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Something’s missing in thriller ‘It Comes at Night’

Found-footage movies have been a staple of horror cinema for years. But this psychological thriller feels like the start of a new genre: the lost-footage movie.

Downtown Las Vegas’ adult-friendly Eclipse Theater finally opens

It’s the movie theater you’ve been waiting for. Literally and figuratively. After a weeklong test run, Eclipse Theaters, 814 S. Third St., is celebrating its grand opening on Thursday, more than two years after its first announced opening date.

Tom Hanks-piloted ‘Sully’ as solid and unassuming as its hero

Put Tom Hanks in charge of pretty much any vessel — be it the container ship from “Captain Phillips,” the lunar module from “Apollo 13,” even the school bus from “Bachelor Party” — and something is bound to go wrong.

‘Hot Pursuit’ is a hot mess

The Reese Witherspoon-Sofia vergara action comedy is little more than 87 minutes of bickering, embarrassing physical comedy, lazy insults and man shaming. But at least it’s awful in a genial way, compared to that angry, dead-inside feeling you got from watching “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2.”

‘Inherent Vice’ delivers a groovy contact high

You don’t watch writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s hippie-noir take on that confusing maelstrom between the end of the ’60s and the start of the ’70s so much as you let it wash over you like the smell of patchouli.