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Nicolas Cage&#39;s Dracula Steals the Show in Renfield
Renfield Is 'Mediocre.'
Nicolas Cage's Dracula Isn't
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Renfield Is 'Mediocre.' Nicolas Cage's Dracula Isn't

He's 'exactly what we wish for': critic

(Newser) - Nicolas Cage is back to his vampire roots . In Chris McKay's Renfield , Cage plays the mighty Dracula, while Nicholas Hoult plays his beleaguered and eponymous servant, whose duties include finding bodies for his boss to feed on. Only Renfield is a bit fed up with this toxic relationship, which...

John Wick &#39;Goes Out on Top&#39;
New John Wick
Is 'Actually Perfect'
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New John Wick Is 'Actually Perfect'

Critics and fans alike love Keanu Reeves in what may be the series finale

(Newser) - Many more bodies fall in John Wick: Chapter 4 , but is Wick's one of them? That's the question fans need answered as they flock to theaters to see Keanu Reeves' assassin punch, kick, and shoot his way past hoards of pursuers after the multimillion-dollar bounty on his head....

Critics Praise the &#39;Fabulous Beast&#39; of Cocaine Bear
Cocaine Bear Is a Surprising High
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Cocaine Bear Is a Surprising High

She 'rocks harder than each and every one of the snakes' in 'Snakes on a Plane'

(Newser) - There's an apex predator high on blow terrorizing the woods of Georgia in Elizabeth Banks' Cocaine Bear , which despite its outrageous premise has a warm 72% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes . Filmed in the early days of the pandemic, the horror-comedy is very loosely based on a 1985...

&#39;Rock-Bottom&#39; Flick Finds Winnie the Pooh Out for Blood
Winnie the Pooh Critics
Are Delightfully Spiteful
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Winnie the Pooh Critics Are Delightfully Spiteful

Critics pan Rhys Frake-Waterfield's depiction of beloved characters as 'lowest-hanging fruit'

(Newser) - Christopher Robin returns from five years of medical school to find the creatures of 100 Acre Wood transformed into blood-thirsty killers, first forced to eat Eeyore to stave off starvation and now bent on vengeance, in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey . The movie has critics cringing in horror, and...

What Critics Are Saying About 80 for Brady
What Critics Are Saying
About 80 for Brady
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What Critics Are Saying About 80 for Brady

Opinions vary from 'irresistible' to 'without much finesse'

(Newser) - Oscar winners Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, and Sally Field are transformed into Tom Brady superfans in 80 for Brady , Kyle Marvin's comedy about four older women who descend on the 2017 Super Bowl to support their beloved New England Patriots. Audiences are loving the film, loosely based...

Women Talking Is &#39;a Tour-de-Force in Every Sense&#39;
Women Talking Is a
'Murderer's Row of Talent'
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Women Talking Is a 'Murderer's Row of Talent'

Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews' novel offers an incredible cast, a complicated discussion

(Newser) - Three generations of women from a remote Mennonite community have a matter of hours to decide how to respond to brutal sexual assault denied by the colony's men in Sarah Polley's Women Talking , based on the 2018 novel by Miriam Toews, who also serves as screenwriter of the...

Hanks &#39;Adds Heart&#39; to A Man Called Otto
How Tom Hanks' Latest
Is Faring With Critics
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How Tom Hanks' Latest Is Faring With Critics

Audiences like 'A Man Called Otto' more

(Newser) - Tom Hanks stars as a widower with a grudge against the world who has his eyes opened by community in A Man Called Otto , based on Hannes Holm's Oscar-nominated 2016 Swedish film A Man Called Ove, which was itself based on Fredrik Backman's 2012 novel of the same...

The New Chucky Is a &#39;Mean-Girl Machine&#39;
Horror Film M3GAN Gives Us
a New 'Classic Character'
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Horror Film M3GAN Gives Us a New 'Classic Character'

Movie has a 95% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes

(Newser) - January is known as a dump month at the theater, with the perception that films released this month are destined for cinematic oblivion. According to critics, Gerard Johnstone's M3GAN , out Friday, is a clear exception. The PG-13 horror film—in which a roboticist (Allison Williams) enlists the help of...

Critics Pan &#39;One-Note&#39; Whitney Houston Biopic
Critics Pan 'One-Note'
Whitney Houston Biopic
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Critics Pan 'One-Note' Whitney Houston Biopic

Still, star Naomi Ackie wins praise for a 'magnetic' performance

(Newser) - Audiences are loving I Wanna Dance With Somebody, a film tracing Whitney Houston's superstar rise and fall, giving it a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes . Not so much critics, whose 48% rating officially falls in the "rotten" category. The film from director Kasi Lemmons (Harriet) and screenwriter Anthony...

What Critics Are Saying About Avatar 2
What Critics Are Saying
About Avatar 2
MOVIE REVIEW

What Critics Are Saying About Avatar 2

'You don’t feel like you're watching a movie so much as floating in one'

(Newser) - After a 13-year wait, James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water is here. Having lost his human body, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is now a renowned Na'vi warrior and father, whose family—including mate Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) and a human orphan —is forced from the Pandoran...

