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If the kids drag you to ‘The Lion King’ this weekend, at least see it in IMAX.

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Garth Davis’ ‘Mary Magdalene’ is historically accurate and respectful, but great performances by Joaquin Phoenix and Tahar Rahim can’t save it from being boring.

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Currently playing at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, Half of a Yellow Sun is a hard, emotional, bloody, yet ultimately worthwhile look at an African independence movement through the eyes of people who, fifty years later, still seem entirely familiar.

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Through a rich, grueling portrait of the machinery of institutionalized slavery, Steve McQueen asks us to examine the rotten core of slavery and how it permeates our entire culture, not just to ponder life as it was in the 1840s.

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