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Find a list of new movie and TV releases on DVD and Blu-ray (updated weekly) as well as a calendar of upcoming B-independent releases on home video. Nearly three decades after their Oscar-winning work on Forrest Gump (1994), the duo of Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks reunited for Here, but it performed worse at the box office in comparison to Forrest Gump. It’s a unique concept that looks fondly back at the past few decades of American culture, telling a story spanning generations that ultimately studies how society has evolved with time. The disparity between artistic merit and box-office performance is perhaps best demonstrated by the case of the Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice. With performances from Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong as Donald Trump and Roy Cohn, respectively, which earned them Golden Globes nominations, the Ali Abbasi movie bombed for reasons extraneous to the actual content of the film.

Culture

When she finds herself ostracized at a school party because of the soon-to-be familiar black hat Glinda has made her wear, Elphaba creates her own rhythmic dance movements, without any music for accompaniment. Onstage, it’s a relatively quick bit, played as a prelude to the two protagonists starting to get closer. Here, it’s the movie’s emotional high point, as Chu and Erivo turn Elphaba’s glower from an expression of defeat into one of defiance, thus laying the groundwork for her eventual transformation. The Fall Guy is an action thriller from Bullet Train and Deadpool 2 director David Leitch.

For all its ambition and cinematic pyrotechnics, Wicked doesn’t feel like it’s been opened up that much from the source, maybe because the play is already huge and eye-popping. So much of the show consists of speeches, tours, grand expositions — people speaking and singing to and with large crowds. That makes some organic sense in a stage production, but it can be wearying when translated to film. Reinforcing the sense of overarching allegory, the population of Oz is basically a blank mass of imbeciles, easily manipulated and fickle to a fault. Meanwhile, we keep waiting for the main characters to show some delicacy of emotion, something subtle and human, something to make us care for them beyond their status as icons or symbols. It opens with all of Oz celebrating the liquidation of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who will eventually be played by Cynthia Erivo.

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There’s an intimidating amount of great anime out there, but certain shows and movies are perfect for those looking to get into the art form. Featuring in a bad superhero movie can complicate an actor’s career, but some had the misfortune of being let down by superhero movies twice. Rafiki (John Kani) regales Simba’s (Donald Glover) cub (Blue Ivy Carter) with the story of how her grandfather Mufasa (Aaron Pierre) became king. British pop star Robbie Williams is portrayed as a CGI chimpanzee in a brilliant and sad musical biopic about his rise to stardom. These 22 stories from Palestinian filmmakers made in Gaza during the genocide are necessary viewing. Read the latest film and TV reviews written by our contributors to help you determine what’s worth watching.

Together, the crowd represented an uneasy marriage between spectatorship and grieving. It was a cold, overcast afternoon in Toruń, Poland, as a packed theater watched Alec Baldwin shoot people. The moment a real bullet fired from a prop gun to kill cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, the film was transformed into an object of morbid curiosity. Since her breakout roles in “The Leftovers” and “Gone Girl” a decade ago, Coon has proven herself one of the most versatile actors of her generation. In her hands, Phyllis is not just some recovering coke-head floozy with a knack for doling out violence at the drop of a hat.

• In writer-director Jeffrey Reiner’s “Lake George,” two misfits go on a crime odyssey that takes them through almost all these desolate, lonely places.
• The Apprentice depicts a young Donald Trump in 1970s New York, highlighting his formative relationship with Roy Cohn, a ruthless attorney.
• The highly-anticipated release of Coppola’s passion project was met with disgruntled reviews from viewers who couldn’t make heads or tails of the affair, while the movie was widely panned by critics for being too whimsical to work.
• Gareth Edwards is set to direct the new Jurassic World movie, and it remains to be seen how heavily his experience with Godzilla will influence it.

While Megalopolis did meet one global box office milestone, Francis Ford Coppola’s first movie in over a decade is perhaps the most surprising flop of 2024. The highly-anticipated release of Coppola’s passion project was met with disgruntled reviews from viewers who couldn’t make heads or tails of the affair, while the movie was widely panned by critics for being too whimsical to work. However, passion projects of celebrated filmmakers made to bring their whims to life rarely fail to become cult classics. It is hard to understand the box office performances of Guy Ritchie’s movies. He rarely has a smashing blockbuster hit, and in recent years, most of his underperforming movies have been interesting and engaging films that deserved to do better.

Get a list of the best movies and TV shows recently added (and coming soon) to Max–plus all of the titles leaving the streaming service this month–updated frequently. Another case of a critically acclaimed movie underperforming at the box office in 2024, Saturday Night tells the story of the first episode ever of Saturday Night Live. Light and shadow are given incredible personality, echoing the 1922 original’s emphasis on Nosferatu’s own shadow and its ability to « engulf you like a daemonic nightmare » (to quote Murnau’s classic). In the original, said shadow powerfully but somewhat ambiguously signals his presence.

But the story of a family’s devotion to a sports team is something many fans can relate to. December 26, 2024 • In the new movie Babygirl, Nicole Kidman plays a high-powered CEO who has an affair her mysterious intern (Harris Dickinson). Their affair gets complicated by the many power dynamics involved — not just in the office, but also in a sexual relationship defined by dominance and submission. Gareth Edwards is set to direct the new Jurassic World movie, and it remains to be seen how heavily his experience with Godzilla will influence it. 2024 has been a huge year from comic book movies for the MCU, the DCU, and the SSU.

Reiner deftly weaves this kind of regional humor into his script, along with playful winks and nods to the film noir genre. The film’s final sequence in the titular Lake George finds its characters near the Inyo National Forest, near the ​​pristine eastern Sierra Nevadas. Don even wears a tourist shirt for the town of Lone Pine, where countless westerns and noir, like the Humphrey Bogart and Ida Lupino vehicle “High Sierra,” were filmed during Hollywood’s golden era.