Most of the cast returns to this belated sequel to the hit 2008 musical, which represents a rundown of ABBA’s not-so-greatest hits
This timely drama recounting the Washington Post’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers is one of 2017’s best films
Ricki and the Flash is good-enough as it is, but Streep’s performance makes it something special
Into the Woods is largely a drag despite lively performances and Stephen Sondheim’s wonderful music and lyrics
The Giver is well put together by director Philip Noyce and fully engaging, but the adaptation leaves a lot to be desired
The Big Chill meets The Celebration meets Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf in director John Wells’ August: Osage County
Hope Springs doesn’t really fully explore its central concept, but two terrific central performances help boost this into above-average territory
Streep took home an Oscar for a particularly bland and passionless role that fails to capture the essence of the iconic politician
It’s Complicated is well-produced, with a better cast than the material deserves, and its target audience should enjoy it
There’s exactly half a great film in Nora Ephron’s Julie and Julia: the Julia half, based on Julia Child’s My Life in France
John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt is thought-provoking and refreshingly ambiguous
ABBA’s music can be plenty fun, and Mamma Mia! has fleeting, all-too-brief glimpses of that fun
The stars of Robert Redford´s Lions for Lambs deliver with gusto
Evening stars Claire Danes in a awkwardly structured but mildly compelling story