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Movie Review: If this is goodbye, 'Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom' keeps its trident high

Movie Review: If this is goodbye, 'Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom' keeps its trident high

It's perhaps appropriate that the latest Aquaman movie is about a lost kingdom. In many ways, this mini-franchise is just that, a Jason Momoa kingdom that could just quietly sink below the cinematic waves.
Holocaust past meets Amsterdam present in Steve McQueen's 'Occupied City'

Holocaust past meets Amsterdam present in Steve McQueen's 'Occupied City'

In Steve McQueen’s “Occupied City,” a young woman with an even voice narrates, with rigorous specificity, Nazi encounters and crimes throughout Amsterdam during World War II. The accounts go address by address, and so does McQueen’s camera.
Berlin film festival to honor Martin Scorsese for lifetime achievement

Berlin film festival to honor Martin Scorsese for lifetime achievement

BERLIN (AP) — Martin Scorsese will be honored for his lifetime achievement at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, organizers said Thursday.
Movie Review: A transformed Zac Efron gives his all in tragic, true-life wrestling tale ‘Iron Claw'

Movie Review: A transformed Zac Efron gives his all in tragic, true-life wrestling tale ‘Iron Claw'

It doesn’t take long to understand the level of commitment Zac Efron brings to “The Iron Claw” as Texas wrestling brother Kevin Von Erich. Just one look at the taut mass of muscle and sinew he’s become for the role will do the trick.
Movie Review: Ghosts and longing and love in ‘All of Us Strangers’

Movie Review: Ghosts and longing and love in ‘All of Us Strangers’

Andrew Scott plays a writer trying to write something about his dead parents in Andrew Haigh’s transcendent drama “All of Us Strangers.” His parents’ death is not recent – they died when he was 12.
Andrew Haigh on the collapsing times and unhealed wounds of his ghost story 'All of Us Strangers'

Andrew Haigh on the collapsing times and unhealed wounds of his ghost story 'All of Us Strangers'

NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Haigh began getting a sense of the knockout power of his new film , “All of Us Strangers,” a few days after it premiered at the Telluride Film Festival. “I’d run into people who had seen the film three days before.
How Carey Mulligan became Felicia Montealegre in ‘Maestro’

How Carey Mulligan became Felicia Montealegre in ‘Maestro’

Carey Mulligan recently realized that she's spent much of her professional career holding back. That might be surprising to hear for an actor with two Oscar nominations, a Tony nod and a laundry list of extraordinary films and enviable roles .
Zac Efron and Lily James on the simple gesture that frames the tragedy of the Von Erich wrestlers

Zac Efron and Lily James on the simple gesture that frames the tragedy of the Von Erich wrestlers

Zac Efron didn’t realize how much he needed a hug. He’d transformed himself into a mass of muscle and repressed emotion to play professional wrestler Kevin Von Erich in the new film “The Iron Claw.
Movie Review: A helicopter father flies his duck family south in 'Migration'

Movie Review: A helicopter father flies his duck family south in 'Migration'

Illumination, maker of “Despicable Me,” “Sing” and “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” has built its animation empire by mostly staying close to a child-like outlook.
Jeffrey Wright, shape-shifter supreme, sees some of himself in 'American Fiction'

Jeffrey Wright, shape-shifter supreme, sees some of himself in 'American Fiction'

NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Wright has played Jean-Michel Basquiat, Martin Luther King Jr. and Muddy Waters. He’s played Colin Powell, a Dominican drug kingpin, Batman's Commissioner Gordon and a longtime inmate nearing release.