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The 10 best movies of 2015

10. At No. 10, the rousing, gritty, thoroughly entertaining “Straight Outta Compton.” Director F. Gary Gray and the stellar cast remind us of NWA’s legacy as groundbreaking rappe...

The 10 worst films of 2015

We go from bad to worse with this list, starting with the 10th lousiest film and ending with the most odious of them all. 10. At No. 10, “Hot Tub Time Machine 2,” whic...

Movies playing in Durango Dec. 25-31

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Trumbo In 1947, Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) was Hollywood’s top screenwrit...

Review: Experimenter

Recently, we had “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” based on the 1971 psychological exercise in which 12 college students were randomly selected to play the role of guards and 12 were chosen ...

Review: Trumbo

“Trumbo” is a corny, well-made B-movie about an A-list screenwriter who had to take jobs writing B-movies after he was blacklisted, but eventually worked his way back to writing A-movies wit...

Review: Daddy’s Home

Even though “Daddy’s Home” is set in the New Orleans area and “Sisters” is set in Orlando, it feels as if they’re next-door neighbors on Mediocre Boulevard. Like the Amy Poehler-T...

Review: Point Break

It takes a very special director to make scenes of sky-diving, free climbing, big-wave surfing and BASE jumping something to yawn at. Yet Ericson Core must be that kind of miracle worker, be...

Review: Concussion

The Chicago Sun-Times In the mid-2000s, the “Monday Night Countdown” pregame show on ESPN featured a segment called “Jacked Up,” celebrating the most vicious hits of the week. ...

Review: The Big Short

Impossible. Even with the benefit of 20-15 hindsight, it’s impossible to fathom exactly how the housing bubble of the 2000s was allowed to balloon to such gigantic proportions bef...

Review: Joy

Jennifer Lawrence delivers a tough, engaging performance in “Joy,” a dramedy by director David O. Russell loosely based on the life of inventor and home-shopping pioneer Joy Mangano. ...

Movies playing in Durango Dec. 11-17

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Home Alone (Tuesday only) Home Alone. (Tuesday only) A young boy named Kevin ...

Review: Sisters

Starting with Chicago’s ImprovOlympic in the early 1990s and continuing through “Saturday Night Live” and films and even hosting the Golden Globes with terrific style, Tina Fey and Amy Poehl...
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