Bob Mondello
Stories
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Jesse Eisenberg’s 'A Real Pain' is a touching comedy based on his own family’s history
Jesse Eisenberg has written, directed and starred in a film based loosely on his own family, with a story about two cousins visiting the former home in Poland of their grandparents.
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'Conclave' is a potboiler that starts bubbling in its opening moments
Ralph Fiennes is tasked with the election of a new pope in director Edward Berger's lush intellectual thriller, Conclave, based on the pulpy 2016 novel by Robert Harris.
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Palme d’Or winner ‘Anora’ is a strip club Cinderella story
Sean Baker's Palme d'Or-winning comedy Anora is a Cinderella story of sorts, with a standout performance by Mikey Madison as the title character.
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A pair of new films take laughter both theatrically and seriously
Joker: Folie A Deux is a musical follow-up to Joaquin Phoenix's turn as DC Comics villain Joker, this time with Lady Gaga; and Saturday Night dramatizes the very first show of what would become SNL.
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A stranded machine transforms through motherhood in Chris Sanders' 'Wild Robot'
A shipwrecked robot named Roz is accidentally activated by the wild animals on an otherwise uninhabited island in The Wild Robot, an animated adventure from the makers of How to Train Your Dragon.
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Maggie Smith, an acting legend of the stage and screen, has died at 89
Oscar, Emmy and Tony winning actress Maggie Smith, who played everything from ingenues in Shakespeare to Harry Potter's Prof. McGonagall and the dowager countess in Downton Abbey, has died at 89.
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Arts & Life
Sharp tongued, indomitable, and beloved actress Dame Maggie Smith, dies at 89
Oscar, Emmy, and Tony-winning actress Maggie Smith played everything from wistful ingenues in Shakespeare to Harry Potter's Prof. McGonagall and the Dowager Countess in Downton Abbey.
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Arts & Life
In 'My Old Ass,' a teen is visited by her 39-year-old self during a mushroom trip
A teen meets her wisecracking, advice-dispensing 39-year-old self on a mushroom trip in Megan Park's coming-of-age rom-com My Old Ass.
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Arts & Life
Movie critics dish it out, but can they take it? Ian McKellen stars in 'The Critic'
Sometimes, the movies strike back at critics. In the new film The Critic, Ian McKellen stars as a scurrilous theater scribe, the latest in a long history of buffoons and bitter curmudgeons.
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Beetlejuice is back! But is the new film any good?
Michael Keaton, Catherine O'Hara, and Winona Ryder return in a Beetlejuice sequel 34 years in the making. It's called Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Don't say it a third time.
