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The BFG (2016)

Family Rated PG

“…includes a magical moment that will go down among my favorite scenes from Spielberg’s filmography.”

Charlotte’s Web (1973)

Family Rated G

“It’s fair to say that the best stuff comes directly from E.B. White’s plot and prose.”

The Witches (1990)

Family Rated PG

“…could care less about catering to a child’s more delicate sensibilities.”

The Neon Demon (2016)

Drama Rated R

“…captures the blinkered experience of obtaining adoration we were not made to receive.”

De Palma (2016)

Documentary Rated R

“The De Palma of De Palma ultimately comes off as the same one behind his movies: a talented filmmaker, but not a deeply introspective one.”

Finding Dory (2016)

Family Rated PG

“…inventive, amusing and eventually exhausting.”

Swing Time (1936)

Musical Rated NR

“Has Astaire and Rogers’ pinnacle production number: ‘Never Gonna Dance.'”

The Ridiculous 6 (2015)

Comedy Rated NR

“Did Nick Nolte survive the filming of this?”

Body Double (1984)

Thriller Rated R

“…ugly, unedifying exploitation cinema.”

Sunset Song (2016)

Drama Rated R

“The visual lushness is so overpowering that it nearly comes across as clueless.”

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Rome Open City (1945)

Thriller Rated NR

“… has a ramshackle neorealism, yet pulses with the tension of an espionage thriller.”

The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026)

Drama Rated PG-13

“… a ‘let them eat cake’ distraction for the multiplex crowd.”

Silkwood (1983)

Drama Rated R

“Streep is as loose as she’s ever been…”


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