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Peter Berg’s “Deepwater Horizon” is this year’s ultimate guilty pleasure at the movies.

This $156 million action film about a real-life 2010 blowout on an oil rig that killed...

Denzel Washington makes a belated but splendid debut as a Western hero in Antoine Fuqua’s action-packed, multicultural reimagining of John Sturges’ 1960 semi-classic, which in truth is best...

“Sully” breathtakingly depicts what may be the most remarkable half-hour in NYC history.

Six minutes after taking off from LaGuardia Airport on Jan. 15, 2009, Capt. Chesley “Sully”...

The first two major big-screen versions of “Ben-Hur” were huge hits, with the second one, from 1959, winning 11 Oscars, including Best Picture. The third time’s definitely not the charm...

“How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice!’’ goes the old joke. But in Stephen Frears’ delightful, semicomedic biopic “Florence Foster Jenkins,’’ all the eccentric...

Bryan Cranston — a Best Actor Oscar nominee for “Trumbo” — continues his rewarding post-“Breaking Bad’’...

Set in a fantasy version of the 1980s in which the queen of England is more worried about child-eating giants than her country’s future economic meltdown, Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Roald...

If there has ever been a better voice performance in an animated film than Ellen DeGeneres’ in Pixar’s wonderful sequel “Finding Dory,” I sure can’t think of it. Her tour...

There’s no shortage of shocks in the “The Conjuring 2,’’ a mostly satisfying follow-up that brings back the excellent Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as Ed and Lorraine Warren,...

Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling make an improbably winning comic crime-solving team in “The Nice Guys.” Co-written and directed by Shane Black, the writer who created the “Lethal Weapon”...

Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes make beautiful music together as reunited rock veterans — and Dakota Johnson gets a better showcase than “Fifty Shades of Grey’’ — in the sizzling...

It hasn’t been easy to find a worthy follow-up to “Slumdog Millionaire’’ for Indian actor Dev Patel, who all-too-often has been mired in dire would-be blockbusters like “The...

Ice Cube, the once-incendiary NWA rapper celebrating a quarter-century as one of Hollywood’s unlikeliest stars, winningly resurrects his “Barbershop’’ franchise to broker a truce...

Chemistry counts for an awful lot in a romantic comedy, and I’d be hard-pressed to name a more compatible recent screen couple than Anna Kendrick and Sam Rockwell (in spite of their nearly 17-year...

Don Cheadle gives one of the best performances of his career as jazz legend Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead,’’ even if his debut as a director ends up being an unfocused disappointment.

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Before they broke through in “The Spectacular Now” and “Pitch Perfect,” respectively, Miles Teller and Anna Kendrick starred in this crass and painfully unfunny satirical comedy...

Threatened in some form or other since 2002, “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’’ finally arrives to kick off the ever-lengthening “summer” movie season — and a long...

Would you sacrifice a cute 9-year-old-girl to save hundreds of people from a terrorist bombing? That’s the awful choice in “Eye in the Sky,’’ which works equally well as a nail-biting...

Racist, stupid and boasting cheesy effects that wouldn’t pass muster on basic cable, the sequel to the surprise hit “Olympus Has Fallen’’ is a cautionary tale about what could happen...

The year’s best film so far, “Zootopia,” is a Walt Disney Animation Studios ’toon set in a brilliantly imagined animals-only city where the first bunny on the police force tries...