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Ross Lynch, center, as Jeffrey Dahmer ...

Movie review: “My Friend Dahmer”: Portrait of the serial killer as a young man

November 21, 2017 at 12:59 p.m.

In some ways, "My Friend Dahmer" is a typical coming-of-age movie about an awkward teen. What distinguishes this particular case of adolescent angst is that it's the true story of...

Jane Goodall and infant chimpanzee Flint ...

Movie review: “Jane” documentary looks at a pioneering primatologist

November 8, 2017 at 5:15 p.m.

Film tries too hard at times to juice up a powerful story.

Sadie , left, and McKayla (Alexandra ...

Sharp social-media satire “Tragedy Girls” features Instagrammers who would literally kill for “likes”

November 7, 2017 at 5:46 p.m.

Taking "Mean Girls" to a Grand Guignol extreme, the gory horror-comedy "Tragedy Girls" is at least the third movie this year -- after "Ingrid Goes West" and "Friend Request" --...

Q'orianka Kilcher stars as Te Ata, who grew up in Indian Territory and eventually performed for a U.S. president. The film's hammy acting and tonal missteps give her stories short shrift.

Movie review: “Te Ata,” the biopic of a gifted Native American performer, fails to tell her story

October 10, 2017 at 5:14 p.m.

Overcoming racial prejudice to become a popular storyteller, Native American performer Te Ata Fisher led an inspirational life. How ironic, then, that "Te Ata," while meaning well, fails to bring...

Alycia Debnam and Liesl Ahlers star in "Friend Request," a film that might have been a socially relevant thriller if it had better character development.

Movie review: Mild Facebook anxiety becomes a supernatural nightmare in “Friend Request”

September 22, 2017 at 1:00 a.m.

In the age of social media, is being alone the ultimate horror? The mildly creepy thriller "Friend Request" takes Facebook anxiety and turns it into a supernatural nightmare. While that's...

Nicholas Hoult as J.D. Salinger in "Rebel in the Rye."

“Rebel in the Rye” an all-too-conventional portrait of literary iconoclast J.D. Salinger

September 19, 2017 at 5:30 p.m.

Based on Kenneth Slawenski's 2010 book "J.D. Salinger: A Life," the biopic "Rebel in the Rye" is a marginal improvement on Salerno's documentary.

Herbert Permillion III in "California Typewriter." ...

“California Typewriter” hammers out a love letter to a nearly extinct machine

September 12, 2017 at 4:31 p.m.

Documentarian Doug Nichol's debut feature "California Typewriter" celebrates the surprising staying power of a technology that has become almost -- but not quite -- obsolete.

Katherine Heigl voices Andie in "Nut ...

“The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature”: Stale jokes and slapstick, the sequel

August 11, 2017 at 1:00 a.m.

Unfortunately, despite its adorable heroes, you'd have to be nutty to sit through "The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature," a largely unengaging modern-day animal fable.

Halle Berry is a mother who’ll stop at nothing to rescue her abducted son in “Kidnap”

August 7, 2017 at 3:35 p.m.

The omens did not bode well for "Kidnap," a New Orleans-set action movie in which Halle Berry plays a single mother who stops at nothing to rescue her abducted 6-year-old...

“The Women’s Balcony”: A synagogue is divided when a balcony collapses

June 27, 2017 at 5:07 p.m.

Set in an Orthodox Jewish community in Jerusalem, "The Women's Balcony" centers on the literal breakdown of a synagogue. Structural damage to the women's seating section results in a social...

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