The Whale Is &#39;Heavy, Indeed&#39;
The Whale Is 'Heavy, Indeed'
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The Whale Is 'Heavy, Indeed'

Brendan Fraser stars as morbidly obese recluse

(Newser) - Brendan Fraser is being tipped for a best actor Oscar for his performance in The Whale, for which he donned a fatsuit to play Charlie, a morbidly obese English literature teacher whose eating got out of control after the death of his same-sex partner and who never leaves his apartment....

The Fabelmans Is a Spielberg Movie Like No Other
The Fabelmans Is a Spielberg
Movie Like No Other
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The Fabelmans Is a Spielberg Movie Like No Other

'Like life, it is hilarious at times, and pitifully sad at others'

(Newser) - In his long career, Steven Spielberg has taken audiences to many places and times, in movies from Jaws to Jurassic Park, E.T, Saving Private Ryan, and dozens more. Now, in The Fabelmans, the 75-year-old director is taking them somewhere new: The life of Steven Spielberg. The semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film...

What Critics Are Saying About the Black Panther Sequel
What Critics Are Saying About
the Black Panther Sequel
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What Critics Are Saying About the Black Panther Sequel

It's overstuffed, overlong, and somber, yet moving

(Newser) - The world didn't just lose Chadwick Boseman , Wakanda lost its King T'Challa , and both deaths are felt deeply in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever , which lands an 85% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes . Following T'Challa's death from an unnamed illness, his mother, Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett)...

Radcliffe&#39;s &#39;Zeal for Role&#39; of Weird Al Is Hard to Resist
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Has '2 Aces Up Its Sleeve'
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Has '2 Aces Up Its Sleeve'

Or so praises one critic

(Newser) - Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is a bit wacky. But what else would you expect from the parodist, who co-produced and co-wrote the film along with the director, Eric Appel, who produced a 2010 short that inspired it. Starring Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al, Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna, and...

Instantly Recognizable Stars Offer &#39;Instantly Forgettable&#39; Film
Clooney and Roberts'
Reunion Isn't So Memorable
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Clooney and Roberts' Reunion Isn't So Memorable

'Ticket to Paradise' reunites Julia Roberts, George Clooney, for better or worse

(Newser) - In reuniting George Clooney and Julia Roberts for their fifth movie together, Ticket to Paradise aims to resurrect the classic romantic comedy. Bickering exes David and Georgia, 20 years removed from their divorce, join forces to sabotage the wedding of their daughter Lily (Kaitlyn Dever), fearing that in marrying a...

Halloween Ends &#39;More With a Sizzle Than a Bang&#39;
Halloween Ends
With a Thud, Apparently
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Halloween Ends With a Thud, Apparently

One critic calls it 'a fitting farewell to Laurie Strode,' another calls it 'tedious'

(Newser) - Touted as Laurie Strode's last stand against Michael Myers, her slasher enemy of 44 years and 13 movies, Halloween Ends ... with a thud. That's according to critics who give the final installment in the David Gordon Green trilogy based on the original 1978 film a poor 47% rating...

What Critics Are Saying About Hocus Pocus 2
What Critics Are Saying
About Hocus Pocus 2
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What Critics Are Saying About Hocus Pocus 2

Most think the Disney sequel is goofy good fun

(Newser) - Disney Plus is now streaming Hocus Pocus 2 , a sequel to the 1993 original about three witches played by Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy. The same trio is back, and critics think fans will be pretty happy with the result—provided everyone keeps their expectations in check....

Pinocchio Is Dead Wood
Pinocchio Is Dead Wood
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Pinocchio Is Dead Wood

Critics say live-action remake with Tom Hanks lacks the spark of Disney's 1940 classic

(Newser) - If Pinocchio claimed that Disney's new part live-action, part-animated remake was getting universally positive reviews, his nose would get a lot longer. The Robert Zemeckis-directed movie currently has a score of 31% at Rotten Tomatoes and 41 at Metacritic . Critics—many of them using wood metaphors—say that while...

Jordan Peele&#39;s Latest Will &#39;Blow You Away&#39;
Jordan Peele's Latest
Will 'Blow You Away'
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Jordan Peele's Latest Will 'Blow You Away'

'Nope' is 'consistently surprising,' will leave you 'in awe,' critics say

(Newser) - Jordan Peele's third feature film is Nope, a story of Black horse trainers in Hollywood (siblings OJ and Emerald Haywood, played by Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer) who, after coming to suspect their father's death might have been caused by aliens lurking around their ranch, hope to make...

It&#39;s Netflix&#39;s Priciest Flick, Yet &#39;Should Be Better&#39;
Netflix's Priciest Movie
Is Getting Lousy Reviews
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Netflix's Priciest Movie Is Getting Lousy Reviews

'The Gray Man' takes from other action films, lacks 'a narrative engine,' critics say

(Newser) - Ryan Gosling returns to the big screen for the first time in years in The Gray Man , reportedly the most expensive movie Netflix has ever made. Based on the first in a series of books by Mark Greaney, it follows an off-the-books CIA assassin gone rogue. So did the reported...

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