Movies
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Big ideas, small screens - Dann Gire's Top 10 movies of 2020Dec 27, 2020 6:18 am - As the old saying goes, hindsight is 2020. And movie fans are among the throngs of people who want to see 2020 in hindsight. It was a year in which COVID-19 brought movi...
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George Clooney offers a bright outlook despite bleak new film
Dec 26, 2020 6:30 am - George Clooney's on the line. It's early December, and he's calling from his house in Los Angeles, where the family's 165-pound Saint Bernard, Rosie, is barreling toward...
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Working with Chadwick Boseman on 'Ma Rainey' taught Colman Domingo to treat each role like it's your last
Dec 26, 2020 6:30 am - Leaning against the outer wall of a practice room, Chadwick Boseman listened intently as his co-star, Colman Domingo, narrated the experience of a Black minister harasse...
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Rage, reckoning come to forefront in 'Promising Young Woman'
Dec 26, 2020 6:30 am - Emerald Fennell wanted to write about female rage. Before #MeToo became ubiquitous, she had been thinking about complacency and the teen movies of her youth where consen...
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An old-fashioned romance unfolds in Amazon Prime film 'Sylvie's Love'
Dec 25, 2020 5:00 am - “Sylvie's Love” - ★ ★ ½ It's summertime in Harlem in 1957 when we get to know the beautiful souls at the center of “Sylvie's Love.” Sylvie (Tessa Thompson) works at the ...
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Pixar's 'Soul' has plenty of visual razzle-dazzle, and a convoluted, existential plot
Dec 25, 2020 5:00 am - “Soul” - ★ ★ ½ The visual details, humanism and weighty themes sent aloft with gossamer lightness that add up to “that Pixar touch” are in abundant supply in “Soul...
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In 2020, the best entertainment was like eating grilled cheese and tomato soupDec 24, 2020 5:00 am - Tasked with producing an end-of-year list of some kind, I keep coming back to one word that best sums up my screentime in 2020: comfort. Comfort is hard to come by in a ...
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Action-packed 'Wonder Woman 1984' a mixed blessing for superhero film fansDec 24, 2020 5:00 am - “Wonder Woman 1984” - ★ ★ Just when we needed a pure escapist superhero movie to lift us out of our pandemic malaise and inspire us with some truth, justice and American...
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George Clooney impresses as star and director in moving 'The Midnight Sky'
Dec 22, 2020 9:00 am - “The Midnight Sky” - ★ ★ ★ ★ Netflix is on a roll this year, with “Mank,” “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,” “Da 5 Bloods” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” all garnering Oscar ...
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New to streaming this week: 'Soul,' 'Wonder Woman 1984' and more
Dec 22, 2020 5:00 am - Here's a collection curated by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists of what's arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. Movies To som...