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‘The Menu’ (2022) serves up weirdness, skimps on horror

“The Menu” (2022) has big ideas yet ultimately feels so much of a piece with other cool, high-concept modern films that it’s more a smoke-and-mirrors

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Leitch’s ‘Bullet Train’ (2022) barely stays on the rails

I gave positive reviews to director David Leitch’s “Deadpool 2” and “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw,” but they won me over with a

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‘Black Adam’ a goofily fun but hypocritical superhero romp

The line between video-game graphics and movie CGI is almost erased in “Black Adam” (HBO Max). It was ostensibly filmed in New Zealand, but I

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Craig’s Blanc joins a newly loaded cast for ‘Glass Onion’

With his James Bond run concluded, Daniel Craig has already solidified his next franchise by playing Benoit Blanc, the old-fashioned Southern detective who solved “Knives

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‘Violent Night’ isn’t always naughty, but it’s definitely bad

“Violent Night” is an ornament-laced wreath of unappealing faux-edgy bits of cinema. Every character other than Santa Claus (David Harbour) and sweet little Trudy (Leah

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‘A Christmas Story Christmas’ won’t be a classic like the original

“A Christmas Story Christmas” (HBO Max), the first “A Christmas Story” sequel to see Peter Billingsley return as Ralphie Parker, drops visual references to the

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‘Atlanta’ Seasons 3-4 are a surreal snapshot of 2022

Like reaching into a bag of Skittles, you won’t know what flavor you’re getting when you fire up one of the 20 episodes of “Atlanta”

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‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ a ripping critique of religion

As a rule of thumb, I figure religions are neutral forces. Good or evil people will use religion as an outlet for their ingrained good

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‘Beavis and Butt-head’ more smartly stupid than ever in Season 9

Stupidity knows no generational boundary, as “Beavis and Butt-head” proves with the 22 15-minute episodes and one half-hour episode that make up Season 9 (Paramount

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‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ manipulative but undeniably pretty

I knew from the opening minutes that “Where the Crawdads Sing” would try to manipulate me with its beautiful North Carolina marshlands, music and voiceover

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