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Movie Review: ‘The Fabelmans’
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Movie Review: ‘The Fabelmans’

John MulderigNovember 16, 20223 min read
Set in the 1950s and ’60s, The Fablemans recounts the childhood and adolescence of Steven Spielberg’s fictional counterpart, Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle).
Movie Review: ‘Black Panther: Wakanda’
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Movie Review: ‘Black Panther: Wakanda’

John MulderigNovember 11, 20223 min read
Grown viewers will be treated to another rousing visit to this realm’s inviting precincts and to the tumultuous, but ultimately pleasing, alternative reality that prevails there.
Movie Review: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
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Movie Review: ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

John MulderigNovember 9, 20223 min read
Director and co-writer Edward Berger’s eponymous production of “All Quiet on the Western Front” is streaming on Netflix.
Movie Review: ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
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Movie Review: ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’

John MulderigNovember 4, 20223 min read
There are some things to celebrate but others to bewail about “The Banshees of Inisherin.” In fact, this bleak combination of black comedy and rural drama incorporates elements that make it acceptable for only a small number of grown movie fans.
Analysis: Even if you’re getting TV for free, you’re paying for it somehow
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Analysis: Even if you’re getting TV for free, you’re paying for it somehow

Mark PattisonNovember 3, 20225 min read
Our latest advance is streaming TV. For those unclear on the concept, you pay a monthly fee in exchange for everything in that streamer’s library of titles and episodes.
TV Review: The Watcher
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TV Review: The Watcher

John MulderigOctober 23, 20223 min read
Grown TV fans in search of eerie programming appropriate to the Halloween season may find that the mystery series “The Watcher” fits the bill. Made up of seven hour-long episodes, the show is currently streaming on Netflix.
Movie Review: ‘Black Adam’
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Movie Review: ‘Black Adam’

John MulderigOctober 21, 20223 min read
Debates about the true nature of justice and heroism, as well as the proper use of force, pace the predictable dustups in “Black Adam,” director Jaume Collet-Serra’s adaptation of DC Comics lore.
Movie Review: Ticket to Paradise
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Movie Review: Ticket to Paradise

John MulderigOctober 21, 20223 min read
While the mostly agreeable comedy “Ticket to Paradise” won’t necessarily transport viewers to cinematic heaven, it will take them to a good place, both visually and thematically. Set in Indonesia, the film showcases enchanting island landscapes as well as ethical ideas generally in keeping with Gospel-based morality.
Vatican movie ‘night’: Popcorn, beer, rosaries and Russell Crowe
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Vatican movie ‘night’: Popcorn, beer, rosaries and Russell Crowe

Carol GlatzOctober 19, 20223 min read
As soon as the lights dimmed for the start of the show in the tiny Vatican movie theater, the crack of beer cans being opened joined the quieter crunch of popcorn.
Movie Review: ‘Halloween Ends’
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Movie Review: ‘Halloween Ends’

John MulderigOctober 14, 20223 min read
Wrapping up a trilogy of installments that began with his 2018 reboot, director and co-writer David Gordon Green also brings to an ostensible conclusion the whole endlessly blood-soaked, 13-film franchise that reaches back to John Carpenter’s 1978 kick-off. But viewers of taste will be on their guard to see just how long this relief really lasts.
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