Movies
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Metaphorical teen fantasy 'I Kill Giants' dinged by glaring unrealityMar 23, 2018 6:00 am - "I Kill Giants" - ★ ★ ★ I'm guessing that Anders Walter's metaphorical "I Kill Giants" opens only at the Woodridge Theater this weekend because its modest scope and relu...
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Disappointing wilts as dark coming-of-age revenge taleMar 22, 2018 6:00 am - “Flower” - ★ ½ When we first meet Erica, the 17-year-old girl at the center of “Flower,” she's in the process of blackmailing a police officer — and he isn't the f...
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Steven Soderbergh's 'Unsane' an unsurprising, but unnerving thrillerMar 22, 2018 6:00 am - “Unsane” - ★ ★ ★ Most of us probably have seen a movie about “normal” people mistakenly or maliciously committed to mental institutions against their will. But not quit...
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'Paul, Apostle of Christ' offers well-timed portrait of spiritual integrityMar 22, 2018 6:00 am - “Paul, Apostle of Christ” - ★ ★ ★ “Paul, Apostle of Christ” comes from Sony Pictures Entertainment's Affirm label, an offshoot that has produced such Christian-the...
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'Pacific Rim Uprising' blasts away with winning combo of action, humorMar 21, 2018 12:00 pm - “Pacific Rim Uprising” - ★ ★ ★ ½ At the end of the monsters-versus-robots flick “Pacific Rim,” a breach at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean is closed, plugging a hole tha...
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Box Office Top 20: 'Black Panther' bests 'Tomb Raider'
Mar 19, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The MGM-Warner Bros. reboot "Tomb Raider" couldn't dethrone "Black Panther" at the weekend box office in U.S. and Canada theaters, as Ryan Coogler's supe...
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Why female portrayals of power on screen need to evolveMar 19, 2018 6:00 am - In "Tomb Raider," Alicia Vikander channels her inner Indiana Jones, with a dash of Rambo thrown in: affecting just the right number of scrapes and cuts and a no-nonsense...
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'Black Panther' tops box office for 5th straight weekend
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'Love, Simon' breaks ground with a radical ordinarinessMar 17, 2018 11:00 pm - LOS ANGELES - “Love, Simon” is in many ways an ordinary high school film, one of those glossy, endlessly watchable and entertaining romps made in the vein of all those J...
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Lara Croft is back and she's not here to be ogledMar 17, 2018 7:28 am - You could be forgiven for not immediately recognizing Lara Croft in the latest incarnation of "Tomb Raider," which hit theaters Friday. Gone are the massive breasts, mic...