Damien Chazelle's "La La Land" is chock with music and dance, but there's a basement at its core.
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Manchester by the Sea
Lucas Hedges and Casey Affleck are stalwart players in Kenneth Lonergan's brooding drama.
Hell or High Water
David MacKenzie's contemporary Western uses two sets of buddies to tell an outlaw story.
Some lovely Moonlight
Writer-director Barry Jenkins' story of a taciturn boy as seen through various stages of life is a stunning accomplishment.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Tim Burton's whimsical latest has a better chance of appealing to grandchildren than adults.
Stranger than fiction
Scott Derrickson's saccharine "Doctor Strange," heavy on time warping and mysticism, is redeemed in part by jack-of-all-trades Benedict Cumberbatch.
Florence Foster Jenkins
Stephen Frears' biopic has star power (Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant) but remains ordinary.
Demon
Marcin Wrona's portrayal of a wedding, and a haunting, is a brilliant look at historical denial.
Sempre la mamma
In Nanni Moretti's latest, a dying mother plunges a filmmaking daughter into crisis.
Indignation
Philip Roth's veiled autobiography about early 1950s college life makes little headway on screen.
No average road trip
In "Captain Fantastic," writer-director Matt Ross rallies precocious kids around Vigo Mortensen.
Weiner
In a powerful documentary, Anthony Weiner shows how he destroyed both self and marriage.