddies comedy genre, but the results are tepid at best

May 8, 2015

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Church of Scientology sign downtown Los Angeles

Movie review: Going Clear — Scientology and the Prison of Belief

Alex Gibney's latest non-fiction film proves perfectly creepy as it strips L. Ron Hubbard's cupboard bare, and shows us Tom Cruise as marionette mascot

May 8, 2015

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Carey Mulligan and Tom Sturridge play a game in a Hollow Amid the Ferns in Far From the Madding Crowd

Movie review: Far from the Madding Crowd

Carey Mulligan and Danish director Thomas Vinterberg combine forces to bring the perfect practical touch to Thomas Hardy's pastoral classic, writes Katherine Monk

May 8, 2015