Movies
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‘Lilo & Stitch’ a sweet but unnecessary live-action remake
May 20, 2025 12:16 pm - The alien Stitch from “Lilo and Stitch” doesn’t choose to be bad. He’s just genetically programmed that way. Kind of like the way Disney is apparently programmed these days to strip mine its old animated stories to make poor live-action remakes.
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Tom Cruise goes for broke in ‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’
May 20, 2025 8:58 am - Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt is getting a bit of a god complex. It’s not exactly his fault after defying death and completing impossible missions time and time again. But in “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,” there’s a breathlessness to the naive trust from his growing band of disciples.
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Denzel Washington receives surprise honorary Palme d’Or at Cannes premiere for ‘Highest 2 Lowest’
May 19, 2025 1:16 pm - Denzel Washington sandwiched a whirlwind trip to the Cannes Film Festival, in between Broadway performances, for the premiere of Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest” on Monday — and was rewarded with a surprise: an honorary Palme d’Or.
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What to stream: Krasinski and Portman search for ‘Fountain of Youth,’ and Joe Jonas’ album
May 19, 2025 5:30 am - Joe Jonas’ sophomore solo album, “Work It Out,” and John Krasinski and Natalie Portman searching for immortality in Guy Ritchie’s adventure movie “Fountain of Youth” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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‘Final Destination: Bloodlines’ tops box office while The Weeknd’s movie falters
May 18, 2025 2:19 pm - Death is not looming for the “Final Destination” franchise at the box office. Its sixth installment, “Final Destination: Bloodlines,” drew big crowds to movie theaters this weekend and easily topped the domestic charts with $51 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Jennifer Lawrence stirs Oscar talk in Cannes for ‘Die, My Love’
May 18, 2025 2:05 pm - Last year, the Cannes Film Festival produced three best actress nominees at the Oscars. This year’s edition may have just supplied another: Jennifer Lawrence in Lynne Ramsay’s “Die, My Love.”
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Cannes promotional stunts, once a feature of the festival, go missing
May 16, 2025 1:25 pm - You can get nostalgic about almost anything at the Cannes Film Festival, even Jerry Seinfeld on a zip line in a bumblebee costume.
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‘Deaf President Now!’ amplifies the birth of a rights movement
May 16, 2025 9:39 am - The events depicted in “Deaf President Now!” — a documentary revisiting the 1988 protest by students at Gallaudet University that led to the selection of the school’s first deaf president in its 124-year history — may seem like an incremental advancement for representation in the deaf community. But it was so much more.
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The Weeknd’s ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ is a surrealist vanity project
May 16, 2025 9:19 am - In “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” the tedium of an incoherent first act paints charismatic performer The Weeknd — one of the last few decades’ most popular — as an unempathetic protagonist in a nonlinear and nonsensical world.
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Bono: ‘The world has never been closer to a world war in my lifetime’
May 15, 2025 4:34 pm - Cannes is a short trip from Bono’s seaside villa in Eze-sur-Mer. But that doesn’t mean the Cannes Film Festival is a particularly familiar experience for the U2 frontman. He’s here to premiere the Apple TV+ documentary “Bono: Stories of Surrender.”