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Jimmy Kimmel embraces the challenge of hosting the Oscars

Hosting the Academy Awards is a bit like dating Taylor Swift. Pretty much everybody in show business wants to give it a try, but it almost never ends well.

Muddled ‘Hands of Stone’ doesn’t pack much punch

Roberto Duran was famously known for having hands of stone. But in the hands of writer-director Jonathan Jakubowicz, the legendary Panamanian boxer also has all the charisma of a bag of wet sand.

Home-invasion thriller ‘Don’t Breathe’ is a shockingly good time

With its “Home Alone”-style house of horrors, “Don’t Breathe” almost never goes where you’d expect. And it’s exhilarating in the way it manages to keep topping itself with new levels of twistedness.

Dirty-cop drama ‘Triple 9’ squanders cast’s considerable talents

The cast of the crooked-cop drama “Triple 9” boasts an Oscar winner and three other nominees, a three-time Emmy winner and an additional nominee, an Avenger, a member of the Justice League and the breakout star of “The Walking Dead.” The lesson? Everybody has bills to pay.

‘Ted 2,’ like its hero’s midsection, is overstuffed

The sequel is part buddy comedy, part road trip, part courtroom drama and part goofy action spectacle. But none of the genres is given the time to be sufficiently, satisfyingly explored, despite the movie’s way-too-long 115-minute running time.

Filthy lightning doesn’t strike twice for Aniston

Her dirty dentist was one of the highlights of “Horrible Bosses.” But, like much of the sequel, her sexually voracious character feels lazier and cheaper in “Horrible Bosses 2.”

Bill Murray at his best in laugh-filled but predictable ‘St. Vincent’

If there’s one criticism of “St. Vincent,” the dark comedy in which a timid 12-year-old boy (Jaeden Lieberher) strikes up an odd friendship with the curmudgeonly misanthrope (Bill Murray) who lives next door, it’s that anyone who’s ever seen a movie has a pretty good idea where it’s going to end up.

 
Washington at his charismatic best in ‘The Equalizer’

For one of the most head-scratching choices for a TV adaptation in recent memory — Honestly, what’s next? Vin Diesel in a gritty reboot of “The Father Dowling Mysteries”? — “The Equalizer” is immensely appealing and so much more entertaining than you’d expect.

 
‘The Other Woman’ misses its mark on so many levels

For a movie about three intelligent women — well, two intelligent women and an amiable assemblage of curves played by model Kate Upton — “The Other Woman” is disappointingly, disturbingly dumb.