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Published on April 4, 2025 - Page 7
It’s difficult to relate to ‘Freaky Stories’
Writer-director Ryan Fleck, with partner Anna Boden, has produced a "very weird" love letter to his former home of Oakland in "Freaky Tales." What's...
Published on March 21, 2025 - Page 8
Even more De Niros can’t elevate ‘The Alto Knights’
"You're the actor!" shouts Anna Genovese at her estranged spouse, gangster Vito Genovese, in a courtroom where he's implausibly claiming he lacks...
Published on March 7, 2025 - Page 8
Inspiration eventually dies out in ‘Mickey 17’
However crummy you think your 9-5 job is, it'll never be as bad as Robert Pattinson's in Bong Joon Ho's "Mickey 17." Mickey is an "expendable." His...
Published on February 21, 2025 - Page 8
‘Monkey’ winds up scares, fumbles tone
It's not a toy. Whatever you do, do NOT call it a toy. That's the chilling message from the spooked airline pilot (Adam Scott) who arrives at a pawn...
Published on February 14, 2025 - Page 8
We’re still ‘Mad About’ our messy ‘Bridget Jones’
It is a truth universally acknowledged, as Bridget Jones herself might write in her diary, that at the end of any "Bridget Jones" movie, our heroine...
Published on February 9, 2025 - Page 5
Academy Museum display focuses on color
LOS ANGELES -- In the hit movie "Wicked," those famous magical shoes are silver. But if you want to see them in all their ruby-red glory from "The...
Published on January 31, 2025 - Page 8
‘Companion’ has humor, but lacks intelligence
"Iris, wake up!" Early in "Companion," lovely Iris and her nerdy-nice boyfriend Josh are driving to a secluded lake house for a stay with friends....
Published on January 31, 2025 - Page 18
Wildfires may spur interest in ‘21 documentary
NEW YORK -- When Lucy Walker debuted her harrowing documentary about California wildfires, "Bring Your Own Brigade," at Sundance in 2021, it was...
Published on January 17, 2025 - Page 8
‘Action’ far from a comedy coup
Former secret agent Matt (Jamie Foxx) explains he and wife Emily are living a boring, mundane, glamour-free life and nobody would ever be looking for...
Published on January 10, 2025 - Page 7
‘Better Man’ one of pop star’s best efforts
"I came out of the womb with jazz hands," pop star Robbie Williams recounts in "Better Man," his new biopic. "Which was very painful for my mum."...

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Published on March 21, 2025 - Page 8
Even more De Niros can’t elevate ‘The Alto Knights’
"You're the actor!" shouts Anna Genovese at her estranged spouse, gangster Vito Genovese, in a courtroom where he's implausibly claiming he lacks...
Published on April 4, 2025 - Page 7
It’s difficult to relate to ‘Freaky Stories’
Writer-director Ryan Fleck, with partner Anna Boden, has produced a "very weird" love letter to his former home of Oakland in "Freaky Tales." What's...