Movies
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Q&A: Damien Chazelle, Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons on ‘Whiplash’ returning to theaters after 10 years
Sep 20, 2024 2:57 pm - Ten years after “Whiplash” took the film world by storm, Damien Chazelle’s breakthrough feature is returning to theaters nationwide Friday.
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Clooney and Pitt carry the fixer caper ‘Wolfs’
Sep 19, 2024 2:31 pm - The overriding tension in “Wolfs,” starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt as rival fixers brought in to clean up the same crime, isn’t so much the threat of police arrest or Albanian mob assassination. It’s that Clooney and Pitt aren’t pals — at least at first.
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‘Transformers One’ is an origin story no one wants with brutality levels no one needs
Sep 19, 2024 5:30 am - Movie origin stories finally reach their nadir this week with “Transformers One,” the super-violent, toy-selling vehicle that tells the tale of how Optimus Prime and Megatron went from besties to foes. Did anyone ask for this?
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Visionary horror film ‘The Substance’ guaranteed to shock, amaze and repulseSep 17, 2024 6:03 pm - “The Substance,” starring an excellent Demi Moore, comes from director/writer Coralie Fargeat, who elevates an exploitation premise into an explosively visionary, blackly comic cinematic experience that rails against society’s addiction to superficiality.
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What to Stream: Keith Urban, ‘The Golden Bachelorette,’ Zack Snyder series and ‘WandaVision’ spinoff
Sep 16, 2024 5:30 am - Keith Urban’s 12th studio album and Kathryn Hahn starring in the “WandaVision” spinoff “Agatha All Along” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ is No. 1 again; conservative doc ‘Am I Racist’ cracks box office top 5
Sep 15, 2024 8:23 pm - Moviegoers said yes to more “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” this weekend. After its monster opening, the Tim Burton sequel easily topped the domestic box office charts again with $51.6 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Adam Kinzinger doc ‘The Last Republican’ shows toll of opposing Trump
Sep 15, 2024 6:00 am - Adam Kinzinger’s bro-ish energy is serving him well as he makes the rounds in his new gig, as the subject of a vital — and surprisingly laugh-filled — documentary, “The Last Republican,” which debuted recently at the Toronto Film Festival.
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In ‘Look Into My Eyes,’ they see dead people, but that’s not all
Sep 13, 2024 9:42 am - “Look Into My Eyes,” an oddly dry and lovely documentary by the director Lana Wilson, opens with a montage of New Yorkers and the questions they’ve come to psychics to answer. What they seem to be seeking is connection.
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Two ideas compete for the soul of this trippy film
Sep 12, 2024 9:55 am - They say tripping on psychedelic mushrooms triggers hallucinations, anxiety, paranoia and nervousness. In the case of Elliott, an 18-year-old restless Canadian, they prompt a visitor — her 39-year-old self.
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In ‘The Critic,’ Ian McKellen’s theater critic takes his job very seriously
Sep 12, 2024 9:11 am - Without getting into any sort of philosophical, or even factual, debate about the nature of the kind of person drawn to criticism, it is safe to say that Ian McKellen’s drama critic of “The Critic” takes all the worst stereotypes to hysterical heights.