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Critics Really Don't Like Latest Big Fat Greek Wedding

Movie Isn't So Entertaining,
but the Reviews Are

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Sep 8, 2023 1:59 PM CDT

Movie Isn't So Entertaining, but the Reviews Are

Critics don't much like 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3'

(Newser) - Another My Big Fat Greek Wedding is upon us, this one the third in the movie series. Star Nia Vardolos (Toula Portokalos) also writes and directs, and familiar faces are back, including John Corbett (as Ian Miller). The problem is that most critics wish this installment stayed on the drawing...

Haunted Mansion:
a Disney Cash-In
Without Heart

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Jul 28, 2023 12:50 PM CDT

Haunted Mansion: a Disney Cash-In Without Heart

It 'ultimately exists to sell more tickets to Disney World,' writes one critic

(Newser) - Inspired by Disney's theme-park attraction of the same name, Haunted Mansion , a remake of the 2003 film starring Eddie Murphy, sees a single mother (Rosario Dawson) take ownership of a home occupied by various ghosts, which she attempts to banish with help from a medium (Tiffany Haddish), a priest...

What Critics Are Saying
About Oppenheimer

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Jul 21, 2023 10:40 AM CDT

What Critics Are Saying About Oppenheimer

It's 'a new film classic,' with standout performances from a few

(Newser) - You may know of J. Robert Oppenheimer as the father of the atomic bomb. But that's only one part of the theoretical physicist's story, told in an epic way in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer , out Friday. Based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherman's 2005 biography American ...

What Critics Are
Saying About Barbie

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Jul 21, 2023 8:42 AM CDT

What Critics Are Saying About Barbie

It's 'sparklingly original summer entertainment' and 'a feast for the eyes and ears'

(Newser) - For Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie), every day in Barbie Land is perfect, with the many Barbie versions living in matriarchal harmony. Then her continually arched feet go flat and she starts having thoughts about death. That sets her on a path to the Real World, where she learns that, unlike...

For Ford's Indy,
a 'Satisfying Goodbye'

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Jun 30, 2023 12:00 PM CDT

For Ford's Indy, a 'Satisfying Goodbye'

At 80, this 'top-notch action hero' can still 'run away with a movie'

(Newser) - For the fifth and apparently final time, Harrison Ford cracks the whip as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny , which jumps across time, following the iconic adventure hero as he chases a time-shifting artifact. At times digitally de-aged, Ford's Indy still manages to wow critics....

The Teen Sex Comedy Is Back

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Jun 23, 2023 11:32 AM CDT

The Teen Sex Comedy Is Back

Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman pair well in flick offering 'new twists' to the genre

(Newser) - Jennifer Lawrence says she's never read a funnier screenplay than the one for No Hard Feelings , Gene Stupnitsky's new R-rated comedy in which she stars as a broke woman who agrees to date an awkward and naive 19-year-old piano prodigy (Andrew Barth Feldman's character, Percy) in exchange...

It's 'the Rare Sequel That Dazzles as Much as the Original'

New Spider-Man Flick
a 'Classic' That 'Dazzles'

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Jun 2, 2023 11:26 AM CDT

New Spider-Man Flick a 'Classic' That 'Dazzles'

Artful 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' wins over audiences, critics alike

(Newser) - Expectations for the follow-up to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse were sky high, as evidenced by moviegoers flocking to theaters Thursday. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse had "the second best preview night ever for an animated movie" pulling in $16 million from 3,562 theaters, per Deadline . And audiences were not...

Blackberry Tale Is 'Irresistible'

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May 12, 2023 11:58 AM CDT

Blackberry Tale Is 'Irresistible'

Funny, docudrama-ish movie is about the world's first smartphone

(Newser) - The story of BlackBerry's rise and fall is as irresistible as the so-called CrackBerry was upon its debut in 1996, according to audiences and critics alike, who give the new BlackBerry film 94% and 98% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes respectively. Director and co-writer Matt Johnson also stars as Doug...

Renfield Is 'Mediocre.'
Nicolas Cage's Dracula Isn't

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Apr 14, 2023 1:35 PM CDT

Renfield Is 'Mediocre.' Nicolas Cage's Dracula Isn't

He's 'exactly what we wish for': critic

(Newser) - Nicolas Cage is back to his vampire roots . In Chris McKay's Renfield , Cage plays the mighty Dracula, while Nicholas Hoult plays his beleaguered and eponymous servant, whose duties include finding bodies for his boss to feed on. Only Renfield is a bit fed up with this toxic relationship, which...

New John Wick
Is 'Actually Perfect'

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Mar 24, 2023 10:53 AM CDT

New John Wick Is 'Actually Perfect'

Critics and fans alike love Keanu Reeves in what may be the series finale

(Newser) - Many more bodies fall in John Wick: Chapter 4 , but is Wick's one of them? That's the question fans need answered as they flock to theaters to see Keanu Reeves' assassin punch, kick, and shoot his way past hoards of pursuers after the multimillion-dollar bounty on his head....

