The Smurl family home in “The Conjuring: Last Rites” includes peeling wallpaper in the stairwell, an accidental metaphor for the way the film uses top-shelf
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The first two “Conjuring” films ranked in my top 10s in 2013 and 2016. Despite a bevy of spinoff films in the interim, expectations were
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“Aquaman” (2018) is an artistic feast, with its underwater city of Atlantis, its bevy of sea creatures and the way the ocean peoples’ hair flows