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  Take That, Biopics! 'Better Man' Bests the Formula

  Directed by Michael Gracey

  PUBLISHED Dec 25, 2024

  What makes 'Better Man' a distinctive music biopic among the seemingly endless sea of the subgenre is not the fact that director Michael...

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  Martin Short Brought a Parade of Celebrity Cameos to 'Saturday Night Live'

  December 21, 2024

  PUBLISHED Dec 22, 2024

  With a little help from many celebrity friends, the brilliant Martin Short finally joined the Five-Timers Club and appeared in most of the...

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  'Nosferatu' Feeds Off of Its Predecessors 

  Directed by Robert Eggers

  PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2024

  In singing the praises of F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent odyssey Nosferatu, Roger Ebert described the film as, "in awe of its material. It seems...

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  Be Prepared, 'Mufasa: The Lion King' Circles Back to Its Classic Origins

  Directed by Barry Jenkins

  PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2024

  From its opening tribute to the late James Earl Jones, Barry Jenkins's 'Mufasa: The Lion King' makes certain to pay care and respect to the...

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  The Weather Station Is Shadowboxing Herself on "Body Moves"

  Exclaim! Staff Picks

  PUBLISHED Dec 16, 2024

  On "Body Moves," Tamara Lindeman is shadowboxing, dodging the swings and fakeouts of a form in rebellion. The latest taste of the luminous...

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  'The Brutalist' Builds Up and Tears Down the American Dream

  Directed by Brady Corbet

  PUBLISHED Dec 16, 2024

  The first thing that Hungarian-Jewish architect and Holocaust survivor László Tóth (Adrien Brody) sees upon emerging from the dark, cramped...

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  Chris Rock Relived the Good Old Days on 'SNL' with Help from Adam Sandler

  December 14, 2024

  PUBLISHED Dec 15, 2024

  Chris Rock returned for a strong episode of Saturday Night Live, joined at one point by his 'SNL' castmate Adam Sandler, and Gracie Abrams...

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  The Tragically Hip and Feist's "'It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken'" Carries the Spirit — If Not the Sound — of Gord Downie

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  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2024

  The Tragically Hip have wisely not reunited since singer Gord Downie's tragic death in 2017, but they closest they came was doing a...