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“Joker: Folie à Deux” hit a sour note for some audiences.The highly anticipated “Joker” sequel, which hit theaters on Friday, is underwhelming at the box office, and for those who did see the movie, they weren’t staying long. Social media users took the internet by storm to share why Joaquin Phoenix, who reprised his role as the Joker, and Lady Gaga, who played Harley Quinn, didn’t cut it for them. “Guys, me and my wife are at the view, and we’re going to watch ‘Joker 2’ and the screening before us, everyone’s leaving.

a true-crime story about a serial killer, but a new movie directed by Anna Kendrick does a number on that familiar genre. Rather than being about the monster himself, or even one of his victims, the film is centered around a person he did not murder — someone who got away.Running time: 89 minutes.

The Florida Project.” Endlessly entertaining and frequently hysterical, “Anora” is one of the year’s best films and a formidable Oscar contender.Like caviar, it’s not for everybody. This unsentimental, less-straightforward “Pretty Woman” starts with a panning shot of topless lap dancers and includes plenty of sex (the funny kind) and choice language that’s the opposite of politically correct.

wrote on X that movie theater staff “reported 11 people walking out and 1 person vomiting” during the screening.“If the #Terrifier3 event impacted you please let us know if you need more support at this time,” the distribution company wrote in its statement. The message was shared alongside a post from the movie’s official X account that showed an image displaying a warning for “extreme violence and excessive gore.” It read: “If you are feeling unwell, please find a member of staff.

in the last one.Joaquin Phoenix won an Oscar for playing the traumatized loser who is essentially Robert De Niro in “The King of Comedy,” plus clown makeup. So, let’s milk it for all it’s worth.But the truth is that the whack-job Gothamite with no Batman to battle is more weird than he is involving.Aimless, Arthur whispers, glares, yells, rails against the world and does his creepy laugh again and again with nothing to show for it.

How To Train Your Dragon” and “Kung Fu Panda.”Around the time “Dragon” was released in 2010, I began preferring DreamWorks to the critically worshipped Pixar and its yappy Ivy League blobs.Like that cold-blooded-but-heartwarming adventure about a one-winged fire-breather, “Robot” doesn’t set out to be the class know-it-all that back-pats adults with puns and overly clever “a-ha!”s.Instead, writer-director Chris Sanders (of, you guessed it, “Dragon”) goes right for his character’s souls — and ours.Roz is a futuristic robo-assistant, like an Alexa or Siri, who can walk, assimilate and help around the house. However, she’s not of much use when her shipping package washes ashore on a faraway island inhabited only by animals.The android is nibbled, scratched, chased, attacked and rained on.

the likely final movie from the genius director of “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now” versus the obvious reality that his new film is a catastrophe.As with every awful movie that wobbles on the stilts of good intentions, you can guess what wins. “Megalopolis,” for all its high-minded ideals, is impossible to like.

Clooney moaned at the Venice Film Festival when asked about his paycheck, er, sorry, his movie.Really, the pair should send Apple CEO Tim Cook an Edible Arrangement for saving them the embarrassment of what would have been a giant flop.“Wolfs,” a so-called comedy written and directed by Jon Watts in which Clooney and Pitt play rival New York fixers tasked with discreetly disposing of a dead body, is a dreadful, laugh-free slog that tests the limits of what star power alone can salvage.The A-list presence of Brad and George cannot mask the elementary school dialogue they utter, the jumbled tone and Dollar Store aesthetic. In fact, their attachment to this compost only exacerbates its many, many problems. The boldface names suggest a certain level of quality — or, at the very least, competence — that this movie does not meet.

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” with Angelina Jolie, has carved a niche in cool, edgy projects that are that rare combo of popular and prestigious. His performance here, scary and siren-like, is a smash.And Kidman is a natural fit for Romy, who starts out proper and rigid and then gets wilder — showing up unannounced and drenched in rain at Samuel’s bartending job and dancing at a club.Reijn, who has another scrumptious winner after “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” doesn’t decide whether we should be happy for Romy or not, or if what the exec is doing is liberating or reckless.

a madcap comedy about the 90-minute dash leading up to the 1975 debut episode of “SNL,” the show’s famously enigmatic creator is lionized. Michaels, the most important behind-the-scenes comedic force of the past 50 years, is placed on an innovator pedestal alongside the likes of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, only without their personal downsides.He’s portrayed as an optimistic young underdog with an improbably bold vision: a completely live, weekly sketch series starring inexperienced, unpolished nobodies in a desert island of time-slots.His “This is Sparta!” speech comes during the climax, when Lorne (Gabriel LaBelle) is grilled by NBC exec David Tebet (Willem Dafoe) about what “Saturday Night Live” exactly is.Lorne, finding his confidence in real time, tells doubting David it’s discovering a hot new comic at the back of a bar downtown, or being swept up by the music at a tucked-away jazz club.“It’s everything you think is going to happen when you move to the city,” says a then-30-year-old Michaels.

