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Dark Waters - Producer Ruffalo casts Ruffalo the actor perfectly here as the lawyer who took on America's most powerful chemical company against all the odds. He's heroic, tenacious...

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Downhill - A remake of a much better Belgian film called Force Majeure, this drama with a few comedic overtones focuses on an American family, the Stauntons: husband...

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Little Joe - Invasion of the Body Snatchers is clearly the inspiration for this Euro co-production where, in an unnamed city, a group of scientists is working on new kinds...

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Like a Boss - An early contender for Turkey of the Year. Star Haddish also exec-produced this farrago, so presumably she also read the film's God-awful screenplay. To their credit,...

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Ghost (reissue) - It's tough to imagine the then-virile, very much alive Swayze as a ghost. But that's what his character, Sam Wheat, becomes when shot by a mugger while walking home...

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Queen & Slim - After three Brits and an Aussie as the all-American March sisters in Little Women, US actors get short-changed again in this story of a reluctant Bonnie &...

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Daniel Isn't Real - An unrelenting portrait of a disintegrating mind. Luke (Faulkner), fleeing from the constant rowing of his parents, invents an imaginary friend, Daniel, who at first...

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Parasite - This year's Cannes Palme d'Or winner is certainly an original, even if it's also, as with so many of this year's movies, fatally overlong. The main section of the...

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