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This animated action comedy allows Pixar to go back to the “Toy Story” well and pretend that they aren’t. It’s impressive, but looks overfamiliar. “Lightyear” comes out in June. This was one of several kiddie films trailers attached to “Sonic … Continue reading →

Few cultures make a religion out of embracing eccentrics the way the Brits do. They like to see themselves as history’s plucky underdogs, and they’re always on the lookout for another example of unlikely glory, somebody underestimated but determined to … Continue reading →

It’s safe to say that ballet doesn’t recruit every fresh generation dancers from the movies about the art form, which all try to show the insane level of self-sacrifice and many go out of their way to depict it as … Continue reading →

Some — not all, but some — of the folks showing up for their second paying job in the “Sonic the Hedgehog” universe let us see their boredom. Actors are careless about their sightlines when interacting with a digital effect. … Continue reading →

The harbinger couldn’t be clearer or more simple. A crow crashes into a window of the “lovely everyday life of an ordinary Finnish family.” It gets in the house, wreaks havoc of vlogger/influencer/ever-smiling-mom’s designer glassware and chandelier. Teen daughter Tinja … Continue reading →

A nightmare of childhood comes to vivid fly-on-a-wall life in “Playground,” a candid and wrenching account of childhood bullying from writer-director Laura Wandel. In 72 hellish, sometimes heartbreaking minutes, this Belgian film — shortlisted for Best International Feature at the … Continue reading →

“Lives of quiet desperation” have become cosplayers, podcasters and legends in their own minds. “Poser” looks provocative and sexy and dreamy and Oscilloscope Labs has it. So that means “June 3, this one is what I’m gonna see.

If you want to know what the cool kids are watching this weekend… Well, white suburbanite teens with a taste for heavy metal, if nobody else, should go all “School of Rock” over this seriously transgressive high school comedy called … Continue reading →

https://wp.me/p30FOE-kh The gold standard for spy thrillers isn’t Sir Ian’s Fantastical Mr. Bond, James Bond. That label belongs to the gritty, patient and “real world/real consequences” human-assets spycraft as depicted in the novels of John LeCarre of “Tinker Tailor Soldier … Continue reading →

You don’t have to be a big fan of “Fiddler on the Roof” to get a kick out of “Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen,” the warm and lighthearted documentary remembrance of this 1971 film. But if you see this … Continue reading →