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Movie Review: ‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ brings back the magic with new faces and tricks

November 23, 2025November 23, 2025 · Entertainment

Ten years or so between installments of a successful Hollywood franchise is a lifetime. When it comes to the third “Now You See Me” movie — poof! —…

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Reviews For The Easily Distracted: Tron: Ares – Houston Press

October 10, 2025October 11, 2025 · Houston, Texas Local News

Title: Tron: AresDescribe This Movie Using One Dragnet Quote: FRIDAY: Reckless endangerment of human life, willful disregard of private property, failure to signal for a lane change.STREEBECK: Yeah,…

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Movie Review: Ron Howard’s ‘Eden’ brings 1920s chaos on a Galápagos island to life

August 21, 2025August 25, 2025 · Entertainment

Ron Howard’s “Eden” opens with a bold statement: “Fascism is spreading.” It’ll surely carry weight in modern society, but the phrase is referencing events from nearly a century…

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Foe review: Sci-fi thriller starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal is ‘endlessly engaging’

Foe review: Sci-fi thriller starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal is ‘endlessly engaging’

September 30, 2023September 30, 2023 · Pop Culture

The film’s tone turns more ominous when Terrance announces that while Junior is away his company will leave Hen with a Junior substitute, a lifelike AI to fill…

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Oppenheimer review: A “magnificent” story of a tragic American genius

Oppenheimer review: A “magnificent” story of a tragic American genius

July 19, 2023July 19, 2023 · Pop Culture

The film doesn’t belabour or especially try to explain the science of the bomb, even as research physicists cluster around Oppenheimer to debate it. At Los Alamos, the…

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Movie review: Ezra Miller speeds back to the future in ‘The Flash,’ fueled by calories and cameos

Movie review: Ezra Miller speeds back to the future in ‘The Flash,’ fueled by calories and cameos

June 13, 2023June 18, 2023 · Entertainment

“It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature,” went a famous ’70s commercial catchphrase. But we learn in “The Flash” — the much awaited, long gestated new DC Studios…

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is ‘disappointing’

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is ‘disappointing’

May 31, 2023May 31, 2023 · Pop Culture

As before, the cleverness and craftsmanship are so staggering that they make the directors of every other animation seem as if they aren’t trying. But perhaps Across the…

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The Little Mermaid review: A fairytale ‘for the age of Marvel movies’

The Little Mermaid review: A fairytale ‘for the age of Marvel movies’

May 22, 2023May 22, 2023 · Pop Culture

There is logic to the breakdown of live action and animation here. Even half-humans are played by actors while everyone else is animated, including Ariel’s friends Scuttle the…

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Fast X review: ‘Preposterous from beginning to end’

Fast X review: ‘Preposterous from beginning to end’

May 17, 2023May 17, 2023 · Pop Culture

The villains are usually killed in these fights – even if they’re not really villains: the Agency’s troops are just trying to apprehend people they believe to be…

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Polite Society review: This explosive, action-packed delight recalls Scott Pilgrim, Kill Bill, Get Out and The Matrix

Polite Society review: This explosive, action-packed delight recalls Scott Pilgrim, Kill Bill, Get Out and The Matrix

April 24, 2023April 24, 2023 · Pop Culture

Among other things, Polite Society is also a coming-of-age story. Ria is a teenager. She can be brash and immature. At one point, unable to find any dirt…

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Joaquin Phoenix in Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid: ‘The most bizarre film of the year’

Joaquin Phoenix in Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid: ‘The most bizarre film of the year’

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023 · Pop Culture

Not that this is the only one of his issues that gets an airing. By the end of the film, Aster has abandoned any pretence of telling a…

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Review: In ‘Chevalier,’ an erased figure gets a lush biopic

Review: In ‘Chevalier,’ an erased figure gets a lush biopic

April 19, 2023April 24, 2023 · Entertainment

Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was an extraordinarily accomplished man in Marie Antoinette’s France. He was a scholar, a fencer, a virtuoso violinist and a famous and…

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Renfield is ‘a sloppy mess’ even though Nicolas Cage’s Dracula is a treat

Renfield is ‘a sloppy mess’ even though Nicolas Cage’s Dracula is a treat

April 14, 2023April 14, 2023 · Pop Culture

The criminal connection does have one positive effect on the story. It brings in Awkwafina, who is lively and comically baffled as Rebecca, a New Orleans police officer…

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The Super Mario Bros. Movie review: ‘Lazy and for fans only’

The Super Mario Bros. Movie review: ‘Lazy and for fans only’

April 3, 2023April 4, 2023 · Pop Culture

Anyway, one night the brothers investigate a flood, which is never explained, and find a magical pipe, which is also never explained. The pipe zaps them both to…

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Dungeons & Dragons: Honour among Thieves: ‘Warm and upbeat’

Dungeons & Dragons: Honour among Thieves: ‘Warm and upbeat’

March 28, 2023March 28, 2023 · Pop Culture

If the comic tone is skilfully judged, it’s clear that Goldstein and Daley didn’t concentrate quite so hard on other aspects of their film. The plot is so…

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John Wick: Chapter 4: ‘Soars above most action films’

John Wick: Chapter 4: ‘Soars above most action films’

March 13, 2023March 13, 2023 · Pop Culture

And in Paris, Wick has a meeting with the Marquis, the Eiffel Tower providing a picturesque backdrop. A big, climactic scene is set on the steps and in…

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Cocaine Bear review: A B-movie about a drug-crazed bear

Cocaine Bear review: A B-movie about a drug-crazed bear

February 23, 2023February 23, 2023 · Pop Culture

As these characters wander around the park, they are almost funny enough to keep us interested, but their scenes still seem weirdly sluggish and redundant, because they don’t…

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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: The worst Marvel film yet

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: The worst Marvel film yet

February 14, 2023February 14, 2023 · Pop Culture

It’s a rule of superhero movies that they must culminate in an overlong action sequence, with bodies and weapons crashing around everywhere. Now imagine if that sequence were…

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M Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin is ‘passably tense’

M Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin is ‘passably tense’

February 1, 2023February 1, 2023 · Pop Culture

Adapted from The Cabin at the End of the World, a novel by Paul Tremblay, Knock at the Cabin sees Shyamalan returning to the apocalyptic concerns of two of his earlier films, Signs and The…

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Review: Two publishing power brokers in ‘Turn Every Page’

Review: Two publishing power brokers in ‘Turn Every Page’

December 28, 2022January 1, 2023 · Entertainment

Civil wars over semicolons and heated debate over the word “looms” would not, on the face of it, seem like the stuff of a gripping big-screen movie. But…

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