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'Sense Of An Ending' Lacks The Punch Of The Prize-Winning Novel It's Based On

1:28pm March 10, 2017

by David Edelstein

The film tells the story of an emotionally shut-down man who gradually learns that the events of his past are not as he remembers. David Edelstein says the movie, unlike the book, is a "non-event."

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Kristen Stewart plays a medium who is determined to communicate with the spirit of her late twin brother in Personal Shopper.

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Paranormal Activity Meets Profound Grief In 'Personal Shopper'

10:05am March 10, 2017

by Justin Chang

Olivier Assayas' chilling new film features Kristen Stewart as a medium who is trying to contact her dead twin. Critic Justin Chang calls it "moody, baffling and altogether entrancing."

Gorilla Warfare: San (Tian Jing), Weaver (Brie Larson), Conrad (Tom Hiddleston) and Slivko (Thomas Mann) in Kong: Skull Island.

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In The Forgettable 'Kong: Skull Island,' A Great Cast, Cast Aside

5:00pm March 09, 2017

by Chris Klimek

Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, John C. Reilly, John Goodman and Samuel L. Jackson help ensure that this mediocre creature feature is "no chore to sit through," says critic Chris Klimek.

To Denial!: Tony (Jim Broadbentt) and Margaret (Harriet Walter) in The Sense of an Ending.

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An Unexamined Life, Examined And Re-Examined: 'The Sense Of An Ending'

5:00pm March 09, 2017

by Ella Taylor

An unsparing, unsentimental Julian Barnes novel gets a straightforward treatment — and a tacked-on, falsely redemptive ending — in Ritesh Batra's film.

The Spite of the Hunter: Villainous preacher Guy Pearce excoriates his flock in Brimstone.

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A Revisionist Western With A Vision That's Oppressively Brutal: 'Brimstone'

5:00pm March 09, 2017

by Scott Tobias

Dutch writer-director Martin Koolhoven's bleak, four-part, 149-minute tale, which features Guy Pearce as a sadistic preacher in the Old West, proves "rigorously unpleasant," says critic Scott Tobias.

Veterinary students Julien (Rabah Nait Oufella) and Justine (Garance Marillier) flesh out their study plan in Raw.

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'Raw' Is Not Well Done

5:00pm March 09, 2017

by Mark Jenkins

French writer-director Julia Ducournau's debut feature, about a vegetarian veterinary student who develops a taste for viscera, "is as tiresome as it is scandalous," says critic Mark Jenkins.

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Hollywood's Favorite Giant Ape Returns In 'Kong: Skull Island'

4:36pm March 09, 2017

by Bob Mondello

In Kong: Skull Island, Hollywood's favorite giant ape returns to theaters, this time befriending Brie Larson and annoying John Goodman.

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In 'Logan,' Hugh Jackman's Wolverine Shines His Badge One Last Time

4:46pm March 03, 2017

by Bob Mondello

NPR movie critic Bob Mondello reviews the latest and darkest Marvel movie, Logan, which follows an aging X-Men Wolverine and Charles Xavier.

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The X-Men Franchise Takes An Intense, Scorched-Earth Turn With 'Logan'

1:31pm March 03, 2017

by David Edelstein

Major characters go down in showers of blood and gore in the latest stand-alone Wolverine film. Critic David Edelstein says that Logan is an "incredibly bleak ... crackerjack piece of work."

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Even adamantium rusts: Hugh Jackman stars in Logan.

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'Logan' Is The Best At What It Does — And What It Does Is Gritty

5:00pm March 02, 2017

by Chris Klimek

Critic Chris Klimek says this small-scale, sun-blasted tale of an aging Wolverine's efforts to protect a young mutant "plays like the King Lear of the X-saga."