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Movie Review: A transformed Zac Efron gives his all in tragic, true-life wrestling tale ‘Iron Claw’
Zac Efron turns in career-best work as Texas wrestling brother Kevin Von Erich in “The Iron Claw,” a role for which the actor transformed his body into a taut mass of muscle and sinew.
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Movie Review: Ghosts and longing and love in ‘All of Us Strangers’
Andrew Scott plays a writer trying to write something about his dead parents in Andrew Haigh’s drama “All of Us Strangers.”
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Movie Review: A helicopter father flies his duck family south in ‘Migration’
Illumination’s “Migration” is vividly animated with warm cartoon tones that would do Daffy proud. But it never quite spreads its wings, writes AP Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review.
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Movie Review: Auto pioneer Enzo Ferrari gets a solid biopic but it doesn’t make the heart race
Napoleon Bonaparte. Leonard Bernstein. Willy Wonka. Aquaman — there are a ton of Guy Movie Heroes out there as 2023 ends. And yet up zooms another — in “Ferrari.”
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Movie Review: In harrowing ‘Zone of Interest,’ the Holocaust’s evils are cloaked in mundanities
In his meticulous and harrowing Holocaust film “The Zone of Interest,” writer-director Jonathan Glazer has found a way to convey evil without ever depicting the horror itself.
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Movie Review: Jeffrey Wright is brilliant in the smart and funny satire ‘American Fiction’
Jeffrey Wright’s Thelonious “Monk” Ellison is a classic frustrated artist in “American Fiction.” He is a professor and an author who writes literary stories.
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Review: Timothée Chalamet waltzes through the whimsical ‘Wonka’ but Roald Dahl’s daring is missing
“Wonka,” starring Timothée Chalamet, has two things going for it: the dazzling designs of “Paddington 2” director Paul King and the charisma of its leading man.
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Movie Review: In ‘Poor Things,’ Emma Stone takes an unusual path to enlightenment
Emma Stone plays a re-animated Victorian woman in “Poor Things,” the latest demented confection from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos.
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Review: Swan song or not, Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’ is a master surveying his empire
Watching Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron” is like returning to a faintly familiar dreamland.
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Movie Review: ‘Leave the World Behind’ is a terrific blend of thriller, disaster and satire
If you like your thrillers to have an apocalyptic backdrop look no further than Netflix’s “Leave the World Behind,” says Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy.
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Review: In concert film ‘Renaissance,’ Beyoncé offers glimpse into personal life during world tour
Beyoncé ran her Renaissance World Tour like a machine. But the superstar singer who is viewed as one of music’s hardest-working performers confesses she’s “not a machine.”
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Movie Review: ‘Eileen,’ a wonderful novel about an ‘invisible’ young lady becomes an oddball film
Something strange has happened to Eileen Dunlop, and we don’t just mean the plot of “Eileen.” The adaptation of novelist Ottessa Moshfegh’s delicious coming-of-age heroine has had a weird birth onto film, says Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy.
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Review: Bradley Cooper’s ‘Maestro’ leaves many notes of Bernstein unplayed
Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro,” a high-wire act of a biopic, leaps constantly between on stage and off, flying through Leonard Bernstein’s very public life as a conductor while diving into his more private marriage to Felicia Montealegre.
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Movie Review: Emerald Fennell chronicles a promising young man in audacious, shock-filled ‘Saltburn’
Anticipation has been hot for Emerald Fennell’s second feature ever since her bracingly original “Promising Young Woman” won a screenplay Oscar.
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Movie Review: Disney’s musical fairy tale ‘Wish’ is beautiful, but lacking magic
Chris Pine voices King Magnifico, the ruler of the Kingdom of Rosas who has the ability to grant wishes to his subjects in “Wish,” the new Disney Animation musical in theaters Tuesday.
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Movie Review: ‘Fallen Leaves’ is deadpan nirvana
In a movie year rife with grand, three-hour opuses from auteur filmmakers comes a slender 81-minute gem that outclasses them all.
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Review: In Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon,’ the emperor has no clothes but plenty of ego
This Napoleon, as played by Joaquin Phoenix, isn’t extraordinary nor is he much of a man.
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Movie Review: Emotional complexity, melodramatic wit and masterful acting in ‘May December’
Natalie Portman plays an actress researching a real-life subject for a role in Todd Haynes’ “May December.”
