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The villains of the 2022 holiday season were the airlines, so it’s an apt moment for the Gerard Butler action vehicle “Plane” to take flight. The inciting incident involves a cost-cutting safety checker at Trailblazer Airlines insisting that Captain Brodie Torrance (Butler) pilot through a storm instead of around it in order to save fuel during a New Year’s flight from Singapore to Tokyo. Of course, since this is a Gerard Butler action film the passengers on Trailblazer Flight 119 don’t end up stranded for days in an airport but rather fighting for their lives on a remote island in the Philippines ruled by a separatist militia whose primary source of income is hostages.

New year. New superhero movies. And the newly relevant question of who will be the champion of comic-book cinema in the near future.

'House Party' remake a LeBron James production

'Broker' is a road-trip movie gift from overseas

'Glass Onion': murderous sequel to 'Knives Out'

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'Pale Blue Eye' uses real-life Poe in fictional tale

Writer-director Scott Cooper may be as perfect an interpreter as can be imagined for Netflix's pulpy yet high-minded adaptation of "The Pale Blue Eye," a well-received 2003 whodunit by novelist Louis Bayard about a series of grisly 1830 murders investigated by a retired police detective and his young assistant, Edgar Allan Poe. 

As the title character in "A Man Called Otto," Tom Hanks plays a cantankerous widower with an affinity for home repair. When it comes to this tear-jerker's own makeover - it's based on Hannes Holm's 2016 Swedish film "A Man Called Ove," inspired by Fredrik Backman's 2012 novel - some sanded-off edges threaten to throw the project out of whack. But in the end, they don't quite compromise a sturdy foundation.

Last fall the internet witnessed a rare phenomenon: the meteoric, memeified rise of a brand new star, catapulted into mononymic ubiquity thanks to a single two and-a-half minute movie trailer. But M3GAN isn’t your average girl — she’s a lifelike, powerful robotic doll equipped with machine-learning capabilities that makes a Tamagotchi look like child’s play.

We're a week away from the beginning of Oscar nominations voting. Motion picture academy members presumably spent the holidays unwrapping tamales, spiking the eggnog and catching up on the movies they've missed.

PRIEST RIVER, Idaho – In 1923, a pioneering filmmaker named Nell Shipman premiered her silent feature film, “The Grub-Stake,” at the new Rex Theater in Priest River.

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In a season of Top 10 lists, here's one on steroids: We looked through the last 12 months of movie reviews and found 33 films that received 31/2 or 4 stars from our critics. Ranging from such mainstream fare as "Top Gun: Maverick" and "Nope" to "You Won't Be Alone" - a little Macedonian-language art-house horror film about a 19th-century witch - the list is a reminder of all the varied ways in which movies delight us.

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As a sleigh load of movies hits theaters and streaming this weekend, you're probably curious about where each of the newest films falls on our critics' naughty-or-nice lists. Here's what Washington Post reviewers - some Grinch-ier than others - have to say about this week's releases, in theaters and on demand.