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Best cameo? Best hat? Ahead of the Oscars, AP hands out its own awards

By LINDSEY BAHR and JAKE COYLE
Mar 07, 2024 3:54 pm - The Academy Awards honor many things in movies but not some of the most important. Ahead of Sunday’s Oscars, AP Film Writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle make selections for their own awards — some more offbeat than others.
Writer-director Julio Torres proves a storyteller to cheer with awesome ‘Problemista’

By MARK KENNEDY
Mar 07, 2024 3:33 pm - The hero of “Problemista” sees the world differently. He’s an aspiring toy designer named Alejandro who thinks today’s toys are too fun. He’s the creation of Julio Torres, who stars, directs and wrote “Problemista,” an off-kilter and very winning film.
‘Cabrini’ tells the unknown story behind the well-known name

By Ann Hornaday
Mar 07, 2024 3:26 pm - “Cabrini,” an illuminating if workmanlike portrait of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, tells the story of the woman behind the name that has graced hundreds of shrines, hospitals, parks and schools around the world.
And the Oscar goes to ... a movie most people have seen

By JAKE COYLE
Mar 07, 2024 1:36 pm - The Oscars are poised to do something on Sunday that they haven’t done in a very long time: Hand its top award to a blockbuster.
John Cena gets the laughs in middling comedy ‘Ricky Stanicky’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Mar 07, 2024 12:59 pm - Peter Farrelly’s “Ricky Stanicky” feels like one of those lesser 2000 comedies that wanted so badly to be “There’s Something About Mary.” One of the problems is that it is filmed with all the artfulness of a yogurt commercial.
Oscars producers promise cameos and surprises for Sunday’s (1 hour earlier) show

By LINDSEY BAHR
Mar 07, 2024 12:22 pm - With just a few days to go until the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday (airing one hour earlier at 6 p.m.), the show’s producers are feeling good about what they’ve put together.
‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ is a sweet, fun and well executed passing of the torch

By MARK KENNEDY
Mar 07, 2024 5:45 am - “Kung Fu Panda 4” finds our trusty, rotund hero Po at a career crossroads and he’s nervous. “Kung Fu Panda 4” also finds the franchise at an inflection point, but there’s no reason for us to be nervous. DreamWorks knows what it’s doing.
After a decade in limbo, Zac Efron and John Cena’s buddy comedy ‘Ricky Stanicky’ hits streaming

By KRYSTA FAURIA
Mar 06, 2024 3:50 pm - Director Peter Farrelly, who made “There’s Something About Mary” more than 25 years ago, is banking on that same thirst for vulgarity and depraved humor for “Ricky Stanicky,” his latest buddy comedy starring Zac Efron and John Cena that hits Prime Video on Thursday.
Q&A: Jimmy Kimmel is hosting the Oscars again. This time, it’s an election year

By JAKE COYLE
Mar 05, 2024 2:24 pm - Through one of the most tumultuous periods in Oscars history, through flub and slap, Jimmy Kimmel has emerged as the steadying hand and abiding face of the Academy Awards.
Oscars 2024: Film critic Dann Gire predicts who will win and who should win

By Dann Gire
Mar 05, 2024 6:13 am - Christopher Nolan’s historical epic “Oppenheimer” will dust the competition during the 96th Academy Awards, film critic Dann Gire says. See if he’s correct when the Oscars air live at 6 p.m. Sunday, March 10, on ABC.

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