Movies
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Movie guide for Aug. 31: 'Searching,' 'Little Stranger' and more reviewsAug 30, 2018 11:00 pm - Movies in theaters the week of Aug. 31 Ratings guide: Four stars: superior. Three stars: good. Two stars: average. One star: poor. D (drug use), L (language), N (nu...
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Movie review: 'The Little Stranger' spins menacing, slow-burn ghost taleAug 30, 2018 6:00 am - “The Little Stranger” - ★ ★ ★ ★ Most haunted houses, at least in movies, share basic qualities: They are empty, dilapidated and the floorboards creak a little too much....
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Movie review: Brothers dodge gangsters and aliens in inept teen thriller 'Kin'Aug 30, 2018 6:00 am - “Kin” - ★ ½ In the teen sci-fi thriller “Kin,” a shy 14-year-old kid finds unearthly powers in the vacant warehouses of Detroit — an intriguing if standard young-a...
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Movie review: 'Bookshop' is a good excuse to watch three great actorsAug 30, 2018 6:00 am - “The Bookshop” - ★ ★ ★ Based on a 1978 novel by Penelope Fitzgerald, “The Bookshop” tells the quiet, unhurried and gently bittersweet tale of a widow (Emily Mortimer) w...
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Movie review: John Cho looks for his missing daughter in smart 'Searching'Aug 30, 2018 6:00 am - "Searching" - ★ ★ ★ I predict that theaters being used as giant computer screens with rapid-fire "dialogue" boxes that spit out perfectly spelled words will become as c...
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Watch a film on 'The Singing Revolution,' learn about Estonian history Sept. 5Aug 28, 2018 11:00 pm - On Wednesday, Sept. 5, the Wheaton Center for Faith, Politics and Economics will host a screening of the film "The Singing Revolution" and a lecture by Mari-Ann Kelam ti...
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Movie review: Ben Kingsley gives chilling performance in disappointing 'Operation Finale'Aug 27, 2018 11:00 pm - “Operation Finale” — ★ ★ ½ Talk about the banality of evil. Chris Weitz's fact-based, post-World War II wannabe thriller “Operation Finale” exemplifies the banality...
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Box office top 20: 'Crazy Rich Asians' scores again
Aug 27, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - It's official: "Crazy Rich Asians" is a box-office sensation. The adaptation of Kevin Kwan's bestselling novel, starring Constance Wu and Henry Golding, ...
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With minuscule drop, 'Crazy Rich Asians' is No. 1 again
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New versions of Hercule Poirot keep coming, and that's a good thingAug 25, 2018 7:28 am - Long before I saw the recent Hollywood version of "Murder on the Orient Express," I was aware of the controversy surrounding Hercule Poirot's mustache. First, there was ...