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RogerEbert.com — Ben Is Back

The first half of “Ben Is Back” is stronger than the second half, but Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges hold the movie together throughout. Writer-director Peter Hedges’ film about a 19-year-old drug addict who comes home from rehab for 24 hours to visit his family for Christmas begins as a...

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RogerEbert.com — Green Book

I am shocked that not only did I not dislike “Green Book,” I found myself dazzled and even borderline choked up by the end. It’s pure formula, this story of a black man and a white man who learn they’re not so different after all while on a road trip...

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RogerEbert.com — The Front Runner

The typically charismatic Hugh Jackman is horribly miscast in “The Front Runner” as Gary Hart, the Colorado senator who was on his way to the Democratic nomination — and probably the presidency — before a sex scandal derailed his career in 1987. Jackman seems too old, too mad and too...

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RogerEbert.com — Suspiria

Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria” is a gloriously gonzo take on Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic — not a remake, exactly, but more of a serious (and seriously insane) expansion. The mood is deeply creepy from the get-go and Dakota Johnson and Tilda Swinton are exquisite. It doesn’t always work in its...

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RogerEbert.com — Beautiful Boy

Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet share several emotional moments as father and son in this real-life addiction drama. But “Beautiful Boy” might be too beautiful itself, depicting its horrors in a gauzy way with a distracting, time-hopping narrative. And the soundtrack of on-the-nose tunes is often cringe-inducing as it comments...

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RogerEbert.com — Venom

“Venom” isn’t quite the unmitigated disaster you’ve heard it is, but it’s also not the optimal use of its prodigious talent. Tom Hardy gives it his all, as always, in the title role as the Marvel Comics villain. (Although here, in his origin story, he’s more of an amusingly menacing...

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RogerEbert.com — Smallfoot

The animated “Smallfoot” is full of big ideas: Question authority. Question religion. Think for yourself. Don’t accept the status quo. If only its visuals and dialogue were so ambitious. Channing Tatum, Common, James Corden and Zendaya are among the starry voice cast in this musical comedy in which yetis and...

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