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‘Parasite’ Review: Bong Joon Ho Delivers His Masterpiece

★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 A blood-soaked fable, the latest from South Korean auteur Bong Joon Ho (The Host, Snowpiercer, Okja) starts simply: The dirt-poor Kim Ki-Taek (the superb Song Kang Ho, a Bong regular) is...

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‘Western Stars’ Review: Springsteen Live, High-Lonesome, and Uncut

★ ★ ★ ★ Bruce Springsteen eases into a damn fine feature-film directing debut, aided and abetted by his longtime collaborator Thom Zimny, with Western Stars, a transporting musical ode to the American...

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‘Frozen II’ Review: Disney Sequel Is a Frosty, Fun Follow-Up

★ ★ ★ ★ When the animated musical Frozen skated into the multiplex in 2013, it grossed a record-breaking $!.27 billion in cold cash. Let it go? Hell, no! Six years later, Disney delivers an uneven but...

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‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ Review: A Perfectly Imperfect Last Chapter

★ ★ ★ 1/2 Whether you were around in 1977 when creator George Lucas first unleashed his cultural behemoth in theaters, or you just started binge-watching the whole thing yesterday on your phone, Star...

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‘1917’ Review: War Is Hell, One Shot at a Time

★ ★ ★ ★ 1/2 In the first shot of this groundbreaking World War I film, two young British soldiers — lance corporals Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) — are caught napping in a...

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‘Underwater’ Review: Poor Kristen Stewart, Stuck in a Soggy ‘Alien’ Rip-Off

★ 1/2 If wishing could make it so, Underwater would be Alien on the ocean floor. Instead, this brazen carbon copy of Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi landmark is just all wet. Shot three years ago, this...

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‘Bad Boys For Life’: Third Time’s a Charm For Smith and Lawrence

★ ★ ★ Before he became a cynical parody of himself, director Michael Bay made an efficient 1995 feature debut with Bad Boys, a buddy-cop flick that came in hot on the star power of Will Smith and...

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Oscars 2020 Predictions: Who Will Win, Who Should Win

It’s Oscar night on Sunday — a.k.a. Hollywood’s annual orgy of self congratulation. For 2020, there are nine nominees up for Best Picture with Little Women trying not to wipe out in an avalanche of...

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‘Fantasy Island’ Review: A Nightmare of a Reboot

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ If crimes against cinema merited prosecution, Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island would go directly to death row. It defies common sense why Blumhouse, the company that boasts Get Out, The Purge, and...

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‘The Invisible Man’: Monster-Movie Reboot As #MeToo Revenge Story

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ The last time Universal tried to reinvent its classic monster series, it came up with 2017’s The Mummy, starring Tom Cruise, who probably wished his face was covered in bandages to disguise...

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