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'Devotion' is a quiet tale of allyship amid heroics

Saturday, 5 August 2023, 08:55 Last update: about 10 months ago Associated Press

There must be something about actor Glen Powell that casting directors associate with the heavens. He's played astronaut John Glenn in "Hidden Figures," voiced a NASA official in the animated...

'Salvatore' fetes a life devoted to feet and fashion

Friday, 7 July 2023, 07:28 Last update: about 11 months ago Associated Press

Next time you arrive home with aching, blistered feet after a long day, take heart: It's not your feet that are the problem. It's your shoes. And that comes from the master, the late Salvatore...

Chastain is an everyday superhero in 'Good Nurse'

Friday, 7 July 2023, 07:27 Last update: about 11 months ago Associated Press

Movie titles are always important, but there's special significance to the title of "The Good Nurse," based on the horrific serial killings of dozens and possibly hundreds of patients by a night nurse...

A classic battle epic in 'The Woman King'

Saturday, 1 July 2023, 12:36 Last update: about 11 months ago Associated Press

Viola Davis should have been leading armies this whole time. In " The Woman King," the always regal Oscar-winner is a mass of muscle, battle wounds and world weariness as General Nanisca, the...

'Smile' turns twisted grin into bland horror flick

Saturday, 1 July 2023, 12:35 Last update: about 11 months ago Associated Press

I have mostly frowny faces for "Smile," a bluntly unsettling and blandly grim new horror flick that wrings as much mileage as it can out of a twisted grin. Parker Finn's directorial debut, which...

'Bros' makes rom-com history and then joins in it

Saturday, 1 July 2023, 12:31 Last update: about 11 months ago Associated Press

"Bros," the latest romantic comedy to hit theaters, is absolutely revolutionary. And totally conventional. It's a film where both extremes can be true at the same time. The revolutionary part...

Ana de Armas digs deep as Marilyn in brutal 'Blonde'

Sunday, 4 June 2023, 08:41 Last update: about 12 months ago Associated Press

What a dream it must be to be Marilyn Monroe, a starstruck assistant tells her. "Everyone would give their right arm to be you!" And we cringe, as we'll do many times during Andrew Dominik's...

'Catherine Called Birdy' is a medieval delight

Sunday, 4 June 2023, 08:35 Last update: about 12 months ago Associated Press

Passion projects can go all sorts of wrong ways, but Lena Dunham has made something of a triumph in " Catherine Called Birdy," a medieval coming-of-age story that's part "Bridget Jones's Diary," part...

'Moonage Daydream' brings Bowie back to Earth

Sunday, 4 June 2023, 08:33 Last update: about 12 months ago Associated Press

Brett Morgen's David Bowie documentary "Moonage Daydream " plunges into the mind of the rock star — it puts a ray gun to Bowie's head — and comes away with something that, at its best, is...

A spiky social satire in 'Triangle of Sadness'

Saturday, 27 May 2023, 11:13 Last update: about 12 months ago Associated Press

The question of worth flows through Ruben Östlund's " Triangle of Sadness," a handsomely grotesque satire about the guests and workers aboard a luxury yacht. The ideas might not be new, and the...

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