Movies
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Nicole Kidman, who ‘makes movies better,’ gets AFI Life Achievement Award
Apr 28, 2024 9:00 am - Morgan Freeman spoke the words, but pretty much everyone who took the stage at the presentation of the AFI Life Achievement Award agreed: “Nicole Kidman. She makes movies better.”
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‘Boy Kills World’ offers bare-knuckle yuks
Apr 26, 2024 9:47 am - What happens when a movie’s unreliable narrator turns out to be the movie itself? “Boy Kills World,” a cheeky and extremely bloody action extravaganza, keeps an audience so off-balance for so long that you may throw in the towel well before the final bad guy falls.
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With ‘Alien’ back in theaters, ‘Alien: Romulus’ director teases how the new film connects
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A prickly treat: Prepare yourself for stylish, synthy tennis drama ‘Challengers’Apr 25, 2024 5:30 am - “Challengers” is a bit of a tease. That’s what makes it fun. It’s a sexy tennis movie about friendship, love, competition and sport starring Josh O’Connor, Zendaya and Mike Faist. It might not contain exactly what you think it does. Manage expectations, but also trust.
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What to stream this week: A Bon Jovi documentary, Idris Elba in ‘Knuckles’ and ‘Anyone But You’
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‘Civil War’ continues box-office campaign at No. 1Apr 21, 2024 2:42 pm - “Civil War,” Alex Garland’s ominous American dystopia, remained the top film in theaters in its second week of release, according to studio estimates Sunday.
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‘Civil War’ and the elusiveness of the of-the-moment movie
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A heist movie gleefully collides with a monster movie in ‘Abigail’
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‘We Grown Now’ a lyrical portrait of childhood growing up in Cabrini-GreenApr 18, 2024 11:45 am - Two 11-year-old boys navigate school, friendship, family and change in Minhal Baig’s lyrical drama “We Grown Now.” It’s an evocative memory piece, wistful and honest, and a different kind of portrait of a very infamous place: Chicago’s Cabrini-Green public housing development.
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‘Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ amps up a true-tale WWII heist