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Movie Review: Taika Waititi’s ‘Next Goal Wins’ is a sweet, frothy diversion but no knee slide
In “Next Goal Wins,” a soccer coach comes from far away to lead a hapless group of athletes. He’s a fish-out-of-water type, ill-suited for the job, but rises to the occasion and everyone feels good at the end.
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Review: The Hunger Games return in ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,’ with the odds in its favor
Two hours and 37 minutes is pretty long for a “ballad,” but you can’t call it “The Hunger Games: The Three-Cycle Opera of Songbirds and Snakes” now, can you?
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Movie Review: Nicolas Cage finds fame to be highly overrated in chillingly funny ‘Dream Scenario’
Nicolas Cage, perhaps best known for his onscreen volatility, takes a fascinating swerve to play a mundane, schlubby, balding professor at nowhere famous in Kristoffer Borgli’s “Dream Scenario.”
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Movie Review: Iman Vellani is a scene-stealer in low-stakes ‘The Marvels’
Nia DaCosta joins the Marvel Universe with “The Marvels,” sequel to 2019’s “Captain Marvel,” starring Brie Larson, Iman Vellani and Teyonah Parris.
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Movie Review: In David Fincher’s ‘The Killer,’ an assassin hides in plain sight
“The Killer” is a terse, minimalist thriller in the cool, cold-hearted tradition of Jean Pierre Melville’s “Le Samouraï.”
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Movie Review: In ‘Radical,’ an unorthodox teacher in a violent Mexican border town
“Radical” is a conventional but stirring entry in the crowded canon of uplifting educator tales like “Stand and Deliver,” “Lean on Me” and “The Class.”
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Movie Review: A serene debut from Raven Jackson in ‘All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt’
Nature provides much of the soundtrack to “All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt,” the debut feature from writer-director Raven Jackson.
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Movie Review: ‘Rustin’ with an outstanding Colman Domingo is a terrific look at March on Washington
The 1963 March on Washington was a triumph of peaceful protest. It likely wouldn’t have happened without the work of a master strategist: Bayard Rustin, a gay Black socialist and pacifist-activist.
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Movie Review: ‘Pain Hustlers’ tells a sadly familiar story with a kitchen-sink style
“Pain Hustlers” tells a tale both familiar and tragic, the latest in a string of films about the opioid crisis.
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Movie Review: Video game-to-horror flick ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ misfires badly
Just in time for Halloween comes “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” a video game adaptation with the potential treat of demented Chuck E.
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Movie Review: Teen dreams and adult nightmares in Sofia Coppola’s ‘Priscilla’
Dreamily gazing at the album covers of Elvis Presley was not, statistically speaking, a rare habit among American teen girls in the late 1950s and early ’60s.
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Movie Review: ‘Persian Version’ finds laughter, tears in Iranian American tale of resilient women
In the autobiographical “The Persian Version,” Maryam Keshavarz chronicles a young woman’s struggle to reconcile two identities: her Iranian heritage and her current American life as an aspiring filmmaker who longs to be an Iranian Martin Scorsese.
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Movie Review: A holiday movie with some bite in Alexander Payne’s ‘The Holdovers’
“Sideways” filmmaker Alexander Payne brings audiences to a New England boarding school in 1970 in “The Holdovers,” about three lonely and mismatched souls stuck together over Christmas break.
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Movie Review: Netflix’s ‘Old Dads’ is a recycling of PC grievances and a Bill Burr career nadir
The new Netflix movie “Old Dads” has a title problem, says Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy. He says it really should be called “Old Dads Raging at Paper Straws.”
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Movie Review: In ‘Nyad,’ Jodie Foster swims away with a showcase for Annette Bening
In “Nyad,” there are two feats of perseverance on display. First, there is the ceaseless determination of Diana Nyad, played by Annette Bening, to accomplish a marathon swim from Cuba to Florida across 110 miles of open, shark-infested waters.
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Movie Review: Cornwell/le Carré, through Errol Morris’ lens, in riveting ‘The Pigeon Tunnel’
David Cornwell, better known by his pen name John le Carré, was the spy-turned-novelist whose erudite tales of espionage and betrayal defined an era, gave literary heft to a genre and inspired numerous adaptations.
