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What Critics Are Saying
About Demi Moore's New Film

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Sep 20, 2024 11:39 AM CDT

What Critics Are Saying About Demi Moore's New Film

She has 'role of a lifetime' in body-horror movie The Substance , about an aging Hollywood star

(Newser) - Demi Moore has what more than one critic calls "the role of a lifetime" in The Substance . She plays Elisabeth Sparks, a Hollywood celebrity who hosts an aerobics show and gets fired by a sleazy network exec on her 50th birthday and is offered a mysterious substance that allows...

Beetlejuice's Return
Fails to Live Up to the Hype

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Sep 6, 2024 10:42 AM CDT

Beetlejuice's Return Fails to Live Up to the Hype

Michael Keaton is great, as are most cast members, but something's missing, critics say

(Newser) - If you haven't seen Tim Burton's Beetlejuice of 1988, go back and watch it because critics say it's significantly better than Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice of 2024, with a 68% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes . Returning are Michael Keaton as the wild-haired titular demon and Winona Ryder...

Critics Want to
Impeach Reagan

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Aug 30, 2024 10:54 AM CDT

Critics Want to Impeach Reagan

'Hagiography' is 'a historic dud'

(Newser) - The release of Ronald Reagan biopic Reagan was delayed for years—and many critics would have preferred to see it left on the shelf indefinitely. The movie, which stars Dennis Quaid as the former Republican president, currently has a rating of just 25% on Rotten Tomatoes , with many reviewers describing...

A Beloved Novel Becomes
a Less-Loved Movie

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Aug 9, 2024 11:03 AM CDT

A Beloved Novel Becomes a Less-Loved Movie

It Ends With Us stars Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni impress most fans, leave some critics 'horrified'

(Newser) - Blake Lively's Lily Bloom finds herself in a love triangle, torn between her first love and her current partner, in It Ends With Us, the film adaptation of a Colleen Hoover novel from director Justin Baldoni, who also stars as passionate yet aggressive love interest Ryle. Audiences, sure to...

Marvel Back in Form With Deadpool & Wolverine

Deadpool & Wolverine:
Messy, 'Unadulterated Fun'

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Jul 26, 2024 11:11 AM CDT

Deadpool & Wolverine: Messy, 'Unadulterated Fun'

Sequel has some issues, but it's 'more electric—more alive—than any MCU installment in years.'

(Newser) - Six years after the events of Deadpool 2, Wade Wilson is living a quiet life when he learns that life might end. Threatened by the Time Variance Authority, which controls alternate realities and timelines, Wilson's Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) sets out to save the world and resurrect Wolverine (Hugh Jackman)...

Megalopolis Gets 7-Minute
Ovation at Cannes

May 17, 2024 10:44 AM CDT

Megalopolis Gets 7-Minute Ovation at Cannes

Critics are split on long-awaited Coppola epic

(Newser) - Francis Ford Coppola's epic Megalopolis, more than 40 years in the making , made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday and while reactions were mixed, there was a lot of love for the director. Variety reports that the 85-year-old received a four-minute standing ovation when he entered...

What Critics Think About Dakota Johnson's Spidey Film

The Movie Is Awful, but
Dakota 'Transcends' It

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Feb 16, 2024 10:35 AM CST

The Movie Is Awful, but Dakota 'Transcends' It

'Madame Web' is mostly getting savaged in reviews, though not the star herself

(Newser) - The critics do not like Madame Web , the latest entry in the Spider-Man chronicles. This one stars Dakota Johnson as Cassie Web, a little-known character from the Marvel comics. The movie is getting an anemic 13% positive rating at Rotten Tomatoes , though fans are more sympathetic at 55%. One point...

Nanjiani: I Sought Therapy
After Crappy Film Reviews

Feb 8, 2024 11:10 AM CST

Nanjiani: I Sought Therapy After Crappy Film Reviews

'Eternals' star says it was 'very, very tough' to hear criticism of the 2021 Marvel movie

(Newser) - When Kumail Nanjiani shot 2021's Eternals, alongside big names like Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, and Barry Keoghan, he had a blast. "I had the best time doing that movie, and I realized this is how work should feel like," the 45-year-old Silicon Valley star said Tuesday on...

What Critics Think About
Clooney's Boys in the Boat

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Dec 25, 2023 10:10 AM CST

What Critics Think About Clooney's Boys in the Boat

They're a wee bit bored, frankly, though audiences appear to love the true-life tale

(Newser) - A new film directed by George Clooney has an interesting dynamic going on—audiences seem to love The Boys in the Boat (with a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes ), while critics are underwhelmed (56%). The movie, out Christmas Day, retells the true story of the University of Washington rowing...

What Critics Are Saying
About Ridley Scott's Napoleon

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Nov 23, 2023 10:10 AM CST

What Critics Are Saying About Ridley Scott's Napoleon

One critic finds Joaquin Phoenix riveting, another 'expressionless'

(Newser) - From the beheading of Marie Antoinette through the Reign of Terror and on to the Battle of Waterloo, Ridley Scott's Napoleon , hitting theaters Thursday before heading to Apple TV+, charts the dramatic rise of French military commander and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, who is often regarded as a military genius....

