"Emancipation" works best as a gripping action-thriller featuring a powerful performance by Will Smith, but its screenplay hinders it from being anything more.

There is a beauty and poignancy within "Empire of Light," the new film from writer/director Sam Mendes, that is something akin to a cathartic experience.

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