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'Marlowe'

Add Liam Neeson to the impressive list of leading men who have played Raymond Chandler's laconic antihero gumshoe Philip Marlowe, a roster highlighted by Dick Powell in Murder, My Sweet (1944), Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946), Robert Montgomery in Lady in the Lake (1947), James Garner in Marlowe

'Magic Mike's Last Dance'

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'Magic Mike's Last Dance'

When the original Magic Mike was released in 2012, I distinctly remember NOT saying, "That was a lot of fun, but there's clearly so much more nuance and complexity to the Magic Mike saga, we're going to need at least a trilogy to tell the whole story!"  Not to disparage Steven

'Shrinking'

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'Shrinking'

As we eagerly await the sometime-this-spring drop of Ted Lasso Season Three, you can get your fix of comedy with heart in the new Apple TV+ series Shrinking, which covers a very different world but has the same winning formula of giving us irresistibly quirky characters who deliver quote-worthy dialogue

'House Party'

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'House Party'

The thing about house parties in the movies is, they're usually entertaining as hell for us as viewers, but for the participants, they often seem more stressful and chaotic and cringe-inducing than actual big-time fun fests. Whether it's The Great Gatsby or Sixteen Candles, Animal House or Superbad, Risky Business

'M3GAN'

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'M3GAN'

If I'm putting together a Mount Creepmore of the most terrifying Horror Movie Dolls of all time, here's the roster: Fats in Magic (1978) The clown doll in Poltergeist (1982) Chucky from Child's Play (1988) Annabelle from The Conjuring (2013)  The title character from the wickedly funny, cheerfully dark and fantastically preposterous M3GAN isn't quite

Best Movies of 2022

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Best Movies of 2022

We kick off our annual "Best Movies of the Year" tribute with the long and impressive list of films that fell short of making the cut but are well worth your time, and this year's group is one of the strongest in recent memory, including:  Avatar: The Way of Water, Violent

Top 10 TV series of 2022

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Top 10 TV series of 2022

When compiling the list of my favorite TV series of 2022, I've opted not to include continuation seasons in favor of spotlighting shows that debuted this year.   10. We Own This City (HBO and HBO Max) The creative team behind The Wire and many of the cast members of that seminal

'1923'

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'1923'

A series that premiered Dec. 18 on Paramount Network and Paramount+. Subsequent episodes begin streaming Jan. 1 on Paramount+. "Violence has always haunted this family ... where it doesn't follow, we hunt it down, we seek it." -- Voice-over narration in the pilot episode of 1923.  Truer words have never been spoken

'Avatar: The Way of Water'

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'Avatar: The Way of Water'

If I had two separate categories to judge James Cameron's motion-capture epic Avatar: The Way of Water, I'd give it four stars for Visuals and two and a half for Story, and I'm in charge of the math here, so I'm awarding three and a half stars to TWAW for

'Violent Night'

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'Violent Night'

After the resounding success of Die Hard in 1988, we saw a slew of variations on the theme of a lone antihero in a single setting saving the day, e.g., Under Siege was Die Hard on a ship, Speed was Die Hard on a bus, Executive Decision was Die Hard

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