Cocaine Bear Is a Surprising High

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Feb 24, 2023 10:57 AM CST

Cocaine Bear Is a Surprising High

She 'rocks harder than each and every one of the snakes' in 'Snakes on a Plane'

(Newser) - There's an apex predator high on blow terrorizing the woods of Georgia in Elizabeth Banks' Cocaine Bear , which despite its outrageous premise has a warm 72% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes . Filmed in the early days of the pandemic, the horror-comedy is very loosely based on a 1985...

Winnie the Pooh Critics
Are Delightfully Spiteful

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Feb 17, 2023 11:23 AM CST

Winnie the Pooh Critics Are Delightfully Spiteful

Critics pan Rhys Frake-Waterfield's depiction of beloved characters as 'lowest-hanging fruit'

(Newser) - Christopher Robin returns from five years of medical school to find the creatures of 100 Acre Wood transformed into blood-thirsty killers, first forced to eat Eeyore to stave off starvation and now bent on vengeance, in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey . The movie has critics cringing in horror, and...

What Critics Are Saying
About 80 for Brady

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Feb 3, 2023 11:05 AM CST

What Critics Are Saying About 80 for Brady

Opinions vary from 'irresistible' to 'without much finesse'

(Newser) - Oscar winners Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, and Sally Field are transformed into Tom Brady superfans in 80 for Brady , Kyle Marvin's comedy about four older women who descend on the 2017 Super Bowl to support their beloved New England Patriots. Audiences are loving the film, loosely based...

Women Talking Is a
'Murderer's Row of Talent'

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Jan 20, 2023 11:46 AM CST

Women Talking Is a 'Murderer's Row of Talent'

Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews' novel offers an incredible cast, a complicated discussion

(Newser) - Three generations of women from a remote Mennonite community have a matter of hours to decide how to respond to brutal sexual assault denied by the colony's men in Sarah Polley's Women Talking , based on the 2018 novel by Miriam Toews, who also serves as screenwriter of the...

How Tom Hanks' Latest
Is Faring With Critics

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Jan 13, 2023 12:36 PM CST

How Tom Hanks' Latest Is Faring With Critics

Audiences like 'A Man Called Otto' more

(Newser) - Tom Hanks stars as a widower with a grudge against the world who has his eyes opened by community in A Man Called Otto , based on Hannes Holm's Oscar-nominated 2016 Swedish film A Man Called Ove, which was itself based on Fredrik Backman's 2012 novel of the same...

Horror Film M3GAN Gives Us
a New 'Classic Character'

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Jan 6, 2023 10:16 AM CST

Horror Film M3GAN Gives Us a New 'Classic Character'

Movie has a 95% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes

(Newser) - January is known as a dump month at the theater, with the perception that films released this month are destined for cinematic oblivion. According to critics, Gerard Johnstone's M3GAN , out Friday, is a clear exception. The PG-13 horror film—in which a roboticist (Allison Williams) enlists the help of...

Critics Pan 'One-Note'
Whitney Houston Biopic

MOVIE REVIEW

Dec 23, 2022 10:30 AM CST

Critics Pan 'One-Note' Whitney Houston Biopic

Still, star Naomi Ackie wins praise for a 'magnetic' performance

(Newser) - Audiences are loving I Wanna Dance With Somebody, a film tracing Whitney Houston's superstar rise and fall, giving it a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes . Not so much critics, whose 48% rating officially falls in the "rotten" category. The film from director Kasi Lemmons (Harriet) and screenwriter Anthony...

What Critics Are Saying
About Avatar 2

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Dec 16, 2022 9:46 AM CST

What Critics Are Saying About Avatar 2

'You don’t feel like you're watching a movie so much as floating in one'

(Newser) - After a 13-year wait, James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water is here. Having lost his human body, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is now a renowned Na'vi warrior and father, whose family—including mate Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) and a human orphan —is forced from the Pandoran...

The Whale Is 'Heavy, Indeed'

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Dec 9, 2022 1:00 PM CST

The Whale Is 'Heavy, Indeed'

Brendan Fraser stars as morbidly obese recluse

(Newser) - Brendan Fraser is being tipped for a best actor Oscar for his performance in The Whale, for which he donned a fatsuit to play Charlie, a morbidly obese English literature teacher whose eating got out of control after the death of his same-sex partner and who never leaves his apartment....

The Fabelmans Is a Spielberg
Movie Like No Other

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Nov 18, 2022 12:17 PM CST

The Fabelmans Is a Spielberg Movie Like No Other

'Like life, it is hilarious at times, and pitifully sad at others'

(Newser) - In his long career, Steven Spielberg has taken audiences to many places and times, in movies from Jaws to Jurassic Park, E.T, Saving Private Ryan, and dozens more. Now, in The Fabelmans, the 75-year-old director is taking them somewhere new: The life of Steven Spielberg. The semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film...