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Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)
I’m not thrilled about the lack of worthy romantic leading men in recent Hollywood animation, but I prefer the theme in Frozen, about needing to get to know someone before deciding to get married, to this series’ magical, inexorable “Zing” moment.
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Ant-Man and the Wasp [video] (2018)
No infinity. No war. (Almost.) Why can’t more Marvel movies be like this?
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
In some ways Ant-Man and the Wasp is the kind of movie I wanted Ant-Man to be: namely, a refreshing antidote to the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Apparently velociraptor is the cowbell of dino design and the filmmakers are Christopher Walken.
Incredibles 2 (2018)
As The Incredibles in its day towered over the Hollywood animation landscape of the last decade, so in some measure does Incredibles 2 in this decade — but what a different and diminished landscape it is today.
“God saved my life”: The Rider star Brady Jandreau
Brady Jandreau is a young Lakota Sioux rodeo star who met filmmaker Chloé Zhao while she was filming at a South Dakota ranch.… Zhao wanted her next film to be about Jandreau’s world and way of life. While she was searching for a way into the story, Jandreau’s career came to an abrupt end when a bronco threw him and then stomped on his head, shattering his skull.
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
For a few formative years of our lives, Mr. Rogers showed us the way. Why don’t we walk that way? Because of all the voices dominating the discussion ever since.
First Reformed (2018)
Schrader makes greater use than ever before of what he calls the “transcendental toolkit” — but it’s still very much a film from the writer of Taxi Driver. If Toller partly evokes Bresson’s wan, saintly curé, in time we see that he’s also part Travis Bickle, which can be as difficult to watch as it sounds.
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Watching Disney’s Rogue One and Solo, the two stand-alone “Star Wars Story” movies that come without episode numbers and opening crawls, is a little like watching the legendary Dutch boy trying to plug the leaks in the dike with his fingers … as new leaks burst all around him.
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Tully [video] (2018)
A messy, thought-provoking film about motherhood from the makers of Juno and Young Adult? Go figure.
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