Oscar-winning “All Quiet on the Western Front,” is a master entertainer who’s allergic to lulls. Every second is dripping with drama. His flair for grandiosity that shown so brilliantly in that World War I epic is back with a vengeance at St.

Hillbilly Elegy”) the viewer goes along with her for the ride, er, walk. “Nightbitch” is funny and lovably weird.A bigger issue than its oddball plot is that the film, which Heller also adapted, is one-note.

After 36 years of waiting, the juice is finally loose again in “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” this time racking up $110 million in its premiere weekend.The long-awaited Tim Burton sequel is the third-best opening weekend of the year, only behind box office triumphs “Inside Out 2” and “Deadpool & Wolverine.”Michael Keaton returns as the titular spirit and Catherine O’Hara and Winona Ryder also reprise their roles as Delia and Lydia Deetz, with newcomer Jenna Ortega playing the latter’s daughter, Astrid. Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci and Justin Theroux round out the cast.The Warner Bros.

The latest grungy fight drama to test the limits of unpleasantness is “The Cut,” which premiered Thursday at the Toronto International Film Festival.Running time: 99 minutes. Not yet rated.Bidding adieu to Middle Earth and the high seas, Orlando Bloom plays a troubled Irish boxer — in fact, he’s called The Boxer — who’s asked to return to the pro circuit after 10 years away for a splashy bout in Las Vegas.At the start, “The Cut” is an adequate, typical gloves-and-shoves picture.

co-starring Jennifer Lopez as Anthony’s hardworking mom Judy, is a veritable tear factory.You know what you’re in for when, after winning a national high school championship in Philadelphia at the start of the film, teenaged Anthony quietly ducks out of a banquet celebrating him.“Someone should tell him he won,” a college recruiter says.The humble kid, who always refused to wear a prosthetic leg, instead walks alone to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and stares at the monument to his fictional idol, Rocky Balboa.That’s the kind of underdog tale “Unstoppable” aspires to be — one in which the hero’s home life struggles are indistinguishable from the peaks and valleys of competition. One in which Adrian matters as much as Creed.Anthony’s version of those steps, by the way, is a mountain in Arizona where he was attending ASU as a walk-on with no guaranteed spot on the team.

make her Broadway debut as foxy Roxie Hart in the musical “Chicago.” The cast change came out of nowhere. And nobody knew if she could sing or dance.

controversial film “The Apprentice,” a drama about Trump’s rise as a New York real estate tycoon in the late 1970s alongside his cutthroat lawyer and mentor Roy Cohn and wife Ivana.Since May, the film has been treating the festival circuit like swing states, hoping to gain ground.It premiered at Cannes in the spring and then struggled to find American distribution. Three guesses why.

played to the hilt by Demi Moore (what’s wrong with her?!), is an Oscar winner turned fading fitness guru a la Suzanne Somers whose luxurious Hollywood home is plastered with giant portraits of her in her prime. After Elisabeth is abruptly fired from her TV job, “Sparkle With Elizabeth,” the gutted actress learns of an underground drug called the Substance that promises to create a younger, sexier doppelgänger of a person.

Winona Ryder) dad and Delia Deetz’s (Catherine O’Hara) husband from the first flick has just been chewed up by a shark. Lydia’s spouse Richard, with whom she has a daughter named Astrid (Jenna Ortega), was killed on an Amazon trek.

Running time: 103 minutes. Rated R (strong violent content, sexual assault, drug use and language throughout, and some sexual references). In theaters.Zoë Kravitz makes a killer directing debut with “Blink Twice,” a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller with glimmers of “Get Out” and “The White Lotus.”Often, when actors lurk to the shadows behind the camera, they wind up with a film that’s either kindergarten simple or far too complicated so as to prove they’ve got skills.

Alien: Romulus,” the latest installment in the 45-year-old franchise, opened in first place at the North American box office. The 20th Century Studios release earned an estimated $41.5 million in its first weekend, where it was playing in 3,885 locations in the U.S.