For better or worse, the sports biopic “The Smashing Machine” (A24) registers as a highly realistic film.
Movie Reviews
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‘Bernadette of Lourdes’ French musical coming to America with ‘universal’ message
by Kurt Jensenby Kurt JensenThe two-act musical “Bernadette of Lourdes” will begin an American tour in 2026, and a video of the show in French with subtitles will be in theaters Sept. 28-29, 2025.
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This intermittently amusing comedy, a sendup of the hardboiled cop genre, may qualify as a fun spoof for grown-ups. Yet one sequence of utterly tasteless sexual sight gags will leave …
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NEW YORK (OSV News) – With “Smurfs” (Paramount), a blend of animation and live action, director Chris Miller has given the titular blue elves, Belgian cartoonist Peyo’s trademark creatures, a …
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Old-fashioned in the best sense, “Superman” celebrates the small-town values with which its protagonist was raised. Yet the screenplay aims for contemporary resonance as well.
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Offered big money by the representative of a pharmaceutical company to help retrieve dinosaur DNA, two special operatives veterans and a paleontologist join on a journey to a remote equatorial …
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‘Tis the season for popcorn pictures and the slick but shallow sports drama “F1 the Movie” (Warner Bros.) fits the bill.
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Intriguing connections are made and emotional insights provided in the course of the animated adventure “Elio” (Disney).
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“28 Years Later” contains skewed values, pervasive gory violence, full nudity in a nonsexual context, a couple of profanities and frequent rough language.
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A decade and a half after its popular animated namesake was released comes the live-action remake “How to Train Your Dragon” (Universal).