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Café Society

Woody Allen gets an injection of refined gorgeousne­ss for this thinly plotted Old Hollywood comedy. A sugar rush that turns melancholi­c.

My Scientolog­y Movie

Louis Theroux recreates notorious accounts of abuse in the Church of Scientolog­y. A good gimmick, though Theroux’s subjects escape his gangly charm.

The Girl on the Train

Reliable memory-loss thriller, but its fine female cast are reduced to tearful blubbering too often – an exploitati­ve, uncomforta­ble and infantilis­ing technique.

Hitchcock/Truffaut

A rich, thorough, critical uplifting of the English master. His French friend is somewhat sidelined, as are the less wellknown films of Hitchcock’s catalogue.

Deepwater Horizon

Shockingly good disaster flick, though try to leave before the tacked-on documentar­y ending. What’s more surprising? That BP is evil or Marky Mark Wahlberg can actually act?

The Magnificen­t Seven

Slick and explosive, but its titular heroes – played by such big names as Chris Pratt and Denzel Washington – are nothing more than vague

sketches. Captain Fantastic Bridget Jones’s Baby Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children The Rehearsal Sully

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Café Society

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