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‘Clika’ Review: Dreaming of the Stage

This film about a fieldworker trying to make it in music offers a Mexican American spin on underdog dreamer movies like “8 Mile.”

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From a Wim Wenders masterpiece to a Stanley Tucci gem, these films all revolve around the possibility of fresh starts and new beginnings.

‘The Rip’ Review: Clean Cop, Dirty Cop

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck play grizzled cops looking at each other sideways in this Netflix crime thriller that has all the concepts but not…

‘Primate’ Review: Going Ape

This blood-splattered survival film about a rabies-infected chimpanzee is powered by unabashedly simple pleasures.

‘The Mother and the Bear’ Review: Dating for Her Daughter

This Korean Canadian soap opera is a moderately charming, if blandly earnest, drama about the dissonance and frictions between immigrant parents and their children

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The final column of the year looks at the end of things — the end of the world, the end of youth — along with…

‘The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants’ Review: Underwater Adventure

The latest installment to this entertainment juggernaut relies on a cheap, rote formula and easy gags to keep children engaged.

‘100 Nights of Hero’ Review: A Feminist Fairy Tale

This flawed but endearing film stars Emma Corrin as a protective maid and features Charli XCX as a sister with a secret.

‘Zootopia 2’ Review: Natural Habitats, Expanded

A sequel to the 2016 hit, this movie about an animal metropolis takes on an even messier social allegory than the first one, while building…

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For the Thanksgiving holiday, this month’s picks, including “Force Majeure” and “The Humans,” look at family togetherness in all its mundane glory.