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Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic / Getty Saturday Night Live Made a Mistake Hiring Shane Gillis
The news that the show had hired its first Chinese American cast member was quickly overshadowed by reports that another new hire had a history of racist remarks.
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Warner Bros. The Goldfinch Movie Adaptation Is Faithful to a Fault
John Crowley’s take on Donna Tartt’s hit 2013 novel sticks closely to its source material, but fails to capture what makes the story compelling.
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STX Entertainment / Everett Collection Jennifer Lopez Is Utterly Mesmerizing in Hustlers
Lorene Scafaria’s new film is a fabulous showbiz caper stuffed with great performances and elevated by an ingenious script.
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Lionsgate TIFF 2019: Nine Movies to Pay Attention to This Awards Season
First impressions of some of the festival’s buzziest films so far, including Knives Out, A Hidden Life, and Marriage Story
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NBC Saturday Night Live Loses One of Its Most Dynamic Stars
Leslie Jones’s departure comes just as the show enters a big election year, seemingly with few other cast shake-ups.
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Warner Bros. What to Expect at 2019’s Toronto International Film Festival
Oscar season is now under way, and TIFF will be a proving ground for highly anticipated movies such as Joker, Knives Out, and Harriet.
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Warner Bros. It Chapter Two Is a Blockbuster Horror Epic
The follow-up to 2017’s adaptation of Stephen King’s demented opus plays like a superhero movie—for better or for worse.
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Netflix American Factory Grapples With the Notion of Freedom
The Netflix documentary charts the economic and social issues that converge when the Chinese company Fuyao moves into a former General Motors plant in Ohio.
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Netflix Why Big Movie Chains Won’t Show Martin Scorsese’s Netflix Epic
Major companies such as AMC and Regal Theatres reportedly aren’t screening The Irishman, continuing a standoff with the streaming-service behemoth.
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Fox Searchlight Ready or Not Is a Clever Horror Comedy About Entitled Rich People
The new film retells a classic story of bored aristocrats hunting humans—with a subversive twist.
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Warner Bros. The Matrix 4 Could Be Just What Hollywood Needs
After years of rumored remakes and reboots, the cult sci-fi series will return with a fourth installment to be directed by Lana Wachowski.
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CBS All Access Why Viacom and CBS Had to Merge to Survive
The two companies have united their broadcasting properties to battle with their rivals.
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Annapurna Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette Is a Gripping Mess
The film isn’t so much a mystery thriller as it is an imperfect drama about a woman mired in a creative crisis.
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Warner Bros. A Movie About Falling in Love With Bruce Springsteen
Blinded by the Light is the earnest, exuberant story of a British Pakistani boy who finds inspiration in the American icon.
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Universal How The Hunt Became a Political Rorschach Test
After a series of tweets from President Trump, Universal canceled the release of a film that’s been alternately praised and decried by critics who haven’t seen it.
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Universal Good Boys Goes Beyond the Dirty Jokes
Gene Stupnitsky’s new film, which follows three middle schoolers bumbling their way through a crazy night, balances raunchy humor with insight.
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Warner Bros. The Kitchen Is an Amoral, Atonal Mess of a Movie
Not even Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss can salvage this confusing attempt at a gangster film.
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Disney / Hollywood Pictures How The Sixth Sense Conquered Hollywood in 1999
M. Night Shyamalan’s ghost story was an unlikely box-office success 20 years ago—but a movie like it could happen again today.
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NEON A Flawed Thriller About the Myth of the ‘Model Immigrant’
Luce follows a high-school student and refugee who writes an essay that terrifies his teacher.
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IFC The Nightingale Is a Harrowing but Worthy Watch
Jennifer Kent’s latest film is an intriguing follow-up to The Babadook—a powerful tale of revenge, and a period piece unsoftened by genre trappings.
