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Carol a modern masterpiece

Movie review: Carol Todd Haynes creates a modern masterpiece that speaks directly to the female experience without words thanks to the silent chemistry between stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara  
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Every Thing Will Be Fine, not great

Movie Review: Every Thing Will Be Fine German filmmaker Wim Wenders turns the Canadian landscape into a snow globe with 3D technology, and a cast that includes Rachel McAdams, Marie-Josée Croze and the near-omnipresent James Franco
3Score

Movie review: In The Heart of the Sea, or Call Me Later, Ishmael

Movie review: In the Heart of the Sea Ron Howard turns the story of a famous whaling tragedy — which inspired the novel Moby-Dick — into a slick but distant maritime adventure that becomes a dark tale of survival
3Score

Digging two Pitts By the Sea

Movie Review: By the Sea Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt look to the black and white classic starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in this flat, contrived and utterly self-conscious piece of cinema that isn't afraid of Virginia Woolf, or dark satire
2.5Score

Youth ages the viewer via affectation

Movie review: Youth Paolo Sorrentino's follow-up to The Great Beauty feels like opera sung in English: Pretentious, puffy and frequently plain stupid
4Score

Hitchcock and Truffaut offer film 101

Movie Review: Documentary about a groundbreaking book shows how the legendary film director thought about movies, audiences — and Jimmy Stewart's erection in Vertigo
3.5Score

Creed knows where it’s coming from

Movie Review: Creed Fruitvale Station's Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan reunite in Creed, an elegant and surprisingly emotional reboot of the Rocky franchise
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Victor Frankenstein: Prom Date Unbound

Movie review: Victor Frankenstein James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe pick up the loose body parts of Mary Shelley's Gothic classic and sew together a whole new story about the dangers of unbridled creativity.
3Score

Movie review: Legend a showcase for actor Tom Hardy

The story of the 1960s gangsters the Kray twins doesn't have much to add to the genre, but it provides a chance to see the great actor Tom Hardy at work
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The Secret in Their Eyes lacks vision

Julia Roberts removes makeup in U.S. remake The Oscar-winning film from Argentina gets an American reboot with the help of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman and the star of Pretty Woman, but director Billy Ray fails to craft the chaos in a meaningful way