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Young Marsai Martin does 'Little' in a big way

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published by Barry Paris on April 12, 2019 - 12:00am

“Producer Will Packer brings an all-new perspective to the body-swap comedy,” according to Universal’s production notes for the movie at hand.

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Knightley shines brightly in problematic 'Aftermath'

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published by Barry Paris on April 5, 2019 - 12:00am

“There’s nothing left here,” says a British officer, of what used to be Hamburg, Germany. “The French got the wine, the Yanks got the view, we got the ruins.”

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Tim Burton's live-action 'Dumbo' lives up to Disney original

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published by Barry Paris on March 29, 2019 - 12:00am

I vividly remember, from my 1950s childhood, the mean kids taunting kids with big ears as “Dumbo!” Such was the staying power of Walt Disney’s ugly duckling tale of that miracle mammoth — that prodigious pachyderm — that soon-to-be-teenage mutant elephant.

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Jordan Peele's 'Us': Horrific, but no 'Get Out'

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published by Barry Paris on March 22, 2019 - 12:00am

Beachside vacations will never be the same for the Wilson family, not after the Night of the Living Dead African-Americans that director Jordan Peele has in store for them (and us) in “Us.”

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'Border' opens CMU International Film Festival

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published by Barry Paris on March 21, 2019 - 12:00am

If the goal of an international film festival is to push the envelope and expand our horizons, prepare to be pushed and expanded by this year’s lineup at Carnegie Mellon University, starting with the bizarre kickoff movie on Thursday.

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'Greta' a thriller with Chiller Theater shades

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published by Barry Paris on March 1, 2019 - 12:00am

Whatever happened to Greta Gustafsson?

If Garbo had made a late-career thriller, it — and she — might have looked much like her namesake entry hitting the screens today.

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Can stranded Mads Mikkelsen outsmart the elements in 'Arctic'?

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published by Barry Paris on February 22, 2019 - 12:00am

Now from the You Think You’ve Got Problems Dept. — as if special-ordered for our current meteorological deep freeze — comes an epic “Arctic” adventure.

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'Destroyer:' a satisfyingly twisted thriller overall

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published by Barry Paris on February 8, 2019 - 12:00am

It was the worst of times, and the worst of times — a tale of one City of Angels whose “then” and “now” are equally rotten for Detective Erin Bell. She is played by Nicole Kidman, virtually unrecognizable in both her past- and present-tense roles in “Destroyer,” from first to last unglamorous closeup: pale pallor, splotchy complexion, red-rimmed eyes, skinny-verging-on-emaciated frame.

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Peter Jackson's World War I doc 'They Shall Not Grow Old' breaks powerful new ground

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published by Barry Paris on February 1, 2019 - 12:00am

All was never quiet on the Western Front for long. The title of Erich Maria Remarque’s great novel about the Great War is bitterly ironic: Silence lulls its exhausted soldier hero into fatally reaching out from his trench for a butterfly.

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Oscar-nominated 'Cold War' is a powerful Polish love story

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published by Barry Paris on January 25, 2019 - 12:00am

Long after color cinematography became the norm, many of our finest films were still shot in “glorious black and white” — from “”Citizen Kane” and “Casablanca” in the 1940s down through “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Dr. Strangelove” in the ’60s, “Raging Bull” (1980), “Schindler’s List” (1993) — but precious few since, aside from “The Artist” (2011’s Oscar-winning best picture).

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