“Weathering With You” achieves something impressive: It tells a story that, without sugarcoating the environmental challenges that lie ahead, manages to end on a hopeful note.

The only thing “Dolittle” does well is out-bomb the infamous bomb “Doctor Dolittle,” and that is one for the history books.

From its smooth visuals and warm, swinging sounds to its magnificent performances, “Just Mercy” is masterfully constructed to keep us inside a story that otherwise would be too brutal to bear.

As stylish as it is, and with as many deeply treacherous and inventive dilemmas as the group faces, the film is so faithful to the formula that it never achieves pulse-quickening suspense.

“Like a Boss” is the perfect airplane movie – something that won’t distract you terribly much while you work the New York Times crossword puzzle during a long flight periodically looking up at the screen when the 2-year-old in the seat behind you kicks the back of your chair.

“1917” is staggering in its cinematic scope, but scaled to human size it embodies the truthful experience and enormous sacrifice of this war.

Officials have identified the man who died in an off-road vehicle crash at the Seven Mile ORV Park.

A man died Wednesday after his truck rolled at the Seven Mile ORV Park in Nine Mile Falls.

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In Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s blockbuster 1869 novel, she breathes new life into the well-known and well-loved story by unraveling it and knitting it back together to create an entirely new kind of garment that looks and feels the same, but fits differently.

There’s a warm message of companionship and teamwork at the center of “Spies in Disguise,” but what makes it subversive is its emphasis on gentler methods of conflict resolution, or at least less bloody ones. It’s refreshing to see bubbles, bubblegum and lots of kitty glitter defeat murderous robots.

Adam Sandler himself has – not inaccurately – described Howard Ratner as selfish, but the character is also a cockeyed optimist, a dreamer, the quintessential American striver. He’s not a hero exactly, except perhaps a tragic one.

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When George Lucas introduced “Star Wars” to the world 42 years ago, no one knew what a cultural force it would become. This weekend, J.J. Abrams is bringing what’s become known as “The Skywalker Saga” to a close, and he’s left critics wishing for something better.

In myth, including not just the gods and heroes of ancient Greece and Rome but Westerns and even the superhero comic books and TV serials that inspired the “Star Wars” films, the good guys are often flawed. So it makes sense that Rey must be seen to grapple with her less virtuous nature.

Having just watched “Cats,” the movie version of the hit musical about something called “Jellicle cats,” it is clear that “Jellicle” must be cat speak for “wackadoodle.”

In one of her first declarations in “Bombshell,” former Fox News star Megyn Kelly (portrayed uncannily by Charlize Theron) lays out exactly who she is. “I’m not a feminist,” she claims, “I’m a lawyer.”

Dread shopping at the mall? Prefer buying local and handmade? Now you can head downtown and still keep your chin up. River Park Square will be ground zero for shopping procrastinators and buy-local snobs alike this Saturday when arts nonprofit Terrain holds its second-annual holiday Brrrzaar. From 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, more than 70 vendors will set up an outdoor-like market on all three floors of the mall’s heated halls. There will be dozens of jewelry makers, bath balm mixers, knitters, painters, printmakers and leather crafters. Artists will beckon mall shoppers with booths stuffed with their local and handmade wares.

“The Kingmaker” chills the soul by presenting shantytown residents and school kids who extol the Marcos regime and even endorse its eight-year period of martial law. Imelda Marcos is not the mother of all Filipinos, but some of them are happy to proclaim themselves her children.