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Red Dog: True Blue review: Origin story delivers the warm and furries

A simple coming-of-age story that benefits from a great cast and moments of inspired craziness.

What could be cuter than Red Dog – the mutt who stole Australia’s heart in the 2011 crowd-pleaser? Red Puppy of course. And the idea of going back in time to the dog’s origin story also solves the problem of trying to create a franchise when your...

Paterson review: A quiet miracle of a film

A charming and unpretentious masterpiece about the beauty of an ‘ordinary’ life.

A man wakes up beside his beautiful wife. He kisses her shoulder, makes coffee, and goes to work. He drives a bus in downtown Paterson, New Jersey, eavesdropping on passengers, writing poetry in his lunch hour, and coming home to walk the dog and...

Bad Santa 2 review: Superficially entertaining sequel lacks soul

The offensives jokes that made the success of 'Bad Santa' wear thin in this soulless sequel.

Early in Bad Santa 2, drunken reprobate and self-loathing misanthrope Willie Soke (Billy Bob Thornton) tries to kill himself by putting his head in an oven. An electric oven. It’s a good joke, and one that sums up Willy perfectly: everything...

American Honey review: Arnold's film captivates with its amateur actors (and a remarkable Shia LaBeouf)

Actors and non-actors alike give magnetic performances in Andrea Arnold's first US film.

The vérité nonfiction director arrives on the scene as a visitor, allowing the subjects to determine the action, while the fiction director maps out parameters and shapes a story line. In the work of the British-born filmmaker Andrea Arnold, the...

Storks review: Animated birds fails to deliver the comedy

'Storks', the new digital cartoon about a crew of sharp-beaked, flamingo-legged birds who deliver babies, is a strenuously unfunny animated comedy.

Storks, the new digital cartoon about a crew of sharp-beaked, flamingo-legged birds who deliver babies (or used to; they now deliver consumer packages - but we'll get to that in a minute), is a strenuously unfunny animated comedy. These days,...