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Cinerama Dome Among ArcLight, Pacific Theaters To Close Due To Pandemic Losses
ArcLight Cinemas and Pacific Theaters said late Monday they are ceasing operations, closing all of their roughly 300 screens mostly found in California. →
Emerald Fennell’s ‘Promising Young Woman’ Doesn’t Let Anyone Off The Hook
by Sam Briger In the dark comedy Promising Young Woman, Cassie (Carey Mulligan) works at a coffee shop by day, →
For Actor-Activist Sacha Baron Cohen, Being Called A ‘Bouffon’ Is A Good Thing
by Elizabeth Blair British actor and satirist Sacha Baron Cohen is having a very nice year, as his fictional character →
‘Soul’ Creators On Passion, Purpose And Realizing You’re ‘Enough’
by Terry Gross The Oscar-nominated movie Soul tackles passion, purpose and the meaning of life — topics that aren’t usually →
Lara Jean Says Goodbye In ‘To All The Boys: Always And Forever’
by Linda Holmes, Kiana Fitzgerald, and E. Alex Jung In 2018, To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before was a →
Director Shaka King’s Journey From ‘Newlyweeds’ To ‘The Black Messiah’
by Andrew Limbong As the current chairman of the Black Panther Party Cubs, Fred Hampton, Jr. was guarded →
Justin Timberlake Hopes ‘Palmer’ Will ‘Open Eyes, And Open Ears, And Open Hearts’
by Scott Simon In the new film Palmer, Justin Timberlake plays Eddie, a former high school football star who comes back to his Louisiana hometown after more than a decade in prison. As he pieces together his new life, Eddie moves in with his grandmother and befriends her young neighbor, a boy named Sam. Sam is funny →
Polish Thriller ‘Spoor’ Is A Pulpy Murder Story — And A Utopian Fable
by John Powers During the Cold War, the movies we saw from the Eastern bloc were steeped in →
‘Soul’ Is A Jazzy, Joyful Celebration Of Life
by Linda Holmes, Stephen Thompson, Aisha Harris and Glen Weldon In Disney and Pixar’s Soul, a jazz musician voiced by Jamie Foxx falls down a manhole and finds himself teetering between life and the afterlife. He winds up on a New York adventure with a wandering soul, voiced by Tina Fey, who needs help getting ready →