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‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu’ makes a clumsy big-screen debut

‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu’ makes a clumsy big-screen debut

It’s been nearly seven years since there was a new “Star Wars” movie released in theaters, and there are lots of ways to do it. “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu,” a disjointed off-ramp that lacks the scale and ambition of its sisters, fails the task.

 
Boots Riley’s ‘I Love Boosters’ is a wild, surrealist social satire

Boots Riley’s ‘I Love Boosters’ is a wild, surrealist social satire

Boots Riley holds nothing back in his audacious, surrealist social satire “I Love Boosters.” The film is a go-for-broke expression of wild imagination and social consciousness that’s impossible not to admire for its wacky, bold vision, with teleporting, high-fashion snobbery and pyramid schemes.

 
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Rami Malek explores art, love and death in Ira Sachs' Cannes entry 'The Man I Love'

Rami Malek explores art, love and death in Ira Sachs' Cannes entry 'The Man I Love'

In Ira Sachs’ 1980s-set drama “The Man I Love,” Rami Malek finds the most well-tailored role since his Oscar-winning portrayal of Freddie Mercury in “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

 
Tool or threat? Cannes Film Festival grapples with the rise of AI

Tool or threat? Cannes Film Festival grapples with the rise of AI

The Cannes Film Festival can function like a global water cooler for movies, with prevailing issues and anxieties tending to come to the surface at the event. This year, the topic du jour is artificial intelligence.

 
In a low period for comedy films, these were the best of the last decade

In a low period for comedy films, these were the best of the last decade

In the past decade, comedies have largely become the stuff of cult: little seen at release but rediscovered on streaming or elsewhere. So here are our picks for the best of the last 10 years.

 
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What to stream: John Krasinski, ‘Ladies First,’ Rod Stewart, Brooke Shields and a ‘Lego Batman’ game

What to stream: John Krasinski, ‘Ladies First,’ Rod Stewart, Brooke Shields and a ‘Lego Batman’ game

John Krasinski returning as Jack Ryan in “Jack Ryan: Ghost War” for Prime Video and “Stranger Things” masterminds the Duffer Brothers producing a Netflix show in which a retirement community teams up to battle monsters are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

 
‘Michael’ reclaims the top box office spot in its 4th weekend

‘Michael’ reclaims the top box office spot in its 4th weekend

After two weeks trailing “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” the Michael Jackson biopic “Michael” reclaimed the No. 1 spot at the North American box office with $26.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

 

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