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Movie Review: Documentary ‘The Eternal Memory’ shows that love is stronger than dementia

“The Eternal Memory” begins with a confused Augusto Góngora waking up one morning as his wife of two decades gently greets him. “Nice to meet you,” he tells her.

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Movie Review: ‘Gran Turismo’ movie drifts into cliches and video game aesthetics

In 2006, a Nissan marketing executive had a truly insane idea to create a competition and an “academy” to turn gamers into race car drivers.

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Movie Review: Spoiler alert! Jason Statham jumps even bigger sharks in ‘Meg 2.’ (Also, dinosaurs)

“Meg 2: The Trench” is a movie that screams: “Sequel! What do we do NOW?” Director Ben Wheatley’s answer is to make everything bigger, and more: More Megs.

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Movie Review: Passion and love get messy in Ira Sachs’ smoldering ‘Passages’

The new film “Passages” is centered on Tomas, a German living in France with his English husband Martin who begins an affair with a French woman, Agathe.

This image released by Paramount Pictures shows, from left, Michelangelo "Mikey", voiced by Shamon Brown Jr., Donatello, "Donnie" voiced by Micah Abbey, Leonardo "Leo", voiced by Nicolas Cantu and Raphael "Raph", voiced by Brady Noon in a scene from "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem." (Paramount Pictures via AP)

Movie review: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back, and maybe better than ever

There are some good gags and clever innovations in the animated “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.”

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Film review: ‘The Beanie Bubble,’ with Zach Galifianakis, plunges into a plush toy ‘90s craze

Who knew so many movie ideas could be found while rummaging through your attic? This year we’ve had movies on Tetris (“Tetris”), Nike (“Air”), Blackberry (“Blackberry”) and Cheetos (“Flamin’ Hot”).

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Movie Review: Baby’s first horror? Disney’s ‘Haunted Mansion’ conjures up a story about grief

LaKeith Stanfield plays a grief-stricken astrophysicist who tries to help a single mother played by Rosario Dawson out with her haunted house in “Haunted Mansion,” based on the Disney ride.

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Movie Review: Horror flick ‘Talk to Me’ is a hand-some high-five for twin Australian filmmakers

You’ve got to hand it to the Philippou brothers. They’ve taken the old horror cliche of a severed hand and made something worth, well, applauding, says Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy.

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Movie Review: Tensions boil over in Christian Petzold’s haunting summer drama ‘Afire’

Fire is in the air this summer, literally, and at the movies. In Christian Petzold’s “Afire,” friends descend on a family home for a working vacation, one is a writer, one is a photographer, to find a mysterious guest already in the house.

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Movie Review: The resilience of basketball star Stephen Curry explored in Apple TV+ doc

“Stephen Curry: Underrated” is a portrait of a man — the greatest three-point shooter of all time — who has felt inferior playing the game he loves since he was a scrawny kid playing on his local under-10 team.

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Movie Review: A bomb and its fallout in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’

Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is a kinetic thing of dark, imposing beauty that quakes with the disquieting tremors of a forever rupture in the course of human history.

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Movie Review: She’s Perfect Barbie. He’s Scene-Stealing Ken. Their life in plastic looks fantastic

She’s been Astronaut Barbie, Teacher Barbie, Doctor Barbie, President Barbie. And now after 64 years, we have live-action Movie Star Barbie.

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Movie Review: Cheap thrills in tedious Netflix spinoff ‘Bird Box Barcelona’

Netflix tries to capitalize on the popularity of its 2018 film “Bird Box” with “Bird Box Barcelona,” set in the Spanish city around the same time, with a new cast that does not include Sandra Bullock.

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Film review: Musical theater meets mockumentary in ‘Theater Camp’

Among the low-hanging fruits of satire, sleepaway theater camps would dangle about as low as social-media influencers and Def Leppard cover bands.

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‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning, Part One’ movie review

Wondering if you should choose to accept the latest “Mission: Impossible” entry? Put it another way: Do you really want to disappoint Tom Cruise?

This image released by Lionsgate shows Sabrina Wu as Deadeye, from left, Ashley Park as Audrey, Sherry Cola as Lolo, and Stephanie Hsu as Kat, in a scene from "Joy Ride." (Ed Araquel/Lionsgate via AP)

Movie Review: ‘Joy Ride’ is a cheerfully gross-out comedy that soars, thanks to a terrific cast

The raunch comes early and often in “Joy Ride,” from first-time director Adele Lim. But the gross-out factor is balanced by the film’s huge heart and abundant opportunities for belly laughs, writes Associated Press critic Jocelyn Noveck.

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Movie Review: ‘Insidious: The Red Door’ fails to scare up a winning formula for franchise’s finale

The “Insidious” franchise folds back on itself for the fifth installment, returning to its roots with the movie equivalent of getting the band back together.

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Movie Review: ‘The Lesson’ provides a spicy literary thriller

The egos are as vast and thorny as the gardens on the lush estate of a prominent author in “The Lesson,” an erudite chamber piece about a master, a tutor and a family after loss starring Richard E.

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A sea monster is celebrated in ‘Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken’

We landlubbers have gotten it all wrong: Kraken aren’t terrible sea monsters who destroy our sailing ships and munch on our sailors. They’re kind and helpful.

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What does it mean to be intersex? ‘Every Body’ sheds light on little-known subject

The new documentary “Every Body” opens with footage of elaborate, often absurd “gender reveals.” But by the end of this illuminating film, viewers will be forced to confront something much deeper and more insidious: society’s need to divide humans into a binary system, and its sometimes disastrous r