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Weekend Lineup: Dec. 20-22

The best ways to spend your weekend in Charm City.

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Movie Review: A Complete Unknown

Timothée Chalamet digs deep as Bob Dylan in this crowd-pleasing biopic.

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Baltimore’s Best Places to Party on New Year’s Eve

Don't drop the ball on making plans this year. From casual cocktails to glitzy galas, here's your guide to ringing in 2025.

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Valley of the Dolls: My Favorite Films of 2023

We’re all just living in a Barbie world.

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My Favorite Films of 2018

This year, the movies pushed back.

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Fall Movie Preview

Five films we're looking forward to this fall.

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Divergent

The Breakfast Club goes dystopian

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Bad Words

Jason Bateman's directorial debut is both funny and offensive. (But mostly offensive).

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The Grand Budapest Hotel

Wes Anderson delights (again) in this witty tale of a genteel action hero.

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Pompeii

It's like Gladiator. . . with volcanoes! It's Gladcanoes!

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Winter’s Tale

The cinematic equivalent of a greeting card from a second-rate New Age bookstore.

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The Lego Movie

Surprise! It's really good!

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The Monuments Men

Film about a mission to recover art stolen by the Nazis fails to quicken pulse.

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That Awkward Moment

Too much bathroom humor in this ill-conceived bromantic comedy

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Labor Day

Not even the talented leads can save this ridiculous romance.

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Lone Survivor

A bloody battle in Afghanistan brought vividly (too vividly?) to life.

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Her

On falling in love (with an Operating System)

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

For a film about taking risks and embracing adventure, it feels awfully safe.

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Blue is the Warmest Color

An emotional repertoire of adolescence

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Review: 12 Years a Slave

The best film about the tragedy of American slavery I’ve ever seen.

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Review: Django Unchained

He’s 49 years old, but in some ways, Quentin Tarantino is still that genius kid in the video store.