A Star Is Born in
Hunger Games Prequel

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Nov 17, 2023 1:20 PM CST

A Star Is Born in Hunger Games Prequel

Tom Blyth impresses as a young Coriolanus Snow, opposite Rachel Zegler's tribute

(Newser) - Sixty-four years before Katniss Everdeen volunteers as tribute in the 74th annual Hunger Games, marking the beginning of the end for Panem President Coriolanus Snow, a teenage "Corio" is assigned to mentor another District 12 tribute in the 10th Hunger Games. His subsequent rise to power is told in...

DiCaprio Is the Star,
but She Is a 'Revelation'

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Oct 20, 2023 1:00 PM CDT

DiCaprio Is the Star, but She Is a 'Revelation'

Martin Scorsese's latest is getting strong reviews, as is Lily Gladstone

(Newser) - One of the most highly anticipated movies in a while is out, and Killers of the Flower Moon was apparently worth the wait. Director Martin Scorsese reunites with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro to tell the story of the 1920s murders of members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma....

Movie Isn't So Entertaining,
but the Reviews Are

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Sep 8, 2023 1:59 PM CDT

Movie Isn't So Entertaining, but the Reviews Are

Critics don't much like 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3'

(Newser) - Another My Big Fat Greek Wedding is upon us, this one the third in the movie series. Star Nia Vardolos (Toula Portokalos) also writes and directs, and familiar faces are back, including John Corbett (as Ian Miller). The problem is that most critics wish this installment stayed on the drawing...

Haunted Mansion:
a Disney Cash-In
Without Heart

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Jul 28, 2023 12:50 PM CDT

Haunted Mansion: a Disney Cash-In Without Heart

It 'ultimately exists to sell more tickets to Disney World,' writes one critic

(Newser) - Inspired by Disney's theme-park attraction of the same name, Haunted Mansion , a remake of the 2003 film starring Eddie Murphy, sees a single mother (Rosario Dawson) take ownership of a home occupied by various ghosts, which she attempts to banish with help from a medium (Tiffany Haddish), a priest...

What Critics Are Saying
About Oppenheimer

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Jul 21, 2023 10:40 AM CDT

What Critics Are Saying About Oppenheimer

It's 'a new film classic,' with standout performances from a few

(Newser) - You may know of J. Robert Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But that's only one part of the theoretical physicist's story, told in an epic way in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer , out Friday. Based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherman's 2005 biography American ...

What Critics Are
Saying About Barbie

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Jul 21, 2023 8:42 AM CDT

What Critics Are Saying About Barbie

It's 'sparklingly original summer entertainment' and 'a feast for the eyes and ears'

(Newser) - For Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie), every day in Barbie Land is perfect, with the many Barbie versions living in matriarchal harmony. Then her continually arched feet go flat and she starts having thoughts about death. That sets her on a path to the Real World, where she learns that, unlike...

For Ford's Indy,
a 'Satisfying Goodbye'

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Jun 30, 2023 12:00 PM CDT

For Ford's Indy, a 'Satisfying Goodbye'

At 80, this 'top-notch action hero' can still 'run away with a movie'

(Newser) - For the fifth and apparently final time, Harrison Ford cracks the whip as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny , which jumps across time, following the iconic adventure hero as he chases a time-shifting artifact. At times digitally de-aged, Ford's Indy still manages to wow critics....

The Teen Sex Comedy Is Back

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Jun 23, 2023 11:32 AM CDT

The Teen Sex Comedy Is Back

Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman pair well in flick offering 'new twists' to the genre

(Newser) - Jennifer Lawrence says she's never read a funnier screenplay than the one for No Hard Feelings , Gene Stupnitsky's new R-rated comedy in which she stars as a broke woman who agrees to date an awkward and naive 19-year-old piano prodigy (Andrew Barth Feldman's character, Percy) in exchange...

New Spider-Man Flick
a 'Classic' That 'Dazzles'

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Jun 2, 2023 11:26 AM CDT

New Spider-Man Flick a 'Classic' That 'Dazzles'

Artful 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' wins over audiences, critics alike

(Newser) - Expectations for the follow-up to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse were sky high, as evidenced by moviegoers flocking to theaters Thursday. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse had "the second best preview night ever for an animated movie" pulling in $16 million from 3,562 theaters, per Deadline . And audiences were not...

Blackberry Tale Is 'Irresistible'

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May 12, 2023 11:58 AM CDT

Blackberry Tale Is 'Irresistible'

Funny, docudrama-ish movie is about the world's first smartphone

(Newser) - The story of BlackBerry's rise and fall is as irresistible as the so-called CrackBerry was upon its debut in 1996, according to audiences and critics alike, who give the new BlackBerry film 94% and 98% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes respectively. Director and co-writer Matt Johnson also stars as Doug...