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Told he’s been cursed and will die within a week, a Kathmandu man desperately seeks the elusive spirit that might
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‘Voyagers’ Review: It’s ‘Lord of the Flies’ in Space, and in Hip Black T-Shirts
Every era gets the youth sci-fi action movie it deserves. Twenty-five years ago, Paul Verhoeven made “Starship Troopers” (1997), and
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Brandi Carlile has worshipped Elton John all of her adult and adolescent life, so it’s fitting that as she started
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Movies about American teenage life tend to be jumpy and exuberant, as if they were unfolding in a hive. In
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“Hi, Mom” begins as a pleasant enough comic fantasy about a young Chinese woman who time-travels from 2001 to 1981
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The famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen led the first expedition to reach the South Pole (on Dec. 14, 1911), so
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Boldness is very much the brand in Demi Lovato’s new album, “Dancing With the Devil… The Art of Starting Over,”
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Those who typically scope the Academy Award-nominated shorts programs hoping to win the Oscar pool will have a particularly tough
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To seriously consider “Roe v. Wade” — that is, writer-directors Cathy Allyn and Nick Loeb’s atrocious anti-abortion propaganda piece and
Read more‘Alien on Stage’ Review: British Bus Drivers Re-create a Sci-Fi Classic in This Affectionate Behind-the-Scenes Doc
Back in my early days as a film critic, I took a certain unseemly pleasure in mocking inadvertently funny flops
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