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Review: Serena

One of the more arresting images in the handsomely mounted Serena arrives an hour into the film. Serena Pemberton (Jennifer Lawrence) is...

By the time Errol Flynn met Beverly Aadland in 1957, his glory days as he swashbuckling Robin Hood were well behind him. He was still...

A giddy ode to the British spy genre, Kingsman: The Secret Service is an endlessly entertaining comedic actioner that positions itself as...

Director Richard Lagravanese listened to the soundtrack of the off-Broadway musical The Last Five Years before he actually saw the show....

With any literary adaptation, one hopes to equal, improve upon, or surpass the source material. Part of the trick is to assess how it can...

Director Gina Prince-Bythewood is best known for Love and Basketball, where she elevated a familiar love story with her confident...

There's very little, if anything at all, to fault with Paddington, a thoroughly disarming work that sees Michael Bond's much-beloved bear...

Directors have a singular vision for their work which doesn't always jibe with those of studio heads, who are predominantly interested in...

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother," Abraham Lincoln famously said of his beloved mother Nancy, who died of milk...

The shift from best friends to bedfellows has greased the engine of many a romantic comedy from When Harry Met Sally... to Friends With...