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Jay Stone and Katherine Monk. Definitive reviews. Trusted critics.

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The Night Before leaves blurry impression

Superbad with seasonal wrapping Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie and Joseph Gordon-Levitt rip a page from Charles Dickens and Timothy Leary in a well-intended holiday comedy that would have been Scrooged if not for Michael Shannon's performance as angelic weed dealer
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 offers less magic

Katniss still kicks ass as dramatic scope broadens You can almost feel director Francis Lawrence stiffening up as he approaches the finish line, eager to break the tape without falling down in the last mile. The goofiness and the spontaneity are gone, replaced by an official sense of duty, as Jennifer Lawrence loads her bow and fires an arrow into the abyss of adulthood in Hunger Games finale.  
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Movie review: Brooklyn is bittersweet nostalgia

Saoirse Ronan gives a remarkable performance as a young Irish girl who grows up when she goes to New York City in the 1950s to start a new life
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Movie review: Remember a moving drama

Atom Egoyan's new movie Remember — about an aging Holocaust survivor plotting revenge — is a moving and surprising feat of storytelling, and featuring a great performance
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Spotlight’s tarnished details make it shine

The real story behind a Pulitzer-winning series Director Tom McCarthy creates cinematic tension by setting two institutions on a collision course as the Catholic Church and The Boston Globe wrestle arrogance and ego while professing human compassion    
2.5Score

Movie review: The 33 trapped in a cave-in

The story of the 2010 Chilean mine disaster is told with many familiar beats and with an international cast that doesn't always fit together
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Miss You Already drives on soft shoulder

Director Catherine Hardwicke takes us back to Beaches Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore make sand angels together as best friends Milly and Jess, two women who were slowly drifting apart until a life crisis forces them to reconnect
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Movie review: Suffragette and the battle for women’s rights

Historical drama shows the price women had to pay in Britain — the abuse, the imprisonment, the lost families — to win the right to vote
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Movie review: Spectre a case of Bonds away

Daniel Craig, all pursed lips and murderous glare, returns as 007 in a film adventure that seeks to wrap up everything that went before, writes Jay Stone
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Our Brand is Crisis: A hopeless campaign

Bullock bulldozes a pile of political cliché David Gordon Green attempts dark satire by placing two American strategists in a South American bullring, but despite some sharp lines and sharper clothes, there's no matador's grace in this ritual slaughter