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Feb. 28 2014 5:51 PMThe Lady in Number 6This documentary short about the oldest Holocaust survivor is 38 minutes of pure joy.
Feb. 26 2014 9:18 PMThe Grand Budapest HotelWes Anderson goes to war.
Feb. 21 2014 5:17 PMHow to Get Yourself to Watch “Difficult” MoviesNotes from a Schindler’s List viewing party.
Feb. 20 2014 6:55 PMThe Wind RisesHayao Miyazaki’s final film has the sweep of a David Lean epic and the dreamlike quality of late Kurosawa.
Feb. 14 2014 7:19 PMI Can’t “Let It Go”My daughter loves Frozen, but that weird come-hither makeover in its show-stopping ballad leaves me very cold.
Feb. 6 2014 7:23 PMThe Lego MovieA clever, vivid, funny, oddly profound movie … about plastic bricks.
Jan. 31 2014 4:35 PMLabor DayCampiest sex scene since Ghost?
Jan. 2 2014 7:32 PMLone Survivor’s Title Gives Away the Ending, But That Doesn’t Make It Any Less Harrowing
Dec. 26 2013 6:30 PMAugust: Osage CountyA gifted ensemble cast can't save this messy adaptation of the acclaimed play.
Dec. 20 2013 1:11 PMAnchorman 2Some of it is funny. Some of it dies.
Dec. 13 2013 6:36 PMSaving Mr. BanksIt’ll leave you feeling something short of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Dec. 10 2013 8:02 AMThe Best Movies of 2013It was an outrageous year of cinematic bounty.
Nov. 27 2013 1:06 PMOldboyOh boy.
Nov. 22 2013 4:19 PMIs the Man Who Is Tall Happy?Noam Chomsky talks, Michel Gondry doodles, and somehow it makes for a captivating movie.
Nov. 14 2013 8:12 PMNebraskaBruce Dern offers a magnificent, nearly mute performance as a King Lear of the Great Plains.
March 3 2014 8:14 AMIt Was Gravity vs. GravitasAnd the weightier movie won.
Feb. 27 2014 8:31 AMPut Your Oscars Knowledge to the Test With This Screenplay Quiz
Feb. 21 2014 6:46 PMChild’s PoseIt ain’t about yoga.
Feb. 21 2014 3:42 PMEmmanuel Lubezki Is on InstagramAnd the Gravity cinematographer is just as gifted with still images as he is with moving ones.
Feb. 19 2014 11:52 PMMeryl Streep Gets Thanked More Than GodCrunching the numbers on a decade-plus of Oscar acceptance speeches. and
Feb. 13 2014 6:14 PMRoboCopIs the spirit of the original still alive?
Feb. 3 2014 6:48 AMPSH, RIPPhilip Seymour Hoffman could do anything—and he was just getting started.
Jan. 30 2014 4:34 PMTomorrow NightLouis C.K.’s genre-busting, never-released feature about a man who makes love to ice cream.
Dec. 31 2013 7:14 PMThe Secret Life of Walter MittyA movie searches for its own sense of fun.
Dec. 23 2013 5:16 PMThe Wolf of Wall StreetEpic in size, claustrophobically narrow in scope.
Dec. 19 2013 6:03 PMHerSpike Jonze’s wistful portrait of our love affair with technology.
Dec. 12 2013 7:00 PMAmerican HustleSomewhere between a raunchy All the President’s Men and an emo Goodfellas.
Dec. 5 2013 5:03 PMInside Llewyn DavisA journey back to Greenwich Village’s folk heyday with the freeflowin’ brothers Coen.
Nov. 26 2013 12:51 PMFrozenTwo princesses, a wonderfully daft snowman, a loyal and adventurous reindeer—and yet, something’s missing …
Nov. 21 2013 6:55 PMThe Hunger Games: Catching FireNeeds more kindling.

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