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'Lady Bird' kicks 'Toy Story 2' to the Rotten Tomatoes curb
Today in Entertainment: Royal wedding location set; 'Get Out' scores big at 2017 Gotham Awards Grammy nominations 2018 updates: People of color and women dominate top four categories Royal wedding location set; Meghan Markle to become U.K. citizen Jordan Peele's'Get Out' scores big at 2017 Gotham Awards Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers take on Trump's'big, beautiful' tax cut'Avengers: Infinity War' will be a finale of sorts, producer Kevin Feige says Seth Meyers to host the 2018 Golden Globes Royal wedding location set; Meghan Markle to become U.K. citizen Jordan Peele's'Get Out' scores big at 2017 Gotham Awards Trevor Noah and Seth Meyers take on Trump's'big, beautiful' tax cut'Avengers: Infinity War' will be a finale of sorts, producer Kevin Feige says'Lady Bird' kicks'Toy Story 2' to the Rotten Tomatoes curb Greta Gerwig's directorial debut, "Lady Bird," has broken a Rotten Tomatoes record: It has accumulated the longest run of positive reviews ever recorded by the movie website. As of Tuesday morning, the film written by Gerwig and starring Saoirse Ronan found itself at 170 fresh reviews and counting, with an overall rating of 8.9 out of 10 from critics and no "rotten" reviews. About 87% of the audience rated it 3.5 stars or better. Here's some perspective: Before "Lady Bird" earned its 164th consecutive positive review on Monday, the Rotten Tomatoes title was held by "Toy Story 2," an animated crowd-pleaser released in 1999. "Citizen Kane" also has 100% positive critical response, with a 9.4 rating, but only 75 reviews total.
Alexander Payne stretches himself with 'Downsizing,' but the execution proves puny
Toronto Diary: Ethan Hawke plays a man of the cloth in the haunting'First Reformed' Los Angeles Times critic Justin Chang on the double-Rachel feature (Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz) "Disobedience" and how TIFF 2017 has been a showcase of acting talent for the actress leads. Los Angeles Times critic Justin Chang on the double-Rachel feature (Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz) "Disobedience" and how TIFF 2017 has been a showcase of acting talent for the actress leads. 'First Reformed,' 'Downsizing' bring climate change to the fore "Will God forgive us for destroying his creation?" The man asking the question is the Rev. Toller (Ethan Hawke), an ex-military chaplain-turned-rural minister who finds himself undergoing a profound crisis of faith. He has already lost a son and a wife, and his insides are rotting from cancer, all of which might well drive even a devout believer to feel that God has abandoned him. But what genuinely haunts Toller, and inspires him to consider an act of extreme, violent desperation, is his eye-opening encounter with Michael (Philip Ettinger), a militant eco-activist who is terrified by the prospect of humanity's mass extinction. "First Reformed," Paul Schrader's somber, beautifully composed and entirely mesmerizing new drama, is not a work of particular subtlety. Its moral argument is as clear and crystalline as its images, shot by cinematographer Alexander Dynan in the nearly square academy-aspect ratio. The severity of Toller's convictions, as well as his disgust at the knowledge that his church has taken money from one of the town's biggest polluters, gives rise to an angry, confrontational question: Why have so many Christians rejected the science of climate change, effectively abdicated their God-given responsibility to look after the Earth?