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Review: Rom-com's lesson fails to deliver
Director Christian Ditter has already tackled rom-coms with British film Love, Rosie, but in How to Be Single he goes from riffing on one relationship to wrangling a clutch of them, with the ensemble piece getting the better of him.
Review: Will Smith can't save Concussion
Viewed from here, where American football remains, for most of us, a curiosity, this film about a doctor who challenged the sports-entertainment industrial complex behind the game is something of a revelation.
Watch: Betty White reviews 'Deadpool'
The elderly actress said the film was "glorious". Deadpool stars Reynolds as the snarky anti-hero from Marvel Comics.
Our review of 'frivolous' Zoolander 2
There was little about 2001's Zoolander that warranted a sequel, and yet here it is.
Oscar nominated movie a 'masterpiece'
When Patricia Highsmith wrote The Price of Salt in 1952, its subject matter was so taboo that she needed to use a pseudonym, Claire Morgan.
Sick of superhero movies? This is the movie for you
You have to wonder how this exchange slipped past Deadpool's financial executives.
You need to see this film
Journalists are constantly exasperated by the depiction of journalism in the movies: crusading reporters who never take notes write their own (very bad) headlines for stories based on hunches, improbable disclosures, lucky breaks and dramatic confrontatio
Review: Raunchy road trip makes for 'pointless' comedy
Other than starring in David O. Russell films, in recent years seven-time Oscar nominee and two-time winner Robert De Niro has taken to appearing in lightweight films reassuring baby boomers they're relevant, and can still party large.
Review: Love conquers sexual politics
Predictably and understandably, this film about one of the first known people to undergo a surgical sex change has been criticised for tweaking the historical record and, more sophisticatedly, for its heteronormative approach to a transgender story.
Review: Oscar nominated film 'bland'
It's hardly surprising that stories of immigrants to the Land of the Free have such a proud cinematic history: the immigrant experience has everything - risk, longing, regret, hope, danger - that makes for great drama.
Review: Penguin's pal saves the day in new kids movie
If you're looking for a sweet family film to entertain the younger kids these holidays, Oddball will do the trick.
Movie review: The Big Short
The Big Short is equal parts goofy crime caper and cold-blooded rage against the machine that created the Global Financial Crisis.
Movie review: Suffragette
Carey Mulligan stars in a riveting true story about the struggle for women's emancipation.
Movie review: Sisters
Despite a few hit-and-miss moments, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler prove yet again to be a dynamic duo, Francesca writes.
Review: Dad vs Dad in slow-to-fire comedy
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg were hilarious together when they teamed up in 2010 for cop movie spoof The Other Guys. While the set-up in Daddy's Home is different, their roles are similar.
Review: JLaw saves 'disjointed' Joy
The Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper and David O. Russell show rolls back into town with family drama Joy, an offbeat and quietly entertaining yarn about the rags-to-riches true story of Joy Mangano, the inventor of the Miracle Mop, and her crazy family.
Review: Bryan Cranston flick 'enlightening'
Whether or not Bryan Cranston wins the Best Actor Oscar in February, this biopic will surely prompt a stream of sanctimonious recollection in Tinseltown about Dalton Trumbo.
Review: New Pixar film beautiful but predictable
The hero of The Good Dinosaur, the latest offering from Pixar animations, isn't the adorable apatosaurus, Arlo, his unlikely human companion, Spot, or the red neck T-Rex cowboy voiced by Western film actor Sam Elliott.
Review: Growing up through music
Surmounting the not considerable obstacle that French pop music makes John Denver sound like AC/DC, this Christmas crowdpleaser breathes new life into the girl-becomes-woman genre.
Review: Fresh Peanuts retains tradition
Charlie brown's return to the big screen, 25 years after the last Peanuts feature, is sure to charm and delight both newcomers and fans of Charles M. Schulz's iconic comic strip.
Review: Film a one-shot wonder
Victoria is a remarkable achievement, a visceral experience in which the technique never overwhelms substance. Highly recommended as one of the year's best.
Review: Big Bird flick unengaging
I am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story plays like an extended promo, washed with a score of elevator-music strings, and composed of so many talking-head snatches that it often feels like a trailer for itself.
George Lucas reacts to new Star Wars film
The latest in the Star Wars saga has been put to the George Lucas test - and it passed.
Review: High spirits end era
The night Before reunites director Jonathan Levine with his 50/50 crew, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen, in a chaotic and raunchy comedy that takes place over one Christmas Eve in New York City.
Watch the new Superman v Batman trailer
If a teaser for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice whet your appetite, the full-length trailer will have you on the edge of your seat.