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Director Joel Edgerton's well-intentioned drama about gay conversion therapy fails to deliver any new insight or even a good cry.

Fans of convoluted espionage thrillers will be disappointed, but Jennifer Lawrence delivers in this twisted tale of sexual gamesmanship.

Loving is particularly resonant at a time when many in America may feel as if their own inherent rights are on shaky ground.

In Black Mass, Johnny Depp stunningly inhabits South Boston’s notorious Whitey Bulger, the man who aided and eluded the F.B.I. for decades.

The Gift is an absolutely fun thriller that is subtle, smart and worth every moment.

Jim and Carol's story is at once mundane and creepy-cute, wound up around the core fact of the child Timothy, who arrives following a thunderstorm out of their garden

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