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★★★★½ The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The best spy movie of the year.
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★★★★★ Fantastic Four
Nothing can prepare you for the dour, joyless dreck director Josh Trank has unleashed.
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★★★★★ The Gift
The sleeper hit of the summer has arrived, you won't want to re-gift this one.
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PG-13
★★★½★ Ricki and the Flash
Streep never disappoints, but there’s nothing here for casual moviegoers.
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PG
★★★★★ Shaun the Sheep Movie
Great fun for everyone, with plenty of jokes only the smartest adults will get.
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PG-13
★★★★½ Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
May be the fifth installment, but the series continues to keep its hot streak going with no end in sight!
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★★★★★ Vacation
Might not be the funniest or smartest comedy, but plenty of wackiness ensues.
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PG-13
★★★★★ Paper Towns
Don’t let the tween marketing turn you off, 'Paper Towns' is worth the trip.
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★★★★★ Southpaw
A colleague asked if it was too early in the year for something from The Weinstein Company, but when it’s this good, absolutely not.
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PG-13
★★★★★ Pixels
Considering how awful we’ve come to expect from Sandler & Co, this feels like a milestone.
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R
★★★★★ Trainwreck
The Schumer/Apatow power-comedy combo makes for a hilarious time at the movies.
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PG-13
★★★★½ Ant-Man
This is the film that finally proves Marvel head Kevin Feige really really knows what he’s doing. Bring on Phase Three!
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★★★★★ The Gallows
May be just another throwaway Blumhouse cheapie, but this is one of the better ones.
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PG
★★★★★ Minions
Pretty and vapid, but mostly just pretty vapid.
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PG-13
★★★½★ Self/less
There have been, and will be, far worse movies this year.
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★★★½★ Magic Mike XXL
A good time is to be had, even if it’s of the lobotomized variety.
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★★★★★ Terminator Genisys
We all know he’ll be back, and I can’t wait to see where the story goes from here.
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PG-13
★★★★★ Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
A laugh-out-loud hilarious, heartbreaking tearjerker.
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R
★★★★½ Ted 2
Anyone worried it’s just more of the same, well, it is. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.
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R
★★½★★ Burying the Ex
A mess from start to finish.
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PG
★★★★★ Inside Out
Hilarious, endlessly inventive, and beautifully animated, Pixar is back in full force.
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PG-13
★★★★★ Jurassic World
A cliché-driven action adventure that never gives itself time to establish meaningful scenes or dramatic scenarios.
Aaron Peck
PG-13
★★★★½ Jurassic World
Anyone left dissatisfied with 'The Lost World' or 'Jurassic Park III' can breathe a heavy sigh of relief.
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★★½★★ Entourage
A sorry state of bro-culture run amok. Ari and Drama are the only sacks of life in a sad sack TV-series improbably gone big screen.
Aaron Peck