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Review: Lying and Stealing

Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief. Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Charade. Hepburn and Peter O'Toole in How to Steal a Million....

London Fields is arguably the best example of cinematic slog, not only in recent memory but quite possibly of all time. A migraine of a...

Love is a kind of faith and, as with most faiths, difficult to quantify. There is no one definitive formula for it, nor is there one to...

"My name is Rose McNulty and I did not kill my child." So starts director Jim Sheridan's period drama, The Secret Scripture, adapted from...

A ramshackle hybrid of The French Connection and Starsky and Hutch (the film, not the television series), War on Everyone marks John...

The latest, and mercifully penultimate, installment of The Divergent series, Allegiant won't certainly entice viewers who are unfamiliar...

Wealth can be as insidious as addiction, and generosity can often be a bullying act. The Benefactor, originally titled Franny, stars...

Insurgent, the second installment of The Divergent Series, is a mostly sputtering mess before it coalesces into a propulsive third act....