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Movie review: Storytelling less than magical in fantastical ‘100 Nights of Hero’

“Are you ready? Then we shall begin.” This narration, over an image of three moons hanging in the sky, begins Julia Jackman’s “100 Nights of Hero,” which she adapted from Isabel Greenberg’s 2016 graphic novel, and directed. It signifies that we are in for a level of heightened, self-reflective fantasy storytelling, and in fact, the revolutionary power of storytelling itself is the beating heart of this film.
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Film review: ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ is a witty, soulful satire of pulpit power

"Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery," Rian Johnson's darkest, funniest and best installment yet in his three-film detective series, takes place in a church stunned by two sins. The first is murder. The second is theft: The franchise's star, Southern-fried private investigator Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), has the film stolen from him by a priest, Father Jud Duplenticy (Josh O'Connor), an ...
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Chris Hemsworth uses ‘reminiscence therapy’ to help his dad’s Alzheimer’s

Chris Hemsworth's new documentary, "A Road Trip to Remember," takes viewers on a motorbike adventure around Melbourne and Australia's Northern Territory. His costar and father, 71-year-old Craig Hemsworth, is right alongside him through the dirt and rocky terrain, despite living with early stage Alzheimer's disease. Chris Hemsworth has a genetic predisposition to the disease.
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Film review: Second half of film adaptation doesn’t quite soar in ‘Wicked: For Good’

After an extremely long intermission (a full year, which a lot of us spent humming “Defying Gravity”), we’re back in the Land of Oz with “Wicked: For Good,” the second half of Jon M. Chu’s screen version of the smash Broadway musical. The first film, 2024’s “Wicked,” was an absolute thrill ride; the second ... well, let’s just say I’m not overwhelmed. But maybe not underwhelmed, either; just whelmed, I guess.
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Movie review: ‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’ a diverting sleight of hand

You know millennial nostalgia has reached a dangerous peak when there’s a new “Now You See Me” film in theaters. The last time we encountered the merry band of Robin Hood prankster magicians known as the Horsemen, it was the Obama era, when “Now You See Me 2,” the sequel to the hit 2013 film, appeared in theaters in the summer of 2016. Were we ever so young? Back then, the Horsemen, played by ...
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Movie review: Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Die My Love’ a primal scream of maternal rage

Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay’s long-awaited fifth feature, “Die My Love” poses a provocative question under the guise of a mental health crisis: can a wild woman be domesticated? Immediately, she hints at her answer, but the audience doesn’t know it yet. We watch a young couple, Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) and Jackson (Robert Pattinson) move into a new home and start to play house. What happens after that is so wild and unpredictable that we almost forget that where it ends up is where it was always going.
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