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Wish Upon - This thoroughly routine horror pic will at least keep tolerant fans of the genre happy enough for an hour and a half. Squishy-faced teen Clare (King), whose dad...

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Captain Underpants/Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie - When one of the key characters in this deliberately low-to-no-taste animated comedy – the evil chemistry professor aspiring to be a world dominator – is named ‘P. P....

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House, The - If Ferrell had managed to appear even one fifth as amusing as he appears to believe he is (and, presumably, Will Ferrell p.g.a, one of the movie’s fifteen producers,...

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Despicable Me 3 - It’s a basic Hollywood commercial commandment.

If at first you succeed, then serve up a sequel.

Then, if audiences register profitable approval at the box office,...

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It Comes at Night - Another week, another horror movie: Cinema’s most resilient genre rides again, sure of a dedicated audience of shockfilm addicts and, then all too often, destined for...

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Death of Louis XIV, The - Léaud, superbly moving here as the dying French monarch, has appeared in over 90 movies.

That said, however, it’s my guess that only the most devoted (obsessive?)...

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Big Sick, The - This true-life cross-cultural romance laced with both comedy and drama has considerable charm and contains some treasurable exchanges. But it does drag on and on,...

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Dunkirk (IMAX) - A big-scale, blood-stirring account of the evacuation of some 300,000 Allied soldiers from the beaches of the French port of Dunkirk to which they had been driven by the...

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