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A Very Particular Set of Skills: Liam Neeson is Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House

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In 'Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House,' Deep Throat Isn't So Deep

5:00pm September 28, 2017

by Mark Jenkins

Peter Landesman's film, based on Felt's book, features a stolid but unenlightening performance from Liam Neeson as the FBI official who secretly fed information to reporters.

I'd Like to Fly the World Some Coke: In American Made, Tom Cruise plays Barry Seal, a drug- running pilot in the 1980s.

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Take Me To The Pilot: 'American Made' Soars

5:00pm September 28, 2017

by Chris Klimek

Doug Liman's "cheerfully blistering yarn" about a pilot who flew guns and drugs for the CIA makes the most of Tom Cruise's gifts as a leading man, and Liman's directorial fondness for low-level chaos.

The late Harry Dean Stanton brings a raw-boned grace to Lucky.

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'Lucky': Harry Dean Stanton Gets A Quiet, Ruminative Sendoff

5:00pm September 28, 2017

by Andrew Lapin

Effectively a loving cinematic eulogy to its late star, Luckyworks best when it allows Stanton to express his character's "wistfulness, his bewilderment at the mere fact that he's alive," says critic Andrew Lapin.

Teen, Idle: Owen Campbell stars as Zach in Super Dark Times.

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In 'Super Dark Times,' An Act of Violence Imperils A Friendship

5:00pm September 28, 2017

by Scott Tobias

First-time director Kevin Phillips displays a remarkable gift for evoking a time and place, but loses control when this tale of a teenage friendship shifts from character study to grisly thriller.

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Farcical And Madcap, 'American Made' Stars Tom Cruise At His Best

1:54pm September 28, 2017

by David Edelstein

Cruise plays a drug-smuggling pilot working for the DEA, CIA and Medellin Cartel in his new film, a dark comedy set in the '80s. Critic David Edelstein calls American Made "breathlessly entertaining."

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Robert Gulaczyk as a Vincent van Gough self portrait in Loving Vincent

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'Loving Vincent' Paints Van Gogh Into A Murder Mystery

4:38pm September 26, 2017

by Bob Mondello

Loving Vincent is a murder mystery animated a unique way — with 65,000 oil paintings in the` style of Vincent Van Gogh.

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'Battle Of The Sexes' Poised To Be A Crowd-Pleaser All Over Again

4:54pm September 22, 2017

by Bob Mondello

Battle of the Sexes tells the story of the 1973 tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King. The event drew an enormous audience and NPR's Bob Mondello says the movie could too.

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'Battle Of The Sexes' Revisits Billie Jean King's Historic Win Against Bobby Riggs

2:18pm September 22, 2017

by John Powers

Emma Stone stars as King in a breezy new film that carries us back to '73, and the heyday of the women's lib movement. Critic John Powers says the message of Battle of the Sexes still resonates today.

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(From left) Timothée Chalamet in Call Me by Your Name; Jason Mitchell in Mudbound; Emma Stone in Battle of the Sexes; and Idris Elba in Molly's Game.

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NPR's Movie Preview: 16 New Films To Watch This Fall

1:59pm September 22, 2017

As summer gives way to fall, blockbusters give way to award contenders. Here are some of the best, buzziest and otherwise noteworthy films coming to theaters.

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Taron Egerton stars in Kingsman: The Golden Circle as Eggsy.

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'Kingsman' Sequel: This Time, A Flat 'Golden Circle'

7:00am September 22, 2017

by Chris Klimek

The new chapter in the spy franchise ramps up the first film's caustic, violent cynicism but leans even harder into the artifice; a reliance on soundstages and CGI dampens the excitement and energy.