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‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Review: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt Turn Up for Frothy Sequel Stuffed With One-Liners and Mixed Messages
Stanley Tucci also returns two decades after David Frankel’s hit about an outsider at a glossy fashion magazine run by a witheringly icy editor-in-chief.
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‘Deep Water’ Review: A Stoical Aaron Eckhart Leads Renny Harlin’s Twofer of Airplane Disaster Movie and Sharksploitation Schlockbuster
Ben Kingsley also stars in a survival thriller about a ditched commercial airline flight that unleashes fresh hell when the surviving passengers become a mako buffet.
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‘Apex’ Review: Charlize Theron Faces Punishing Rock Climbs, Treacherous Rapids and Psychotic Taron Egerton in Crackling Survival Thriller
An adrenaline junkie’s Australian wilderness journey turns ugly when she’s hunted by a serial killer in Baltasar Kormákur’s Netflix original, also featuring Eric Bana.
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‘Michael’ Review: Antoine Fuqua’s Fan-Friendly, Family-Sanctioned Michael Jackson Bio-Drama Is Sanitized but More Soulful Than You Might Expect
Jaafar Jackson plays his uncle, the King of Pop, with Colman Domingo as the abusive father who exploited him and Nia Long as his protective mother.
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‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’ Review: Jack Reynor and Laia Costa Grapple With Ancient Evil and Grand Guignol Gore in Visceral Family Nightmare
The latest reinvention of the Egyptian funerary legend slaps the embalming bandages on an abducted American girl whose return home to Albuquerque is no blissful reunion.
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‘The Fear of 13’ Theater Review: Adrien Brody Brings Unquestionable Commitment to a Death Row Drama Dulled by Pedestrian Writing
Tessa Thompson also stars in David Cromer’s production of the Lindsey Ferrentino play about the life and legal travails of an unjustly convicted man, based on a 2015 documentary.
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‘Mother Mary’ Review: Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel Get All Worked Up Over Nothing in Vapid Phantasmagoria About Creative Combustion
David Lowery’s genre-defying drama explores the fraught history of an iconic pop star and the architect behind her image, with music by Jack Antonoff, Charli XCX and FKA twigs.
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‘Thrash’ Review: Phoebe Dynevor Gives Birth in Floodwaters Teeming With Sharks in Preposterous but Enjoyable Netflix Pulp
Apex predators ignore the evacuation order in Tommy Wirkola’s climate change disaster thriller, also starring Whitney Peak and Djimon Hounsou.
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‘Death of a Salesman’ Theater Review: Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf Illuminate the Tragedy of an Ordinary Man in Ageless Arthur Miller Classic
Christopher Abbott and Ben Ahlers also star in Joe Mantello’s Broadway revival of the 1949 landmark American drama, which remains sadly relevant more than 75 years later.
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‘Outcome’ Review: Keanu Reeves Brings Sincerity to Jonah Hill’s Otherwise Glibly Unfunny Comedy About a Hollywood Star in Crisis
Cameron Diaz, Matt Bomer and Martin Scorsese also appear in the Apple TV inside-showbiz satire, in which an extortion scheme prompts a fretful apology tour.
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‘Trial of Hein’ Review: Rigorous German Homecoming Drama Is a Haunting Enigma of Memory and Identity
A jury prize winner in the Teddy Awards competition for outstanding queer films in Berlin, Kai Stänicke's first feature tracks the title character’s uneasy return to his North Sea island roots.
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‘Hokum’ Review: Adam Scott Gets Spooked in Haunted Irish Hotel Horror Neither Completely Ho-Hum Nor Wholly Satisfying
Damian McCarthy’s tale books an American novelist into an inn with a witch in the honeymoon suite, shady staff and a forest-dwelling eccentric who chugs a magic mushroom potion.
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