Adventure
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Drama
My Penguin Friend
Reviews My Penguin Friend There’s something radical about the old-fashioned approach of “My Penguin Friend.” It’s an earnest, crowd-pleasing family film – nothing…
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Science Fiction
Borderlands
Reviews Borderlands I have spent hundreds of hours in the worlds of Gearbox Software and 2K Games’ “Borderlands,” enraptured by…
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Comedy
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Reviews Harold and the Purple Crayon As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955 hymn to…
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Action
Hundreds of Beavers
Reviews Hundreds of Beavers “Hundreds of Beavers,” a boldly bizarre, nearly silent slapstick comedy about a 19th-century trapper doing battle…
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Suspense
K-19: The Widowmaker
Reviews K-19: The Widowmaker Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson in “K-19: The Widowmaker.” Movies involving submarines have the logic of…
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Suspense
Abandon
Reviews Abandon “Abandon” is a moody, effective thriller for about 80 percent of the way, and then our hands close…
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Suspense
The Recruit
Reviews The Recruit ‘The Recruit” reveals that the training process of the Central Intelligence Agency is like a fraternity initiation,…
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Action
Fighter
Reviews Fighter Politics simultaneously are and aren’t the thing in “Fighter,” a Bollywood military drama that takes heavy inspiration from…
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Action
The Tiger’s Apprentice
Reviews The Tiger’s Apprentice At first glance, the existence of “The Tiger’s Apprentice” would seem to be a grand advance…
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Action
Madame Web
Reviews Madame Web “Madame Web” is not the unmitigated disaster that its clunky trailer or its calendar spot in February…
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