Movies
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Movie review: 'Transformers' gets a great savior in 'Bumblebee'Dec 20, 2018 5:00 am - “Bumblebee” - ★ ★ ★ The “Transformers” movie universe has lately been leaky and rusted out. It's become shorthand for bad blockbuster moviemaking - male-driven, mindles...
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Movie review: Step into 'Marwen,' where figurines help healDec 20, 2018 5:00 am - “Welcome to Marwen” - ★ ★ ½ In the 2010 documentary “Marwencol,” the world met Mark Hogancamp, the survivor of a vicious beating 10 years earlier who had turned to art ...
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Flying nanny returns in spirited sequel to 'Mary Poppins'Dec 18, 2018 2:30 pm - “Mary Poppins Returns” - ★ ★ ★ It may not be super, but it still qualifies as a califragilisticexpialidocious sequel to Walt Disney's 1964 live-action/animated mashup m...
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Gire on Penny Marshall: Hollywood's most unassuming, barrier-bashing directorDec 18, 2018 12:00 am - I asked budding filmmaker Penny Marshall back in the 1980s what she liked best about directing a movie. "Ooooohh, I'm trying to figure out what I like about it," she rep...
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Emily Blunt takes on 'daunting' challenge of playing 'Mary Poppins'Dec 16, 2018 6:25 am - Emily Blunt loves a challenge, and in the world of movie musicals there's no greater trial than following in the footsteps of Julie Andrews to bring one of her most icon...
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'Spider-Verse' swings to the top; 'Mortal Engines' tanks
Dec 16, 2018 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES - "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" swung to the top of the domestic box office in its first weekend in theaters, proving that there is widespread audience...
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Shameik Moore slings webs as film's first biracial Spider-ManDec 15, 2018 6:00 am - A journal entry penned when Shameik Moore was a teenager laid out one of his dreams — to play Spider-Man on the big screen. That dream is now partially realized with Moo...
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Movie review: Clint Eastwood takes fascinating journey as a drug smuggler in 'The Mule'Dec 14, 2018 5:00 am - “The Mule” - ★ ★ ★ Both tender apologia and vigorous justification, Clint Eastwood's “The Mule” is a deeply, fascinatingly personal meditation from the 88-year-old ...
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Movie review: Teen star outshines Natalie Portman in disappointing 'Vox Lux'Dec 14, 2018 5:00 am - “Vox Lux” - ★ ★ Natalie Portman is the putative headliner in “Vox Lux,” an ambitious but ultimately ungraceful meditation on pop superstardom that spans decades, awkwar...
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Movie review: Julia Roberts' performance propels addiction drama 'Ben is Back'Dec 13, 2018 5:00 am - “Ben is Back” - ★ ★ ★ In one of Julia Roberts' many heartbreaking scenes in “Ben is Back” - and they're pretty much all heartbreaking - she lays down the law to her 19-...