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Satire ‘Him’ fumbles its potent premise
American society probably puts more pressure on producing a good quarterback…
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Sweeney lands a knockout
Sydney Sweeney came to the Toronto International Film Festival wanting to talk…
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‘Hamnet’ wins fest award
“Hamnet,” Chloé Zhao’s drama about William Shakespeare’s marriage and the death…
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Director’s Frankenstein dreams come alive
On the first day of shooting “Frankenstein,” Guillermo del Toro held up a…
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'Knives Out’ sequel debuts at Toronto festival
For the third time, the knives were out at the Toronto International Film…
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Filmmakers sweet on Candy
“I wish I had more bad things to say about him,” Bill Murray says in the…
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Oscar winner wraps on two decades of ‘Avatar’
James Cameron recently turned 71 as he brought his third “Avatar” film, “Fire…
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‘Baltimorons’ unwraps cheer from unlikely pair
Director Jay Duplass’ “Baltimorons” is one of those little movies you might…
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‘Bear’ star taking ‘leap of faith’ as Springsteen
Jeremy Allen White grew up listening to Bruce Springsteen. He doesn’t remember…
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‘Saul’ star becomes a ‘Nobody’ on silver screen
Bob Odenkirk ducks into a West Village coffee shop wearing sunglasses and a…
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Butler is ‘Caught Stealing’ charming NYC-set caper
Darren Aronofsky has made several indelibly New York movies. But his latest, “…
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‘Splitsville’ makes for a worthwhile destination
Following their 2020 breakout film, “The Climb,” Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo…
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Film festival pulls documentary on Hamas attack
The Toronto International Film Festival pulled from its lineup a documentary on…
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The ‘Naked’ truth: Neeson is no Nielsen
Some say directing is 90% casting. In the case of Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank…
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Sandler takes another swing in ‘Gilmore 2’
“Happy Gilmore” was born on the range. When Adam Sandler was growing up in New…
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‘Four’ are finally ‘Fantastic’ in ‘First Steps’
More than six decades after Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created a superhero team to…
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‘Bottle’ master refreshes ‘Jurassic’ franchise
An eyeball, big, yellowish, distinctly inhuman, stares raptly between wooden…
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Bolt from the blue mess that is ‘Smurfs’
Justin Timberlake had “Trolls.” Rihanna has “Smurfs.” Like “Trolls,” “Smurfs”…
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Lois nearly ‘steels’ the film from ‘Superman’
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … a purple and orange shape-shifting chemical…
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Experts: ‘Sinners’ among the best films of year
Often the best movies of the second half of the year come almost preordained as…
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Veto ‘Heads of State’
The Idris Elba-John Cena vehicle “Heads of State” is surely the first buddy…
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‘Jurassic World’ has its own ‘commandments’
If you’re going to let dinosaurs run amok, it’s good to have some ground rules…
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A very good boy stars in ‘Friend’
The star of “The Friend” has the loping stride of Robert Mitchum and the droopy…
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From bumper to bumper, ‘F1’ is a winner
The wide-screen spectacle of Formula One gets a gleaming, rip-roaring workout…
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You won’t be ‘Sorry’ you caught filmmaker’s debut
Agnes lives in a quaint New England home where her best friend and fellow…
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Hollywood can still learn from ‘Jaws’
Fifty years after “Jaws” sunk its teeth into theaters, few films have been more…
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‘28 Years Later’ different from all else you’ll catch in theaters
Danny Boyle’s 2002 dystopian thriller “28 Days Later” managed to be on the…
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Ana de Armas pirouettes into action as the star of ‘Ballerina’
Years before Ana de Armas was using an ice skate to slice a neck in “From the…
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‘Ballad’ revisits past of its characters, creators
By the time a film arrives on movie screens, its makers often strive to find…
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Actor, director destined to ‘Scheme’ together
Actor Michael Cera and director Wes Anderson make for an actor-director pairing…
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