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Tuesday, October 08, 2024
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Tuesday, October 08, 2024
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Native sports drama ‘Rez Ball’ follows formula but wins out with heart and poignancy
A scrappy young team of underdogs — in both sports and life — must find a way to unite and win that big championship. Can they do it? How many times have we seen that sto...
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The Manhattan Short Film Festival has this motto: “One world — one week — one festival.”
That certainly sums it up.
This fest, now marking its 27th year, brings its compi...
LONDON (AP) — Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 and gained new fans in the 21st century as th...
The overriding tension in “Wolfs,” starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt as rival fixers brought in to clean up the same crime, isn’t so much the threat of police arrest ...
This summer, some freshly minted East Lyme High School graduates were celebrating their last summer together before heading off to college.
Also in East Lyme: a group of ...
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The Mystic Film Festival returns — for its seventh year — with more than 95 movies being screened.
There are short and feature-length productions, in both narrative and d...
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”? Disappointing disappointing. I so wanted to love this very belated sequel to the 1988 film, which melded horr...
“Rebel Ridge” opens with a shot of a lanky, muscular stranger riding into a small, corrupt Southern town — a scene we've all seen plenty of times. Except this stranger is...
When the Irish actor Gabriel Byrne was first approached to play the role of Samuel Beckett, one of Ireland’s greatest literary heroes, he hesitated.
“I wrestled with the ...
In Nathan Silver’s divinely disordered screwball “Between the Temples,” Jason Schwartzman plays a grieving canter who, after the death of his wife, can’t sing anymore but...
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“The Union,” an action comedy with Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry, should have been more fun. Or more exciting. It certainly had a lot working in its favor, including big ...
God, what I wouldn’t give to see Joan Crawford and Bette Davis in “Mothers’ Instinct,” the pallid suspense thriller that skipped through theaters like a stone on its way ...
Paul Feig has never been a filmmaker with much patience for repetition. Rather than capture a slew of similar takes, the 61-year-old director likes to find moments in his...
“Sing Sing,” a genuinely moving highlight of 2024, makes most of the other dramas we’ve seen this year look like phonies. It has a few elements, a few moments, that edge ...
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Day One
Abigail Dean
With the disconcerting reality that, in America, mass shootings are as rote as the lyrics to “Happy Birthday to You,” it’s understandable to...
Let’s get one thing out of the way first: I did not entirely understand everything that happens in “Cuckoo,” a new indie horror in theaters now.
This could be more of a m...
Coming of age films are nothing new. We’ve seen the awkwardness, the raucous, lewd humor and the emotional complexity that accompanies teen years on screen before, but fi...
When director Rich Peppiatt first approached the three members of Kneecap, a Belfast hip-hip trio that raps in the Irish language, they weren’t sure what to make of his c...
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Deadpool & Wolverine
And the award for best comedy of the summer goes to … “Deadpool & Wolverine”! I’m not a big fan of superhero flicks, but the “Deadpool” ser...
From “Beaches” to “First Wives Club” and “Hocus Pocus,” Bette Midler has starred in a number of projects where women aren’t just at the center of the story — but also fe...
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