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Warner Bros. Clint Eastwood Plays a Different Sort of Cowboy in The Mule
In his new film, the 88-year-old director plays a lonely man working as a drug courier. But the movie has fascinating parallels to the star’s own life.
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Annapurna If Beale Street Could Talk Is a Seismic Cinematic Achievement
Barry Jenkins’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning Moonlight beautifully and painfully captures the many contradictions of James Baldwin’s novel.
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Sony If Only Superhero Movies Were More Like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
The animated film, which features an impressive ensemble, is exuberant and inventive in a way that many big-screen comic-book projects forget to be.
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Tatum Mangus / Annapurna Pictures / The Atlantic How Barry Jenkins Turned His James Baldwin Obsession Into His Next Movie
The If Beale Street Could Talk director discusses why his new film was harder to make than Moonlight, how he brought 1970s Harlem to life, and what kind of “chemistry” he wants between his actors.
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Focus Features Where Mary Queen of Scots Goes Wrong
Starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie, the film reduces the arcane details of centuries-old diplomacy to a personal beef between two celebrities.
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Clay Enos / Warner Bros. Breaking Down the 2019 Golden Globe Nominations
Films such as A Star Is Born, Green Book, and Vice nabbed the most movie nods, while The Americans, Homecoming, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel ruled the TV slate.
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Warner Bros. Crazy Rich Asians Tanked in China—But That’s Okay
Despite the odds, the romantic comedy was already an enormous success in the United States, from a critical, commercial, and historical perspective.
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Larry Downing / Sygma via Getty Images Dana Carvey’s George H. W. Bush Was an All-Time Great SNL Impression
The comedian’s take on the late president might seem tame by today’s standards, but it seized on the little details to deliver incisive satire.
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Magnolia Pictures Shoplifters Is a Brilliant Dickensian Tale for a Modern Age
A triumph at Cannes earlier this year, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s film is a quietly devastating drama about a family living on the edges of Japanese society.
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Netflix It’s No Wonder Netflix’s Mowgli Took Forever to Be Released
Andy Serkis directs an all-star voice cast in a grittier take on the Jungle Book stories. But the film is bogged down by weak visuals and a bland story.
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Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images The Inimitable Creativity of Stephen Hillenburg
The animator behind SpongeBob SquarePants, who died this week at the age of 57, invented a cult oddity that also managed to become a global brand.
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MGM Creed II Crowns Hollywood’s Next Big Franchise
The sequel to Ryan Coogler’s Rocky spin-off had a spectacular opening weekend at the box office, which suggests a bright future for the series.
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Fox Searchlight The Favourite Is a Deliciously Nasty Satire of Royal-Court Intrigue
The director of The Lobster has made a film that’s right in his wheelhouse: a period dramedy set in a palace full of mean aristocrats vying for power.
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Disney Ralph Breaks the Internet Offers a Chillingly Accurate Vision of Modern Life
The Wreck-It Ralph sequel is a visually inventive and fittingly sober film about venturing into the World Wide Web.
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Paramount Addams Family Values Is a Darkly Funny Thanksgiving Classic
Twenty-five years after its release, Barry Sonnenfeld’s ghoulish sequel is a perfect celebration of family that also razzes the holiday’s core mythos.
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Warner Bros. J. K. Rowling and the Curse of the Prequel Series
With the new Fantastic Beasts movie, the Harry Potter author is making some inexplicable and unnecessary additions to her beloved wizarding universe.
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NBC Saturday Night Live’s Confusing Celebration of Jeff Bezos
Steve Carell played the Amazon CEO as an anti-Trump crusader in one of the show’s more baffling sketches.
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20th Century Fox Steve McQueen’s Widows Is the Smartest Blockbuster of the Year
The Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave director has made an intelligent, crowd-pleasing heist film with a powerhouse ensemble led by Viola Davis.
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Warner Bros. J.K. Rowling Enters George Lucas Mode With the New Fantastic Beasts Movie
The Harry Potter author is pouring a wealth of ideas about her wizarding world into a mold that doesn’t have the space for it.
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AP Stan Lee Was Synonymous With American Superhero Comics
The industry legend, who created beloved Marvel characters like the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man, died at the age of 95.
