Inspired by true events, “Green Book” gets its name from “The Negro Motorist Green Book,” a mid-20th-century guidebook with a state-by-state listing of gas stations, restaurants and motels that would serve black travelers. “The Green Book” comes into play here because the year is 1962,
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There’s a Bermuda Triangle of sorts that sits at the center of “Wildlife,” an absorbing yet off-kilter domestic drama from first-time filmmaker Paul Dano, the actor-turned-director who, with actress and significant other Zoe Kazan, has adapted Richard Ford’s disturbing 1990 novel of a family unraveling. In
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Every generation gets the Robin Hood it deserves, and the 2018 “Robin Hood” is sleek, modern and retrofitted for a radical political landscape. Take in that Shepard Fairey-inspired wanted poster, the woodcut-style closing credits sequence rendered in Constructivist shades of red and black, our masked,
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Surprisingly dark, with a shocking reveal at the end
“Bunty, the baby nifflers are loose again.” And with that, the hero of “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” signals to his housekeeper that this new chapter in the adventures of magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne, as mumbly and bumbly as ever) will have at
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We all feel a little grinchy sometimes. When holiday cheer becomes particularly oppressive, when we feel lonely in a crowd, when we would rather rain on someone’s parade than admit defeat, Dr. Seuss gave us a way to describe that feeling with his classic holiday
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At the center of the long-gestating Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” is the kind of performance that’s less acting than it is the channeling of a spirit from another realm. Rami Malek takes to the role of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury with a studious intensity, making
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An electric and shatteringly powerful showbiz fable
Every once in a great while, you experience a movie moment so beautiful and so exhilarating, it truly does take your breath away and maybe brings a tear to your eye. In Bradley Cooper’s electric and shatteringly powerful “A Star Is Born,” such a moment
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