Movies
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Radha Blank of 'The Forty-Year-Old Version' isn't late
Oct 11, 2020 11:00 pm - If Radha Blank had a tagline for her film, “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” it would be: “You don't age out of your passion.” Blank wrote, directed and stars in her debut f...
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Dreams collide with cruel reality for young Filipina singer in 'Yellow Rose'
Oct 09, 2020 6:00 am - “Yellow Rose” - ★ ★ ½ “I'm illegal,” says Rosario “Rose” Garcia (Eva Noblezada), a Filipina living undocumented in Texas, in Diane Paragas' “Yellow Rose.” The way she sa...
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'Time' is a terrific look at the pull of loss
Oct 09, 2020 6:00 am - “Time” - ★ ★ ★ ★ There is a scene in the documentary “Time” that captures a woman on the phone trying to speak to a judge's clerk. She's put on hold. Nothing happe...
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Adam Sandler's 'Hubie Halloween' is ... good?
Oct 09, 2020 6:00 am - “Hubie Halloween” - ★ ★ ★ The distance for Adam Sandler from last year's frantic, high-wire act “Uncut Gems” to his new Netflix comedy, “Hubie Halloween,” is great...
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De Niro squanders his movie legacy in juvenile family comedy 'The War With Grandpa'Oct 09, 2020 1:00 am - “The War With Grandpa” - ★ ★ Inconceivable. Yep, that's the word. During the 1970s and 1980s, it would have been inconceivable that Robert De Niro, the most incend...
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Radha Blank makes a terrific debut in 'The Forty-Year-Old Version'
Oct 08, 2020 6:00 am - “The Forty-Year-Old Version” - ★ ★ ★ ½ Precociousness can be a curse if adulthood successes don't live up to your assumed potential. And placement on one of those ...
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Here are the biggest movie releases you'll have to keep waiting for
Oct 08, 2020 5:15 am - Regal Cinemas, the country's second-largest movie theater chain after AMC Theatres, will be suspending operations at its 536 locations on Thursday - a bold move that its...
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When movie audiences return, will theaters still be there in the suburbs?Oct 08, 2020 5:15 am - The question that haunts me most about our endangered local movie theaters is this: What if by the time audiences finally return, there aren't any theaters to return to?...
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Scary stories to stream on Netflix, Hulu and beyond for spooky seasonOct 07, 2020 11:00 pm - Spooky season has arrived, and you've probably already seen "Beetlejuice," "The Addams Family" and "Ghostbusters" a few times if you've been using your witch's wand, er,...
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'One Vote' film shares stories of diverse American voters including Chicago's Club LuckyOct 07, 2020 11:00 pm - "One Vote," the critically-acclaimed, non-partisan documentary highlights the compelling stories of diverse citizens across the country on Election Day 2016. Among the ...