Movies
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Movie review: ‘Lisa Frankenstein’ lurches from idiocy to whimsy and ends up unwatchableFeb 08, 2024 6:26 am - It will come as no surprise that the new movie “Lisa Frankenstein” is a real monster — stitched together from previous movies, painfully incoherent and deeply, deeply dumb.
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Movie review: A village in Bhutan learns about democracy and teaches us, too, in ‘Monk and the Gun’Feb 08, 2024 5:45 am - For a piercing refresher lesson on democracy, one wouldn’t necessarily think of rural Bhutan as the first place to look. Writer-director Pawo Choyning Dorji centers his delightful, moving and clever new satire on a moment in 2006 when officials first fan out into the countryside to introduce this concept called “election.”
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Movie review: ‘Tótem’ is a masterful child’s-eye view of family and deathFeb 08, 2024 5:45 am - For a film about death, Lila Avilés’ “Tótem” is extraordinarily lived in.
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Taylor Swift’s ‘The Eras Tour’ is heading to Disney+ with 5 new songs added
Feb 07, 2024 4:31 pm - Taylor Swift's blockbuster concert film “The Eras Tour” will make its streaming debut on Disney+, the Walt Disney Co. announced Wednesday. The film, now titled “Taylor S...
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Movie review: Wim Wenders’ ‘Perfect Days’ is sublimeFeb 07, 2024 5:30 am - Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” is set among the crowded skyscrapers of Tokyo and the quiet urban parks that Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) traverses daily in his job cleaning public toilets. But where the movie resides, really, is Yakusho’s face.
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What to stream this week, Super Bowl edition: Usher, classic commercials and lots of puppiesFeb 05, 2024 5:45 am - Usher’s first new solo album in eight years and “Abbott Elementary” debuting its third season on ABC are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you.
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‘Argylle,’ with checkered reviews, flops with $18M for the big-budget Apple releaseFeb 04, 2024 3:21 pm - Apple has had its first box office flop. “Argylle,” the $200-million star-studded spy thriller from Apple Studios, debuted with $18 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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Footballer-turned-actor Carl Weathers, who starred in 'Rocky' movies and 'The Mandalorian,' dies
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‘Orion and the Dark’ loses itself in the leap from children’s book to animated filmFeb 01, 2024 6:00 am - To say the hero of Netflix's new animated movie “Orion and the Dark” is fearful is an understatement. One thing that scares Orion the most is darkness. And that is where things get going in this very uneven movie.
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‘Argylle’ won’t blow your socks offFeb 01, 2024 5:45 am - Crisscrossing patterns of ridiculousness and self-satisfaction run through “Argylle,” a tiresome meta movie that puts an awful lot of zest into an awfully empty high-concept story.