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Friday, December 08, 2023
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Friday, December 08, 2023
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'Dream Scenario' is the perfect Nicolas Cage movie, says Nicolas Cage
On the surface, it wouldn't seem as though beloved, mega-famous superstar Nicolas Cage has anything in common with Paul Matthews, his character in A24's horror-comedy "D...
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The Holdovers
This is one of my favorite movies of the year. It’s witty and caustic at times but warmhearted at its core, with an abiding affection for the worl...
When Asha, a vibrant 17-year-old dreamer, discovers the dark truth about her beloved hometown, she's a bit torn.
So, following in the footsteps of a long line of Disney c...
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Dark Ride
Lou Berney
Eternally rocking in the arms of his bong, amusement park worker Hardy “Hardly” Reed is shocked when he randomly observes two kids sitting o...
When “Rustin,” a film about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin told with clarity and conviction, premiered a few weeks ago at the Telluride Film Festival, it received an...
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When actor Ethan Hawke lived briefly in Atlanta, Ga., as a child in the late 1970s, he recalled his mother embracing the Georgia gothic author Flannery O’Connor, who died...
Alexander Payne brings audiences to a New England boarding school in 1970 in “The Holdovers,” a textured, nostalgic and often funny piece about three lonely and mismatche...
The new Netflix movie “Old Dads” has a title problem. It really should be called “Old Dads Yelling at Clouds” or “Old Dads Raging at QR Codes.” It’s designed for people w...
In her 25 years of making films, Sofia Coppola has always found the poetry behind the headlines, the banality in the glamour, the soul in the superficial. Her dreamy, lyr...
Karen Allen is best known as an actress, of course. She played Marion Ravenwood in several Indiana Jones movies, and she co-starred in such films as “Starman” and “Scroog...
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A film crew shot scenes for a documentary for Netflix in The Day’s newsroom Thursday.
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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
Netflix
When I watched this, I had to really think whether or not I’ve even been in an Uber, but that’s kind of the point. Pe...
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Dumb Money
There’s nothing better than seeing a David take on a Goliath and win. The little guys here are individual, small-potatoes investors who went all-in o...
The Mystic Film Festival returns this week, running tonight through Sunday with an entertainingly wide range of movies — 73 short and feature-length documentary and narr...
If you haven't already heard of Shah Rukh Khan — First, where have you been? Second, why?! — it's beyond time to get to know the Bollywood megastar.
When he isn't dominat...
It’s such a shame that Taylor Swift doesn’t get more attention.
I kid! Swift is everywhere these days — including at football games. (We see you, Travis Kelce.)
You surel...
It’s tricky enough in today’s IP-obsessed Hollywood to market an ambitious original science-fiction film. Throw in a historic strike and it becomes a whole lot harder.
Fo...
Bayard Rustin mentored the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was imprisoned as a conscientious objector during World War II, lived a relatively open gay life in midcentury Ame...
The Garde Arts Center was a movie palace at one time, so maybe it’s karma that some of its most popular annual events are film-related. There is the winter movie series, ...
Nia DaCosta, director of the upcoming “The Marvels,” has a diagnosis for the recent struggles of superhero movies. It basically comes down to, she says, “Mo’ money, mo’ p...
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