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Weekly Movie Guide
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Just in time for Thanksgiving, Universal Pictures presents us with an overstuffed turkey of a musical sequel. It’s still a tasty treat for the eyes, and it showcases the ace performance skills of Ariana Grande. Even so, “Wicked: For Good” fails to supply the joyful, engaging impact of the first movie.
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It sounds rather like a mixed compliment to say of an actor that he’s persuasive at playing, well, a mediocre actor. But then, this is Brendan Fraser we’re talking about. The man seems to become more emphatically human with each role, including in “Rental Family.”
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Reality and fiction beautifully weave in and out in “Jay Kelly,” director Noah Baumbach’s love letter to Hollywood that, in other hands, could so easily have become just a love letter to George Clooney.
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There is nothing particularly grand about Robert Grainier’s existence in the world. The main character of “Train Dreams” is not a great thinker, artist or athlete. Portrayed by a bearded, contemplative Joel Edgerton, he seems to live life simply because it’s there.
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“The Exes of Christmas Past,” a holiday rom-com with scenes filmed in April in Libertyville, debuted Sunday, Nov. 16, on Tubi.
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Ted Danson’s “A Man on the Inside” returning to Netflix for its second season and Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo belting out the “Wicked: For Good” soundtrack are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
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“I do understand that what Selena means so many years later, to the Latino world,” her sister Suzette Quintanilla says. “Who better than to tell our story other than us?” she says of the new Netflix documentary “Selena Y Los Dinos: A Family’s Legacy.”
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It’s no magic trick: The third installment in the thieving magician “Now You See Me” series beat the high-profile action pic “The Running Man” at the North American box office this weekend.
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Tom Cruise, at 63 still the biggest movie star in a room full of them, finally got to hold his own Oscar on a Hollywood stage on Sunday night.
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The Oscars are making room for one more award on their live broadcast in 2026. The new prize for achievement in casting will be part of the 98th Academy Awards in March, the academy told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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