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‘Coming 2 America’ has more enthusiasm than inspiration

Thirty-three years after “Coming to America,” Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Shari Headley and nonagenarian James Earl Jones still look great. But writers Barry W. Blaustein

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Nora, Corrie amusingly team up again in ‘Scorpion’s Tail’

Corrie Swanson and Nora Kelly, our two favorite women from the Preston-Childverse (with apologies to Constance Greene) return for their second combined adventure, “The Scorpion’s

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‘Clarice’ explores heroine after ‘Silence of the Lambs’

Adding both cachet and pressure, “Clarice” (Thursdays, CBS) has the weight of “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991) behind it as it chronicles Special Agent

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Vaughn, Newton are great, but ‘Freaky’ is rather basic

“Freaky” has slasher-flick moments and it has comedic moments, but never at the same time, leading to a patchwork hybrid that always feels like a

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‘Love and Monsters’ keeps apocalypse upbeat

“Love and Monsters’ ” cast and crew are filled with people who have done apocalypses before, so perhaps having gotten the doom and gloom out

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Trio, twist are big things that drive ‘Little Things’

“The Little Things” (January, HBO Max) might be the first film to benefit from the two-month qualifying extension for the Oscars – unless it’s too

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‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ loses magic in Part 4

I gave decent marks to the previous seasons (which this series calls “parts”) of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” but in retrospect it was because I imagined

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‘Firefly: Watch How I Soar’ a flighty nod to Wash

A decade ago, Dark Horse gave us the previously secret backstory of Book in one volume, “The Shepherd’s Tale.” Now we get a similarly classy

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Evan Rachel Wood’s ‘Kajillionaire’ is (way) offbeat

Writer-director Miranda July’s “Kajillionaire” (2020) exists a half-step away from reality, always unapologetically weird but at the same time heartrendingly true. It’s a more delicate

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‘Cobra Kai’ Season 3 balances fan service, sharp writing

“Cobra Kai,” which recently dropped its 10-episode third season on Netflix (after two years on YouTube Premium), has come along at a perfect cultural intersection

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