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Joker: Folie à Deux,” “Madame Web,” “Argylle.” They got what they deserve. Oscar winners Francis Ford Coppola and Kevin Costner scored pricey blunders with “Megalopolis” and “Horizon: An American Saga.” After a line of duds, Marvel finally notched a hit with “Deadpool & Wolverine,” but you still can’t help but think that the general public is waving farewell to Superheromania.But, in the midst of the mess, there were some bright spots.

I found beyond annoying thanks to the addition of a squeaky fox named Tails (actor Colleen O’Shaughnessey also performs on “Digimon”). The voice acting, for the most part, is still of the Saturday morning cartoon variety.

and a prequel to the 1994 classic that was already needlessly remade in 2019.The existence of this follow-up, somehow directed by Barry Jenkins of “Moonlight,” is similarly puzzling.Its origin story about how Simba’s pop came of age and ascended the throne is thin as a reed but elephantine in pace. With so many look-alike lions who are hard to tell apart and repetitive action sequences that numb the noggin, you think: “Oh, I just can’t wait to be home!”Despite the nonstop peril, the cash grab remains a musical.

Back to Black” and “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” the answer, my friend, is Timothée Chalamet.The 28-year-old “Dune” actor, who convincingly does all his own singing here, was the perfect choice to play Dylan. Really, the only choice.

Pennywise the Clown in “It”: Count Orlok, the undead villain of F.W. Murnau’s seminal silent vampire masterpiece from 1922.Skarsgård, adopting a deep and unsettling Carpathian accent, is petrifyingly creepy and unexpectedly alluring as he becomes what is basically Dracula.Murnau’s ingenious black-and-white original was an unauthorized German version of Bram Stoker’s novel that changed names, places and minor plot points to resonate with Deutschland.

“Gladiator II” is — and was Netflix’s most-watched movie of the week.But, bah humbug, the actual film directed by Jerry Ciccoritti is nowhere near as fun or steamy as its cheeky premise would suggest. No bow-chika-wow-wow here. Or much humor either.

another holiday with Lindsay.In her three-picture deal with Netflix, Lindsay Lohan has been churning out braincell-bursting seasonal movies since 2022.There was the unbearable “Falling for Christmas,” in which an injury causes a stuck-up hotel heiress to lose her memory. She’s forced to recover at a struggling ski-town bed and breakfast, where the vacuous woman, with extreme difficulty, learns how to make eggs.Then, in March, came the St. Patrick’s Day-pegged “Irish Wish.” O’Dius.

Wish.” “Moana 2,” the sequel to the 2016 animated film about an oceanic adventurer, is 20,000 leagues better than Disney’s congealed Thanksgiving leftovers from last year.But that’s a low, low bar. The studio’s latest likable musical is nicely animated, has nice characters and a few nice songs.

12 Years A Slave” and “Shame.”“Of course!” you might think — the film is about the 1940s. Yes, but it spiritually whisks us back much further than the Nazis’ month of bomb attacks on the United Kingdom.

“Barbenheimer” was a phenomenon impossible to manufacture. But, more than a year later, that hasn’t stopped people from trying to make “Glicked” — or even “Babyratu” — happen.The counterprogramming of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” in July 2023 hit a nerve culturally and had the receipts to back it up.

longer.Hollywood has, somewhat mystifyingly, taken a two-and-a-half-hour hit Broadway musical and — hey presto! — stretched it into two two-hour-40-minute movies in hopes of a duo of smashes.You’re acutely aware of the doubled runtime in the genial first chapter, “Wicked: Part One,” which has the same number of songs as Act 1 of composer Stephen Schwartz’s show, but an extra 60 minutes of padding.Onstage, the “Wizard of Oz” prequel, which depicts the cackling Wicked Witch of the West as a misunderstood activist teen before Dorothy and Toto arrive, is fun and fizzy.Despite the Broadway production’s expensive effects and lavish design, the show succeeds more as a sweet boarding school comedy about friendship than a grand Ozian adventure. On-screen, however, director Jon M.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Chris Evans. If you see it, yule regret it. Our two hours of holiday drear begin with the title, which refers to the POTUS-like code name that the US government gives Santa Claus.

House of Gucci” was devoured by lions; the gauche “Napoleon” decapitated. And “The Last Duel” hemorrhaged gallons of blood (and millions of dollars).But he’s finally notched a win with “Gladiator II,” the enjoyable follow-up to his Best Picture Oscar winner from 2000 that’s not so much long-awaited as it is suddenly here.Honestly — who ever thought there’d be another “Gladiator”?Is it an essential continuation of the story of Russell Crowe’s fallen fighter Maximus? Eh, not really.

Joker: Folie a Deux” and “Megalopolis” played on thousands of screens around the country while Clint Eastwood’s engrossing new film about justice, “Juror No. 2,” will only grace 50. The swell courtroom drama could very well be the 94-year-old “Million Dollar Baby” director’s swan song, though he hasn’t said as much.

interview with Business Insider. “And the reality was the exact opposite happened.”Critics ripped the 2004 “Scooby Doo” sequel as a “terrible bore,” “mindless junk,” and “not Scooby-snack worthy.” It even won a Razzie Award for the “worst remake or sequel,” and Warner Bros.

The Irishman” and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” looks adequate as ever. But the actor’s rigid movement, Mr. Rogers demeanor and noticeably 68-year-old voice don’t fit a teenager.

six years and three wretched films, the unspeakably stupid comic-book movie series about a disturbed San Francisco newspaper columnist who becomes the host of a wise-cracking alien symbiote finally ends with “Venom: The Last Dance.”Channeling Donna Summer’s disco hit, when it’s bad, it’s so, so bad.Box office-wise, the trilogy has proved the crown jewel of what Wikipedia tells me is called “Sony’s Spider-Man Universe,” a Marvel outcast collection that also includes such gloomy garbage as “Madame Web” and “Morbius.”One of life’s great mysteries is that “Venom” has grossed more than $1 billion worldwide. There are people, especially in China, who actually like it.

In the kinky movie, Kidman plays a powerful businesswoman who risks her career and family life to have a passionate affair with her much younger intern, played by “Where the Crawdads Sing” actor Harris Dickinson, 28.The 57-year-old Oscar winner said performing sexual scenes with Dickinson and Antonio Banderas, who plays her husband in the movie, sometimes became too much to handle.“There were times when we were shooting where I was like, ‘I don’t want to orgasm any more,’” Kidman told The Sun.The “Big Little Lies” star took on the project to challenge herself, however the process brought moments that were simply too much for her to handle.In fact, Kidman admitted that she would often say, “don’t come near me” and “I hate doing this” during filming.“I don’t care if I am never touched again in my life!” she added.Even Dickinson revealed in a press conference that he would tell the cast and crew “go away for a second” when he needed space on set.The upcoming film’s steamy trailer is already giving moviegoers a glimpse of what’s to come with sexual tension spilling over the screen.“It was so present all the time for me that it was almost like a burnout,” Kidman said.This isn’t the first time Kidman has pushed the boundaries with sexual roles.She appeared in an orgy scene in the 1999 film “Eyes Wide Shut” with her then-husband Tom Cruise, and played a prostitute who faked an orgasm to Ewan McGregor’s character singing a song in 2001’s “Moulin Rouge.”“I’ve always been on a quest as an actor, I’m always going, where have I not been? And what can I explore as a human being?” she recently told People.Off the big screen, the mom of four is married to country superstar Keith Urban.

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.

“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.