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Movie Review: J.Lo’s very wacky, very wild, very J.Lo journey to love in ‘This Is Me … Now’
OK, so maybe we’re not tracking her jet travel online like amateur spies. But let’s not forget that another force of nature, J.Lo, has been the ultimate celebrity for decades.
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Movie Review: Dakota Johnson is fun enough, but ‘Madame Web’ is repetitive and messy
“Madame Web” is striving to be a classic superhero setup movie, about how the future Madame Web comes to terms with her newfound power that allows her to see the future.
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Review: ‘Bob Marley: One Love’ doesn’t stir
“Bob Marley: One Love” is a noble but uninspired attempt to capture some of the essence of a monumental musical force.
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Movie Review: Food, glorious food (and other pleasures) in ‘The Taste of Things’
Director and screenwriter Trần Anh Hùng’s “The Taste of Things” is, first and foremost, about food. The side dish is the relationship between a 19th century chef, Dodin-Bouffant (Benoît Magimel) and his cook Eugénie (Juliette Binoche).
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Movie Review: ‘Lisa Frankenstein’ lurches from idiocy to whimsy and ends up unwatchable
It may come as no surprise that the new movie “Lisa Frankenstein” is a real monster. Associated Press critic Mar Kennedy says it is stitched together from previous movies, painfully incoherent and deeply, deeply dumb.
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Movie Review: A village in Bhutan learns about democracy and teaches us, too, in ‘Monk and the Gun’
His first film, “Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom,” garnered an Oscar nod. Now writer-director Pawo Choyning Dorji is back with a tale about democracy and its perils.
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Movie Review: Wim Wenders’ ‘Perfect Days’ is sublime
Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” is set among the crowded skyscrapers of Tokyo and the quiet urban parks that Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) traverses daily in his job cleaning public toilets.
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Movie Review: ‘Argylle’ won’t blow your socks off
Criss-crossing patterns of ridiculousness and self-satisfaction run through “Argylle,” a tiresome meta movie that puts an awful lot of zest into an awfully empty high-concept story, writes AP Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review.
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Movie Review: ‘Orion and the Dark’ loses itself in the leap from children’s book to animated film
To say the hero of Netflix’s new animated movie “Orion and the Dark” is fearful is an understatement.
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Movie Review: In ‘How to Have Sex,’ the party suddenly stops being fun
Molly Manning Walker makes her directorial debut with “How to Have Sex,” a cheekily titled film about three British teens on a booze-fueled holiday trip in Greece.
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Movie Review: ‘Tótem’ is a masterful child’s-eye view of family and death
The year is young but you’re unlikely to see a film as richly textured as Avilés’ masterful child’s-eye view of death and family.
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Movie Review: ‘Miller’s Girl’ with Jenna Ortega is an airless, cold affair that fails to spark
Jenna Ortega’s stark rise as Gen Z’s goth-glam princess takes a pointless, ugly turn in “Miller’s Girl,” a new romantic horror movie about cerebral people that’s simply tiresome, says AP critic Mark Kennedy.
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Movie Review: In ‘I.S.S.,’ war on Earth disrupts life aboard the International Space Station
After decades when fears of mutual destruction and nuclear fallout filtered into movies from “Fail Safe” to “WarGames,” anxiety over current Russian-American geopolitics plays a provocative role in the new space thriller “I.S.S.” writes AP Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review.
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Movie Review: Ava DuVernay’s ‘Origin’ is a powerful, artful, interpretation of ‘Caste’
Ava DuVernay adapts Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 book “Caste” into a narrative, investigative drama in the new film “Origin.”
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Review: In the bonkers ‘The Beekeeper,’ Jason Statham has more than a bee in his bonnet
If you’ve been searching for a movie where Jason Statham gravely vows to “protect the hive” an implausible number of times, you have found it.
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Movie Review: Still trying to make ‘fetch’ happen, now in song: ‘Mean Girls’ gets a musical update
Two decades later, Gretchen’s still trying to make “fetch” happen. Tina Fey’s “Mean Girls” is back, this time as a musical.
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Movie Review: Daniel Kaluuya builds a compelling near-future dystopia in ‘The Kitchen’
The near-future is bleak for the working class of London in “The Kitchen,” about a familiar kind of urban dystopian nightmare.
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Movie Review: Audacious Bible-era story ‘The Book of Clarence’ is maybe too audacious
Somewhere between the sacred and profane, comedy drama and satire comes “The Book of Clarence,” a retelling of The Greatest Story Ever Told that arrives in theaters appropriately between Christmas and Easter.
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Movie Review: In ‘The Teachers’ Lounge,’ one middle school as microcosm of a troubled world
Who’s stealing from the teachers’ lounge? When a series of thefts plague a middle school and officials aggressively question her sixth-grade students, idealistic new teacher Carla Nowak is determined to unmask the real thief.
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Movie Review: Anthony Hopkins shines in ‘Freud’s Last Session’
“Freud’s Last Session” adds to a string of sterling late-chapter performances by the 86-year-old actor.
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Movie Review: Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard anchor ‘Memory,’ a thorny drama with a tender heart
Pain and trauma permeate Michel Franco’s new drama “Memory,” about two lost souls who find surprising comfort in one another.
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Movie Review: Clooney’s ‘Boys in the Boat’ is an underdog saga that’s both stirring and a tad stodgy
Director George Clooney both begins and ends “The Boys in the Boat” on a sun-dappled lake. It’s a seductive sight, and aptly reflects the ethos of a film that feels like one has walked straight into an oil painting.
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Movie Review: ‘The Color Purple’ is a stirring big-screen musical powered by its spectacular cast
Exuberant performances from a cast led by Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson and Danielle Brooks breathe life into Blitz Bazawule’s stirring “The Color Purple,” adapted from the Tony-winning Broadway production, AP Film Writer Jake Coyle writes in his review.
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Movie Review: If this is goodbye, ‘Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ keeps its trident high
It’s perhaps appropriate that the latest Aquaman movie is about a lost kingdom. In many ways, this mini-franchise is just that, a Jason Momoa kingdom that could just quietly sink below the cinematic waves.
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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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