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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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King is supportive of ‘The Life of Chuck’
So vividly drawn is Stephen King’s fiction it’s offered the basis for some 50…
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Viewers will get ‘Caught’ up in captivating ‘Tides’
Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides” is less than two hours long and yet…
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Scorsese and pope made film
Martin Scorsese is producing a documentary made with Pope Francis that will…
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Movies defined the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of…
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‘Thunderbolts*’ a striking return to form
“Thunderbolts*” is the unlikely meeting of two of the dominant forces in 21st…
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‘Surfer’ rides a choppy plot
For a long, sun-addled stretch, Lorcan Finnegan’s beach-set “The Surfer”…
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Queer film reborn in ‘Wedding Banquet’
Filmmaker Andrew Ahn grew up in what he calls “a Blockbuster Video family.”…
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Cruel ‘April’ births a nearly perfect drama
Whatever cruelness you might assign to the month, Dea Kulumbegashvili’s “April…
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‘Cheech & Chong’ ride again in film
The irony tickles Cheech and Chong: The Palisades fire smoked them out of their…
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Don’t just write off ‘The Accountant 2’
On the heels of tax season, here is “The Accountant 2,” Gavin O’Connor’s sequel…
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Tribeca Festival to feature Joel, Cyrus
The 2025 Tribeca Festival will feature a medley of music stars, including Billy…
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Filmmaker let spy novelist spill secrets
Errol Morris, the veteran documentarian of “The Thin Blue Line,” “The Fog of…
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Guts are glorified in effective ‘Warfare’
In Ray Mendoza’s and Alex Garland’s “Warfare,” there are no backstories to the…
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The tension throughout ‘Drop’ is off the hook
A movie can still dial M when it wants to. At least since 1949’s “Sorry, Wrong…
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‘Magazine Dreams’ star is on a redemption tour
Throughout the implosion of his Hollywood career, from his arrest to his…
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‘Coyote vs. Acme’ finds new home
After being shelved by Warner Bros. in 2023, the Looney Tunes film “Coyote vs.…
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Series ‘The Studio’ tries to define Hollywood now
The studio head has historically been seen as a fearsome and all-powerful…
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‘Snow White’ is only middling to ‘fair’
Mirror mirror on the wall, what’s the fairest Disney live-action remake of them…
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‘Black Bag’ a real asset to spy genre
If you’re hosting a dinner for half a dozen British intelligence agents with…
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‘Eephus’ nearly pitch perfect
In Carson Lund’s “Eephus,” the Riverdogs and Adler’s Paint gather on a…
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‘Dead Friend’ dramedy nearly all that it can be
Even for a film titled “My Dead Friend Zoe,” the opening scenes of Kyle…
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