“The Teachers’ Lounge” is a German film deservedly nominated for the Best International Feature at this year’s Oscars. Leonie Benesch plays a naive novice schoolteacher who sets off a volatile firestorm when […]

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The wildly imaginative tongue-in-cheek action comedy “Argylle” is the sort of movie that the term “meta” was coined for. Bryce Dallas Howard stars as a homebody novelist. She becomes the […]

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The banality of evil is the subject of the devastating German entry, “The Zone of Interest,” loosely based on the novel by Martin Amis. It’s the favorite to win this […]

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Ava DuVernay’s earnest and thoughtful drama “Origin” focuses on the multiple personal traumas that prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson endured as she wrote and researched her nonfiction bestseller, “Caste: The Origins […]

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Tina Fey’s hit 2004 comedy “Mean Girls” was adapted into a popular Broadway musical. The new movie is a cinematic version of that play. Angourie Rice leads the cast in […]

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Happy New Year. Time to look back at the best of the cinematic crop for 2023. 10) PAST LIVES A sweet and melancholy drama about childhood friends who awkwardly reconnect […]

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The second cinematic adaptation of Alice Walker’s classic novel “The Color Purple” is an admirable reworking of the Broadway musical version. Fantasia Barrino is terrific in the central role of […]

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Jason Mamoa returns for possibly the last time as the aquatic DC superhero in “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.” There’s over $200 million worth of eye candy in the story […]

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Did we really need a musical prequel to the classic 1971 fantasy “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?” No. But I’m still glad that we got one. Timothy Chalamet is […]

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The contentious relationship between renowned composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia is the focus of the biopic, “Maestro.” It’s in theaters now and on Netflix on December 20th. Bradley […]

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