In an inversion of the typical Yuletide tale, characters who have much less than the McCallisters generously provide them with assistance.
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Nicole Kidman is fascinating as Lucille Ball, but that’s not enough to save ‘Being the Ricardos’
Aaron Sorkin’s take on the “behind-the-scenes” world of “I Love Lucy” depicts Lucille Ball in a most unsympathetic light.
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Review: ‘Belfast,’ a memoir of Protestant boyhood in Troubles-torn Northern Ireland, gives a child’s-eye view of Catholicism
“Belfast” presents itself as a family photo album: Violence may intrude, but it doesn’t crowd out the Christmas pictures.
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Review: In Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story,’ every element sings — and every moment counts
What this quintessential stage musical needed, apparently, was a thoroughgoing cinematic makeover.
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Think you know what the Beatles’ last days were like? Disney+’s ‘Get Back’ will shatter your assumptions.
Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” is fascinating, tedious and indispensable all at the same time.
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‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’ is the perfect Thanksgiving movie for this year
Most of us will enter into the weekend feeling like Steve Martin’s Neal Page, entirely justified in our desires. We should be able to have a Thanksgiving that is not filled with craziness or fighting!
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Interview: ‘King Richard’ director on the family story of Venus and Serena Williams
“King Richard” charts how Richard Williams, the father of Venus and Serena Williams, made good on the promise few believed possible.
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Netflix’s ‘Procession’ seeks to treat the trauma of sexual abuse with art
This is not a movie about crime and punishment, but damage and recovery.
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Netflix’s ‘Tick, Tick…Boom!’ is a miraculous resurrection of an artist we lost too soon
“Tick, Tick … Boom!” is also a soul-deep tribute by Lin-Manuel Miranda to an artist who inspired him at a formative age.
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‘Dune’ is another sci-fi Messiah tale. The New Testament references are everywhere.
Frank Herbert’s beloved novel has enough material that should preclude the kind of dead space that inhabits so much of this “Dune.”