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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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Unbroken
Unbroken
Unbroken

Movie Review: Unbroken

A few months ago the pared, gritty World War II tank picture Fury, led with muted intensity by Brad Pitt, caused little stir though it was a modest, hard-won victory in an old genre. It was also a far more involving trawl throu...

 
 
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Inside Llewyn Davis
Inside Llewyn Davis
Inside Llewyn Davis

Movie Review: Inside Llewyn Davis

In scenes organized like the complimentary songs of a weary 2:00 am vinyl album, Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis unfolds as another of their heartfelt, seriocomic, unsentimental, fine-brush portraits of distinctly-Jew...