This dramatic comedy about Beanie Babies, starring Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks and Sarah Snook, arrives at the tail end of a summer of corporate biopics.
Category: Movies
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‘The Beasts’ Review: Bad Neighbors
Class tensions and masculine power games abound in this engrossing rural thriller from Spain.
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‘Susie Searches’ Review: The Sleuth Is Out There
Kiersey Clemons plays an amateur detective with a true-crime podcast and a secret in this quirky mystery movie.
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‘Talk to Me’ Review: Letting the Wrong One In
A bereaved young woman falls under the spell of a dangerous artifact in this vibrant and poignant horror debut.
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‘The First Slam Dunk’ Review: Style Points
A popular sports manga about a Japanese high school basketball team vaults to the big screen in an exhilarating, gorgeous anime.
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‘Haunted Mansion’ Review: A Disney Ride to Nowhere Fun
Starring LaKeith Stanfield and Rosario Dawson, this movie plays like a feature-length ad for Disney’s theme-park attraction of the same name.
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Popcast (Deluxe): ‘Barbie,’ Jason Aldean’s Culture War and Drake’s Tour
Plus: Violent J in our 50 Rappers, 50 Stories project, new songs and new snacks.
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Bo Goldman, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter, Dies at 90
He was a struggling writer when he won an Academy Award for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” He won another for “Melvin and Howard.”
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‘Annihilation,’ ‘Support the Girls’ and More Streaming Gems
This month’s rundown of off-the-radar picks on your subscription streaming services includes indies of all stripes, plus three documentary explorations of our changing media landscape.
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How ‘Barbie’ Set Designers Brought Those Dreamhouses to Life
To make their Barbieland sets a reality, the movie’s production team embraced the surreal, going big on bright pinks and shrunken proportions.
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‘Barbie’ Director Greta Gerwig Discusses the Film’s Blockbuster Opening
“I think it was a particular ripple in the universe that allowed it to happen,” the director said on Tuesday of her highly anticipated movie making a staggering $162 million in its first weekend.