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Andrew Garfield in tick, tick... BOOM!

tick, tick . . . BOOM! tells the story of Rent composer Jonathan Larson

tick, tick, . . . BOOM! looks at Broadway composer Jonathan Larson as he struggled to get his career started. He was turning 30 and hadn’t had a success yet. He thought his time was running out. This film looks […]

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Emma Stone in Poor Things

Poor Things: Another wild adventure with Yorgos Lanthimos

Poor Things is streaming on Hulu now, which means you can check one more Oscar hopeful off your list of things to see. Yorgos Lanthimos directed this one. It is bizarre, bonkers, beautiful, and brilliant. Emma Stone stars as Bella

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Virginie Efira in Revoir Paris

Revoir Paris review, in which Virginie Efira defines memory recovery

Revoir Paris from writer and director Alice Winocour, is about a woman who is traumatized in a mass shooting in a Paris bistro. She survives, one of the few who did, but blanked out the memory of what happened. She

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Paul Giamatti in The Holdovers

The Holdovers review, heartwarming and humorous

The Holdovers has earned nominations for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress for Da’Vine Joy Randolph this year. It’s a heartwarming story set in a boys’ boarding school over the Christmas holidays. The boys who can’t go home for the

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Tuva Novotny in The Abyss

The Abyss review, a nail biter based on truth

The Abyss is a nail biter of a disaster movie from Sweden, based in fact. The city of Kiruna, Sweden is a real city with a real iron mining operation that has been ongoing for hundreds of years. The Swedes

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Jennifer Lopez and Bella Gagliano in This Is Me... Now

This is Me . . . Now: Jennifer Lopez takes a selfie

In This is Me . . . Now, Jennifer Lopez tells her own story using the language of music, dance, lyrics, metaphor, imagery, and drama. She calls herself “The Artist” in this. As an artist, she uses the tools of

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Fantasia Barrino in The Color Purple

The Color Purple musical review

I know The Color Purple is meant to liberate Black women, but I’ve always loved it. I’ve read the book by Alice Walker multiple times, I’ve seen the original movie multiple times. What I had not done was see the

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