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- MoviePass has changed moviegoing – will it last?
MoviePass made a huge splash in August 2017 when it lowered its monthly unlimited rate to $9.95. Observers are unsure if it's sustainable, but it's already disrupted the movie theater industry.
- Sequel 'Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again' appears 10 years after original
The film cuts back and forth between the present and 1979, when Donna, blandly played as a young woman by Lily James, met her three beaus and went gaga for Greece.
- 'Custody' doesn’t skimp on the ordeal of the child in a custody battle
Xavier Legrand’s intense debut feature, 'Custody,' at times presents people more as symbols than as individuals.
- 'Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti' chronicles Gauguin’s desire to see a new way
It’s a perplexing, fascinating, maddening movie, not quite like any other film biography of a famous painter.
- 'Shock and Awe' is a rote piece of work
The movie, which proves yet again that righteousness does not in itself make for a good film, depicts the work of the Knight Ridder journalists who worked in the lead-up to the 2003 Iraq War.
- 'Sorry to Bother You' eventually loses its way in a welter of surreality
There’s a promising satirical idea embedded in 'Sorry to Bother You,' but the writer-director, Boots Riley, doesn’t quite know how to extricate it.
- 5 movies you should see this month
Viewers will rejoice in the hopes of immigrants while watching 'En el Séptimo Día,' one of Monitor critic Peter Rainer's best movies of June.
- 'Three Identical Strangers' is a true story that could only be believed because it actually happened
In 1980, through sheer coincidence, 19-year-olds Robert Shafran and Eddy Galland discovered they are identical twins separated at birth. When their story was trumpeted in the media, 19-year-old David Kellman saw the photos and realized he was their triplet.
- 'Leave No Trace' shows empathy for those on the fringes of society
Ben Foster stars as Will, a war veteran and widower with post-traumatic stress disorder who has been living undercover with daughter Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie) in a large public nature preserve in Portland, Ore.
- First LookHow two documentaries became summer box office hits
'Won't You Be My Neighbor?' and 'RBG' made unlikely box office stars of their subjects. The two documentaries serve as reminders to be kind and helpful – a message that is missing from the news, those behind the film said.
- First Look'Jurassic World,' 'Incredibles 2' make for Hollywood's fourth-largest weekend ever
Hollywood raked in $280 million in ticket sales in the United States and Canada, roughly double what it made the same weekend last year. The largest factor: "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" roaring past bad reviews to open with $150 million.
- 'The Catcher Was a Spy' is more pallid than its eminently juicy subject deserves
Paul Rudd stars as Morris 'Moe' Berg, a middling catcher in baseball’s major leagues who was recruited by US military intelligence to spy on and possibly assassinate physicist Werner Heisenberg.
- The cast outshines the material in road trip movie ‘Boundaries’
Because of Christopher Plummer and Vera Farmiga, 'Boundaries,' which might have been cooked up by a screenwriting program called RoadMovie, is halfway tolerable.
- 'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' is the latest and arguably least of the series
Chris Pratt brings a wry insouciance to the mayhem and the escape from Isla Nublar has its modicum of thrills.
- First LookTo encourage diversity in Hollywood, a proposed tax credit
California's proposed budget includes a tax credit for movie productions made in state that would require reporting diversity statistics and have sexual harassment protections in place for its employees. Credits would be awarded to "below the line" hiring practices, not just for starring actors and directors.
- In China, US films struggle against homegrown movies
With audiences in North America steadily shrinking, Chinese moviegoers have never been more important to Hollywood. But China has also poured billions of dollars into its own film industry.
- 'Saving Brinton' chronicles discovery of film rarities
In 1981, Mike Zahs bought the boxed artifacts of Frank and Indiana Brinton, two barnstorming Iowa show people who, in the late 19th and early 20th century, projected early movies and staged magic acts all across the heartland.
- While watching 'En el Séptimo Día,' viewers rejoice in the hopes of immigrants
The film – the title means 'On the Seventh Day' in Spanish – is an unassuming charmer about a hot-button subject.
- First LookBrie Larson pushes for film criticism diversity at awards show
Winners at the Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards took the opportunity to advocate for diversity both in front of and behind the camera.
- 'Ocean's 8' has some spark and dazzle
Sandra Bullock plays Debbie, the sister of master con man Danny Ocean (who was played by George Clooney). Debbie’s assemblage of her crack team for a jewel heist has its sly amusements.