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Craig Gillespie's 'Dumb Money' tells the story of the GameStop short squeeze

Craig Gillespie's dramedy Dumb Money chronicles the 2021 Wall Street phenomenon known as the GameStop short squeeze, which pitted small investors against major hedge funds.

September 15, 2023
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  • Bob Mondello
Gael García Bernal and El Hijo del Santo in <em>Cassandro</em>.

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  • Movie Reviews

Gael García Bernal crushes it (and others) as 'Cassandro,' lucha libre's queer pioneer

Bernal flirts and struts and gives one of the best performances of his career in a film inspired by the life of Mexican American professional wrestling star Saúl Armendáriz.

September 15, 2023
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  • Justin Chang
Ayo Edebiri as Josie and Rachel Sennott as PJ in <em>Bottoms.</em>

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  • Movies

'Bottoms' is an absurdist high school sex comedy that rages and soars

The cheeky black comedy stars Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri as teens who start a fight club to get laid.

August 22, 2023
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  • Aisha Harris
Hannah Gross, Sophia Lillis and Michael Cera play grown siblings in <em>The Adults.</em>

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  • Movie Reviews

Snark and sarcasm rule the roost in 'The Adults,' a comedy about grown siblings

Michael Cera plays a man who returns home to see his two sisters after three years apart. This squirmy film about adults who act like overgrown children might just break your heart.

August 17, 2023
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  • Justin Chang
Franz Rogowski as Tomas and Adèle Exarchopoulos as Agathe in <em>Passages</em>.

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  • Movie Reviews

'Passages' captures intimacy up-close — and the result is messy and mesmerizing

A narcissistic film director leaves his husband for a woman in Ira Sachs' new drama. But ending a marriage is rarely clean or easy — as this thrilling, tempestuous film proves.

August 08, 2023
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  • Justin Chang
<em>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem </em>is<em> </em>a fun and visually striking animated feature directed by Jeff Rowe.

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  • Movie Reviews

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles return, rebooted and reinvigorated, for 'Mutant Mayhem'

With a terrific voice cast and distinctive animation, Mutant Mayhem offers a fun and kinetic reset of a long-running franchise.

August 04, 2023
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  • Stephen Thompson
Sophie Wilde in <em>Talk to Me.</em>

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  • Movie Reviews

'Haunted Mansion' is a skip, but 'Talk to Me' is a real scare

Two films take on the horror of grief: While Disney's live-action comedy is neither funny nor frightening, the Australian horror-thriller about teenagers dabbling in the occult is terrifically creepy.

July 28, 2023
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  • Justin Chang
Based on one of America's most emblematic pieces of intellectual property, Greta Gerwig's <em>Barbie </em>starring Margot Robbie, above, was never going to be <em>just</em> a movie, because Barbie was never <em>just</em> a doll.

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'Barbie' review: Sometimes corporate propaganda can be fun as hell

Based on one of America's most emblematic pieces of intellectual property, Greta Gerwig's Barbie was never going to be just a movie, because Barbie was never just a doll.

July 21, 2023
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  • Aisha Harris
It's not every day that an exuberant comedy about a Mattel doll goes head-to-head with a brooding drama about the father of the atomic bomb, but both <em>Barbie</em> and<em> Oppenheimer</em> deliver. Above, Margot Robbie as Barbie and Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer.

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  • Movie Reviews

Go see 'Barbie' and 'Oppenheimer' in theaters — doubleheader or not is your call

It's not every day that an exuberant comedy about a Mattel doll goes head-to-head with a brooding drama about the father of the atomic bomb, but critic Justin Chang says both films deliver.

July 20, 2023
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  • Justin Chang
<em>Below the Belt</em> is a documentary about endometriosis.

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  • Health

Endometriosis, a painful and often overlooked disease, gets attention in a new film

Below the Belt highlights patients' stories and the push for new research dollars for this poorly understood disease. Here are seven surprising facts from the film.

July 17, 2023
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  • Andrea Muraskin
Tom Cruise is back, and doing his own stunts, in<em> Mission: Impossible <em>—</em> Dead Reckoning Part One.</em>

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  • Movie Reviews

Tom Cruise hangs on for dear life to his save-the-movies 'Mission'

Film critic Justin Chang doesn't know if Cruise can save the movies but he never gets tired of watching him try. Cruise does his own outrageous stunts in Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.

July 13, 2023
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  • Justin Chang
Deadeye (Sabrina Wu), left, Audrey (Ashley Park), Lolo (Sherry Cola) and Kat (Stephanie Hsu) in <em>Joy Ride.</em>

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  • Movie Reviews

Buckle up: This mile-a-minute 'Joy Ride' across China is a raunchy romp

It's hard not to get swept up in this journey — full of filthy one-liners and priceless sight gags. And the film pulls it off with a level of savvy about Asian culture still rarely seen in Hollywood.

July 06, 2023
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  • Justin Chang
Harrison Ford — who's about to turn 81 — stars again as the intrepid archaeologist in this fifth (and possibly final) adventure. It's directed not by Steven Spielberg, but by James Mangold.

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  • Movie Reviews

'Dial of Destiny' proves Indiana Jones' days of derring-do aren't quite derring-done

Harrison Ford — who's about to turn 81 — stars again as the intrepid archaeologist in this fifth (and possibly final) adventure. It's directed not by Steven Spielberg, but by James Mangold.

July 01, 2023
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  • Bob Mondello
Scarlett Johansson as Midge Campbell

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  • Movie Reviews

Wes Anderson has outdone himself with 'Asteroid City'

Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Hanks star in this play-within-a-TV-show-within-a-movie that takes place in a small 1950s desert town that's hosting an astronomy convention for kids.

June 16, 2023
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  • Justin Chang
Barry Allen/The Flash (Ezra Miller) is full of running gags.

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  • Movie Reviews

'The Flash' throws off intermittent sparks

The latest DC film seeks to reboot Warners' troubled cinematic universe. The script boasts solid jokes and knowing winks, but flat characterizations keep it from taking off.

June 15, 2023
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  • Glen Weldon
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