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‘Old’ review: On this beach, you can leave the sunscreen back at the hotel

July 22, 2021 at 11:07 a.m.

The aging process becomes a happily manageable time commitment in "Old," the 14th feature from director M. Night Shyamalan and another one of his not-bad movies, in between his quite...

Reid Miller and Mark Wahlberg star in the fact-based drama "Joe Bell," about a father's cross-country, anti-bullying crusade.

Review: Is ‘Joe Bell’ Mark Wahlberg’s personal hate-crime atonement project?

July 22, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

Bullying and intolerance can have a deadly effect," Mark Wahlberg says at the beginning of "Joe Bell," in theaters Friday. The title character of this movie, originally titled "Good Joe...

This image released by Apple TV+ shows Cecily Stron, background left, and Keegan-Michael Key in a scene from "Schmigadoon!," premiering Friday. (Apple TV+ via AP)

‘Schmigadoon!’ review: Apple TV+, Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key take a bite out of Broadway, with love

July 21, 2021 at 2:03 p.m.

Now streaming on Apple TV+, the six-episode "Schmigadoon!" starts out well enough as a one-joke idea that could go either way. Then, happily, it goes the right way — beyond...

Anthony Bourdain in Detroit in January 2009.

Commentary: ‘Roadrunner’ uses AI to create an Anthony Bourdain soundalike. Here’s why that’s ethically squishy

July 19, 2021 at 11:32 a.m.

With movies, we often wonder: Can I believe my own eyes? Did I just see what I think I saw? With documentaries, we sometimes ask the same questions, but the...

‘Summertime’ review: LA stories and dreams in pockets, guided by spoken-word poetry and the director of ‘Blindspotting’

July 16, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

Director Carlos López Estrada's "Summertime" creates a mosaic of pre-COVID Los Angeles (it was filmed in 2019) through words, action, dance and music. The usual movie musical building blocks, in...

From Focus Features, "Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain" explores the turbulent life and 2018 suicide of the chef, global traveler and insatiable adventurer.

‘Roadrunner’ review: The life and death of Anthony Bourdain, served up in style

July 15, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

There's a key moment right at the end of director Morgan Neville's Anthony Bourdain documentary "Roadrunner," opening Friday, when the filmmaker glances on global pop culture's live-fast, die-young, leave-a-good-looking-bestseller habit...

In 'Space Jam: A New Legacy,' LeBron James and Bugs Bunny take on Don Cheadle's goon squad.

‘Space Jam 2’ review: LeBron’s in for Michael Jordan, and the audience is in for a pretty strange sequel

July 14, 2021 at 2:11 p.m.

Google around for anything to do with "Space Jam: A New Legacy," and the insidious search engine autofills with what all the cool algorithms are asking: "Is Pennywise in 'Space...

A U.S. flag hangs from a tree branch as people watch a Looney Tunes animated short during the Chicago Film Society's outdoor screening from their archival collection of 16mm oddities outside the Comfort Station in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood on July 7, 2021.

Comfort Station is the small Tudor building in Logan Square with a century of Chicago history — first as a restroom, now an arts space and outdoor theater

July 15, 2021 at 8:07 a.m.

A couple of Wednesdays ago, I spent a couple of hours loitering outside a public restroom facility. Dozens of us did. Before you call the cops, let me explain. I...

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson attends a special screening of "Summer of Soul" at The Richard Rodgers Amphitheater at Marcus Garvey Park on Saturday, June 19, 2021, in New York.

Talking to ‘Summer of Soul’ movie maestro Questlove: How do we tell the concert history without being Captain Obvious?

July 14, 2021 at 4:03 p.m.

Now in theaters and on Hulu, "Summer of Soul" is two hours of amazing. It's the feature debut of a 50-year-old musician, working from rarely seen videotapes of six different...

We've got mayhem to do: Scarlett Johansson stars in "Black Widow," premiering in theaters July 8 and streaming on Disney Plus July 9.

‘Black Widow’ review: A Marvel showcase for Scarlett Johansson’s Russian super-assassin. And her kid sister!

July 8, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

On the whole I'd rather watch a few more episodes of "Loki." But "Black Widow" is pretty good Marvel, with an excellent cast, the usual generic third-act destruction and a...

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