Movies
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‘Weapons’ regains the top spot as the summer box office winds down
Aug 31, 2025 2:28 pm - “Weapons” found its way back on top during the Labor Day weekend, culminating a summer box office that’s likely to fall right below meeting last year’s earnings.
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May the nearly perfect drama ‘A Little Prayer’ find its audience
Aug 28, 2025 10:20 am - Angus MacLachlan’s “A Little Prayer” made its first appearance at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023, and those of us who cherished this small-scale, nearly perfect drama of small-town American lives were worried it might never see the light of day again. Yet here it is at last, and all I can say is: Go.
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Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman make a love story very dark in ‘The Roses’
Aug 28, 2025 5:30 am - “The Roses” begins in a marriage therapist’s office, where Theo Rose has something interesting to say about his longtime wife, Ivy: “I would rather live with her than a wolf.”
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Darren Aronofsky’s crime caper ‘Caught Stealing’ an affectionate ode to ’90s New York
Aug 28, 2025 5:30 am - Darren Aronofsky’s latest movie, “Caught Stealing,” is easily the director’s most affectionate portrait of New York. This terrific caper, starring Austin Butler as a Lower East Side man inadvertently drawn into a nightmarish crime world, is a period movie set in 1998.
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Murder, she solved: Helen Mirren channels Angela Lansbury in ‘Thursday Murder Club’
Aug 27, 2025 3:06 pm - In “The Thursday Murder Club,” an amiable, cozy, pleasantly entertaining adaptation of Richard Osman’s mystery novel, the four club members, led by Helen Mirren in her no-nonsense plaid blazers, depart from yoga and Sudoku each week at their retirement community to consider cold cases.
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‘Splitsville’ a screwball comedy of infidelity with some cinematic verve
Aug 26, 2025 4:07 pm - You can say this: Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin know how to start a movie. Their new film “Splitsville” kicks off with heartbreak on the open road.
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What to stream: ‘Thunderbolts*,’ Sabrina Carpenter, Eminem’s ‘Stans,’ Meghan bakes and ‘KPopped’
Aug 25, 2025 12:07 pm - Sabrina Carpenter’s seventh studio album, “Man’s Best Friend,” and Marvel’s “Thunderbolts*” starring Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ gives Netflix its first box-office win
Aug 24, 2025 3:38 pm - Netflix appears to have its first No. 1 box-office title in the streaming company’s 18-year history thanks to the sensation of “KPop Demon Hunters.”
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Riz Ahmed rises to the occasion in ‘Relay’
Aug 22, 2025 9:29 am - Until it goes kerblooey in the last 15 minutes, “Relay” is the very model of a modern genre thriller: Taut, tight, squeezing the maximum of suspense and character detail from the minimum of gestures.
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Missed ‘Shin Godzilla’ in 2016? A 4K restoration is screening in suburban theaters now.
Aug 21, 2025 1:15 pm - What’s a summer without a Godzilla movie? Luckily, this isn’t the year to find out because the giant, city-stomping reptile is back in “Shin Godzilla” — a welcome rerelease in suburban theaters of a film that you may have missed on its first run almost a decade ago.