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You Might Be Depressed by Manchester by the Sea, Until You Realize How Good It Is
The fragile dynamics of a suburban Massachusetts family defined by tragedy and regret are explored with heartfelt authenticity in this superbly acted drama.
By Todd Jorgenson
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Arrival Is a Close Encounter With the Profound
The thoughtful science fiction drama delivers big thrills and asks big questions.
By Alex Macon
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Eastwood’s Sully Is a Marvelously Understated Meditation on Heroism
Tom Hanks plays a pilot who famously averted a disaster.
By Jason Heid
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Neo-Western Hell or High Water Writes a New Chapter in Texas’ Frontier Story
David MacKenzie's film is full of both humor and menace.
By Jason Heid
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High-Rise Makes an Extreme Case Against Apartment Living
The year's funniest, darkest disaster movie.
By Alex Macon
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Linklater Bros Down Sublimely in Everybody Wants Some!!
The director picks up where he left off with Dazed and Confused.
By Alex Macon
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Harrowing Son of Saul Journeys Through the Hellish Circles of a Nazi Death Camp
The movie is deservingly favored to win the foreign-language Oscar.
By Jason Heid
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DiCaprio, Inarritu Turn The Revenant Into a Brutal Winter Wonderland
A fully immersive examination of snowbound savagery among 19th century fur trappers that’s both exhilarating and exhausting.
By Todd Jorgenson
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A Crash Course in Wall Street Greed, The Big Short Laughs to Keep From Crying
2015's most improbable success.
By Alex Macon
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Objective Journalism Still Matters, and Spotlight Shows Why
This taut and well acted ensemble drama is based on some true-life muckraking in 2002, when a team of journalists from the Boston Globe helped to expose a massive sex-abuse scandal in the Catholic church.
By Todd Jorgenson