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Weekly Movie Guide
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The latest IP to be mined into a Hollywood blockbuster is appropriately a video game that celebrates digging: “A Minecraft Movie.” The Jared Hess-directed action-adventure artfully straddles the line between delighting preteen gamers and keeping their parents awake.
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Remember what it was like growing up in the East Bay in the ’80s? Ryan Fleck sure does, and vividly. The writer-director, together with partner Anna Boden, has produced a self-described “very weird” love letter to his former home in “Freaky Tales.”
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Having it all means different things to everyone, but a rent-controlled apartment in Manhattan is probably pretty close to a universal dream. It’s easy enough, then, to understand the conundrum facing Iris (Naomi Watts), a writer, who suddenly finds herself with a 150-pound Great Dane ward after an unexpected death in “The Friend.”
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If you crossed the lovely indie musical “Once” (2007) with the charming Scottish comedy classic “Local Hero” (1983), and subtracted half of the loveliness and charm, you might end up with “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” a sweet little British comedy that tickles the senses as you watch it, then immediately evaporates.
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“Snow White” star Rachel Zegler leads the horror comedy “Y2K,” “Pulse” is Netflix’s first English-language medical procedural and the Criterion Channel is adding a batch of Vietnam War films around the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.
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Hollywood studio executives are making their case for theatergoing with a little help from John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr — along with the newly announced stars set to play them.
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