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Richard Roeper

Review: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2

If they had a concussion protocol in “The Hunger Games,” Katniss Everdeen would be forced into early retirement. In just this installment, the fourth and last chapter in the wildl...

Review: Grandma

Elle Reid is the type of person who is her own worst enemy, is smart enough to realize she’s her own worst enemy – and is going to continue being her own worst enemy until her last breath. ...

Review: The Peanuts Movie

You’re in good hands, Charlie Brown. About 65 years after the launch of the much-beloved “Peanuts” comic strip and a half-century after the Golden Age of Charlie Brown TV specials...

Review: Our Brand is Crisis

For a manic-depressive, alcoholic, washed-up political consultant of a certain age who’s dealing with altitude sickness in strife-torn Bolivia, and, oh yeah, she’s just taken up smoking agai...

Review: Steve Jobs

It’s possible we spend more time backstage with the principals in “Steve Jobs” than we did with the main characters in “A Chorus Line,” “All That Jazz” and maybe even “Birdman,” come to thin...

Review: Irrational Man

Few working directors are compared to themselves as much as Woody Allen, but the prolific and brilliant Allen brings it upon himself because, let’s face it, for all his filmmaking genius, he...

Review: Rock the Kasbah

They say some parts of “Rock the Kasbah” are inspired by true events, but after witnessing this jaw-dropping dud, I’m thinking this is based on a true story the same way “The Santa Clause” i...

Review: Bridge of Spies

You could write brief descriptions of any 100 relatively significant chapters in American history, toss them all into one of those hand-cranked raffle cylinders, pluck out one entry, and I’l...

Review: The Walk

You have to learn to run before you walk. It also might help if you learn how to ride a unicycle, juggle, tumble, achieve pure excellence in the art of balance through biomechanic...

Review: Sicario

When we talk about “the war on drugs,” there’s an implication that two clearly established armies are engaged in battle and eventually one will prevail. Nonsense. The war is over ...

Review: The Martian

Finally! A botanist superhero! What took you so long, Hollywood? Ridley Scott’s “The Martian” is arguably the warmest, cuddliest film ever made about the Red Planet, an...

Review: Meru

Impossible. When you get a climber’s-eye view of the Shark’s Fin jutting skyward at the very top of the 21,000-foot Meru Peak in the Himalayas, you feel a rock sinking in your sto...