Movies
Today’s audiences don’t just watch movies at the local cineplex. They screen them on their laptops, tablets and smart phones as well. The genres may be different, but Hollywood in Toto looks at entertainment value first and foremost when helping you pick the best movie for your favorite media player.
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‘Man Called Otto’ Is All Wrong for Hanks … and Us
Marc Forster’s “A Man Named Otto” stars Tom Hanks in the title role as an angry, eccentric old man who…
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‘Bardo: False Chronicles…’ Is as Pretentious As It Sounds
Alejandro G. Inarritu’s “Bardo: False Chronicles of a Handful of Truths” is one of the silliest films I’ve seen all…
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‘White Noise’ Offers Disaster Cinema, Woody Allen Style
In a span of just a few years, Adam Driver has become a consistently exciting and often brilliant actor to…
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‘The Whale’ Punishes Us from Start to Finish
Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale” is a painful new drama that has been touted for months as the marking the return…
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‘Babylon’ Is a Future Classic … And Here’s Why
Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon” has already inspired mountains of articles that declare it either a masterpiece or a foul disaster, which…
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Dueling ‘Pinocchios’: Why del Toro Trumps Zemeckis
The little wooden puppet who longs to be a real boy is having quite the movie year. Based on Carlo…
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‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody’ Checks All the Biopic Boxes (Yawn)
“I Wanna Dance with Somebody” feels like a CliffsNotes version of Whitney Houston’s life story. The film hits all the…
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The Best Movies of 2022 (And a ‘Maverick’ Shall Lead Them)
Tom Cruise didn’t just prove audiences longed to go back to the theater. The megastar delivered an apolitical smash that united critics…
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‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ Is the Antonio Banderas Show (And Little Else)
One of the joys of catching up with the title characters of “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” is revisiting…
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Here’s What You Missed About the Overrated ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’
Few films earned as much hipster cred this year than “Bodies Bodies Bodies.” Modern critics are more amenable to horror…
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