‘Creed III’ doesn’t live up to the greatness that’s come before it, but it is able to stand alone with strong performances from the stellar cast.
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The ‘Children of the Corn’ remake derails from Stephen King’s original source and spurns religious zealotry for environmental lectures. Plus they show the monster. Now you don’t have to see it.
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‘Cocaine Bear’ is exactly the movie you want it to be. It’s funny. Crazy. Violent. And gory. Everything you need to know is in the title.
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A gory, funny, irreverent triviality that doesn’t overstay its welcome, Cocaine Bear delivers on its eponymous promise (and little else).
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‘Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania’ lacks the heart and soul that made us fall in love with Ant-Man and just isn’t the storytelling boost the MCU needed right now after some misfires from some of its big guns over the past year or so.
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For what he hopes will be one last hurrah, a former male stripper heads to London with a wealthy socialite who lures him with an offer he can’t refuse…and an agenda all her own.
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‘Consecration’ is a grab-bag of horror tropes and cinematic parlor tricks that amuses for a time, yet ultimately stumbles.
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‘Knock at the Cabin’ is a middle-of-the-pack M. Night film with a solid cast and a stellar set up but fails to sink its teeth into its own questions.
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A story about the holding patterns people put themselves in while waiting for life to happen to them, “Living” is Bill Nighy at his best.
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Five pounds of movie stuffed in a 10-pound bag, “Alice, Darling” is less a story and more a snapshot: teasing the profound while never quite arriving there.
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Not nearly fun enough to exist as pure escapism, and far too ridiculous to take at face value, ‘Plane’ is a vessel without a (air)port.
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Too long and with no idea how to put a bow on all of this, ‘Babylon’ fizzles out with the same tragic whimper that characterizes its doomed characters.
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Cameron’s complete mastery of the action form combined with his virtual reinvention of the mo-cap format puts ‘The Way of Water’ on a whole other level.
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A heartbreaking love story for the holidays.
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This take on ‘Pinocchio’ is both entertaining and insightful, and presents the story in a visual format that is ideally suited for this telling.
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