‘The Curse of La Llorona’ Review: California Freakin’, With Scares, Laughs and a Murderous Ghost
Linda Cardellini plays a widow with two children and a curse in this amusing, old-fashioned ghost story, the latest addition to the “Conjuring” series.
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Terry Gilliam’s long-deferred tribute to Cervantes’s knight errant finally arrives, starring Jonathan Pryce and Adam Driver.
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Fox’s faith-based “Breakthrough,” with Chrissy Metz as a mother who prays for her son’s seemingly impossible medical recovery, came in third.
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Julia Hart’s wonderfully strange dystopian drama pits three gifted black women against a dried-up world and a hostile government.
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A little Hitchcock, a touch of noir, some ’90s indie rock, a few naked women, and yet not much to see.
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The director Michael Chaves narrates a scene from this thriller about a menacing mother.
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The French filmmaker’s approach to time and structure has long fascinated our interviewer, the American auteur of “Moonlight.”
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Ed Helms provides the internal monologue for a 5-year-old Adélie penguin referred to as Steve, who is about to embark on his first mating season.
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Robert Downey Jr. and the Marvel Studios president, Kevin Feige, look back on a time when “Iron Man,” let alone an “Avengers” movie, was hardly a sure thing.
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She and her husband looked into that famed house of spookiness in Amityville, and their cases turned into films.
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A late-blooming novelist, he had his greatest success with a comedy about a couple in a domestic free-for-all. It became a hit movie.
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