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The new entry slots in before 1977’s ‘Star Wars’ but favours a ‘darker’ palette over lovably corny banter
A screen adaptation of Patrick Ness’s fantasy story about a boy and a giant yew tree
Felicity Jones is the most watchable human as the franchise decouples from its dynastic saga
Tom Hanks returns as a symbology professor in the latest Dan Brown adventure
This year’s crop of movies debate powerful issues of rebellion, patriotism and terror — but little new in the way of potential Oscar fare
James Marsh’s biopic tells us little about Stephen Hawking that we didn’t already know
Ralph Fiennes directs a laudable Charles Dickens biopic about the author’s affair with an 18-year-old actress
Ralph Fiennes directs and stars in an account of Dickens’ secret love
Midlife malaise spirals into midlife meltdown as an 18-year-old piano prodigy stirs the yearnings of a failed rock guitarist
Reviews of this week’s films: ‘The Descendants’, ‘Like Crazy’, ‘The Grey’ and ‘Patience (After Sebald)’
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