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Movie Review: Scorsese’s epic ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is sweeping tale of greed, richly told
There tends to be lots of fast talking and fast moving in Martin Scorsese films. But in his elegant, masterfully told “Killers of the Flower Moon,” everything seems to slow down, especially when the camera lands on Lily Gladstone.
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Movie Review: In the elated ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,’ every seat is the best seat in the house
The hypnotic “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” film is a near exact replica of her blockbuster concert performance, which recaps all 10 of her studio albums across 17 years of recorded work.
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Movie Review: In ‘Anatomy of a Fall,’ a sharp courtroom drama that will end relationships
Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or-winning film “Anatomy of a Fall” finds a writer on trial for the suspicious death of her husband.
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Movie Review: In ‘Fair Play,’ a battle of the sexes on Wall Street
Since its hit arrival at the Sundance Film Festival, “Fair Play” has been hailed for reviving the long-dormant-but-often-missed erotic thriller.
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Movie Review: Jamie Foxx leads a crowd-pleasing courtroom drama in ‘The Burial’
Jamie Foxx plays a slick personal injury lawyer who finds himself in over his head when he’s recruited for a contract case in “The Burial.”
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Movie Review: ‘The Exorcist: Believer’ doesn’t desecrate the original but it won’t compel you
There may be no holier ground in horror than “The Exorcist.” As endlessly as William Friedkin’s 1973 film has been ripped off and resurrected, its power remains unalloyed.
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Movie Review: Check out ‘The Royal Hotel’ but don’t linger in this subtle horror flick
“The Royal Hotel” is a horror movie but don’t expect any jump-cuts, scary masks or serial killers. It’s more like the dawning horror a frog gets when it realizes it is being boiled alive.
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Movie Review: Her voice is lower, but Joan Baez has songs to sing and secrets to tell in new doc
Joan Baez was once a teenager with a guitar around her neck singing “We Shall Overcome.” She was singing about civil rights of course, but we learn in the new documentary “Joan Baez: I Am a Noise” just how much the celebrated folk singer needed to overcome in her own life: anxiety, depression, lonel
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Movie Review: Humans take a back seat in the stunning AI, sci-fi epic ‘The Creator’
Director and co-writer Gareth Edwards takes on Artificial Intelligence in the new film “The Creator,” releasing in theaters nationswide Friday.
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Movie Review: Documentary ‘Carlos’ is a loving, respectful portrait of guitar god Santana
The documentary “Carlos” is a traditional linear tale, tracing rock icon Carlos Santana’s formative years in Tijuana, Mexico, his set at Woodstock, his dive into spirituality and his triumphant 1999 “Supernatural” album.
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Movie Review: St4llone, St4tham are back in ‘Expend4bles,’ yet another expend4ble sequel
Maybe this was supposed to be the clever new thing about the fourth “Expendables” movie — the title has the number “4” embedded in the word. Nice try, guys.
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Movie review: A star-making turn for Eve Hewson in the feel-good ‘Flora and Son’
John Carney, the Irish filmmaker of “Once,” “Sing Street” and “Begin Again,” makes the movie version of “three chords and the truth.”
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Movie Review: An immigrant teen who wants to fit in enters a nightmare in ‘It Lives Inside’
A beautiful Indian American teen, Samidha (Megan Suri), just wants to fit in with her suburban classmates in the new horror “It Lives Inside,” which opens in theaters Friday.
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Movie Review: ‘Dumb Money’ recalls GameStop squeeze, when regular folk put the screws on Wall Street
The little guy — or at least the little guy with a few hundred bucks to sink into the stock market — gets a movie to cheer with “Dumb Money,” the real story of a recent financial rebellion that shook Wall Street.
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Movie Review: A charming Haley Lu Richardson anchors sappy but sweet rom-com ‘Love at First Sight’
She’s American, charming, chronically late, and her phone is always running out of juice. He’s British, prompt, has a fully charged phone and spouts statistics.
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Movie Review: ‘Cassandro,’ with Gael Garcia Bernal as a liberated luchador, is a winner
Anyone who has eagerly followed Gael Garcia Bernal since his breakthrough roles in “Amores Perros” and “Y tu mamá también” likely never foresaw him one day in the world of lucha libra wrestling.
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