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Crimson Peak
Crimson Peak
Crimson Peak

Movie Review: Crimson Peak

Sure, the story of Crimson Peak is familiar, but the way it’s presented and the places it goes are wholly original. The film is a gothic horror story, set in an imposing 19th-century British mansion plagued by ghosts. We’ve all...

 
 
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Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies
Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies
Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies

Movie Review: Bridge of Spies

The Tom Hanks-starring period piece Bridge of Spies is Steven Spielberg’s best and most entertaining film since…well, his last Tom Hanks-starring period piece. In the decade-plus since the delightful Catch Me If You Can, Spielb...

 
 
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Black Mass
Black Mass
Black Mass

Movie Review: Black Mass

Black Mass is not necessarily a bad mob film, but it’s a mob film too concerned with emulating the cool of other, better mob films to develop any real voice of its own. Director Scott Cooper clearly had Martin Scorsese on the b...