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Thelma Adams
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Look Into My Eyes (2024) |
The emotional connections are frequently profound, intimate and, like the film itself, compelling. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Sep 13, 2024
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His Three Daughters (2023) |
A never-better Lyonne and a brittle Coon are the standouts in a contemporary “you can’t go home again” family drama that is at times hilarious, cringe-worthy and as brutally honest as a slap in the face. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Sep 13, 2024
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Slingshot (2024) |
The movie is pretty much lost in space, but its saving grace is Laurence Fishburne, 63 (The Matrix) as Frank’s Captain. Fishburne always finds a place of truth from which to build his characters, however far-fetched. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Aug 30, 2024
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You Gotta Believe (2024) |
The movie incorporates the enormous life lessons of loss -- and the soul-healing powers of baseball and teamwork. It’s not the score on the board that matters, but the spirit on and off the field. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Aug 30, 2024
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Between the Temples (2024) |
Both stars -- romantic leads with character actor cred -- have the power to be funny and heartbreaking simultaneously, and their unique chemistry drives the film’s craziness and humanity. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Aug 23, 2024
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Alien: Romulus (2024) |
Expect jump shocks and armrest clutching, and the gnarliest alien expensive CGI can offer, in this visually stunning match made for IMAX, regular theaters and communal screams. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Aug 16, 2024
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Good One (2024) |
[A] terrific, deceptively simple, warm-hearted indie. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Aug 09, 2024
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It Ends With Us (2024) |
Like popular book club fiction, the romance connects with an audience yearning for strong emotions, toggling between the height of romantic love and the depth of domestic violence until the redemptive end. - TheWrap
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| Posted Aug 07, 2024
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Alien Resurrection (1997) |
It strikes me that there are two essentials for a good Alien movie: slurpy, skeletal extraterrestrials with permanent P.M.S. and Sigourney Weaver in butch overdrive. Alien Resurrection has both and more. - New York Post
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| Posted Aug 06, 2024
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The Fabulous Four (2024) |
The movie doesn’t give the fabulous stars quite the vehicle their talents deserve. But we’re happy to see them gathered together, knowing the fab four could run circles around the premise if given half a chance. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Jul 26, 2024
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Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) |
Rowdy, raunchy and gooey gory, Deadpool & Wolverine delivers the action-comedy thrills that will attract Marvel acolytes and civilians seeking belly laughs. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Jul 26, 2024
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Twisters (2024) |
Sparks should fly, but the desperation to insert a romantic rivalry subplot only gets in the way of the majestic ferocity of Mother Nature. The lovey-dovey stuff stirs up no breeze. Bring on the flying trucks and people! - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Jul 19, 2024
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Widow Clicquot (2023) |
Though the movie shifts uneasily back and forth in time, cluttered with breathy voice-overs, the cinematography seduces. It evokes the luscious paintings of Ingres, and Stanley Kubrick’s use of natural light in Barry Lyndon. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Jul 19, 2024
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Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024) |
A movie master class for the price of a movie ticket. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Sing Sing (2023) |
With a layered performance, graceful, compassionate and angry, [Colman Domingo] finds a form of release within the reality of his confinement. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Jul 12, 2024
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Copa 71 (2023) |
Gooooaaaallll! - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Jun 28, 2024
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Kinds of Kindness (2024) |
Poor Things director Yorgos Lanthimos... crushed it at the Oscars when his muse Emma Stone won best actress. But, oof, this nearly three-hour triptych fable trips. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Jun 28, 2024
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Thelma (2024) |
[June Squibb], the lively actor on the verge of another Oscar nomination, has been liberated to be a leading lady for once in a 40-year career. The thieves may have grabbed this grandma’s stash, but Thelma steals the audience’s hearts - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Jun 21, 2024
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Firebrand (2023) |
Law, one moment charming, the next threatening, and the radiant Vikander make Firebrand a fascinating, if choppy, feminist chapter in the voluminous Tudor film archives. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Jun 14, 2024
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The Commandant's Shadow (2024) |
A film that is both fraught and elevated by the slim hope of reconciliation, through facing the past with clear eyes and the present with compassion. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Jun 07, 2024
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Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) |
A sloppy stew of action sequences punctuated by chuckles. But in a summer movie schedule short on combustive comic action, there’s a place for Bad Boys: Ride or Die. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Jun 07, 2024
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Ezra (2023) |
Heartbreaking and hilarious, Ezra is a contemporary audience-pleaser that inspires laughter and tears, sometimes simultaneously. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted May 31, 2024
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Summer Camp (2024) |
Through good gags and misfires, the movie is mild entertainment with the advantage of bringing this big band of mature actors together for a serving of fun with a side of hard-won wisdom. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted May 31, 2024
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) |
Theron made audiences care for her traumatized Furiosa. In comparison, this gargantuan effort is soulless splatter. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted May 24, 2024
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The Garfield Movie (2024) |
It’s innocuous but jolly matinee fare, a kid-friendly event movie for the whole family. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted May 24, 2024
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Back to Black (2024) |
It’s an irresistible narrative that captures the spirit of a song stylist equally talented at self-sabotage. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted May 17, 2024
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Wildcat (2023) |
The literary love fest, though well-intentioned, ends up being more mild than wild. For a true taste of O’Connor’s magic, see Wise Blood (1979), in which her work was best realized onscreen. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted May 03, 2024
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Jeanne du Barry (2023) |
The tableaux are stunning, the costumes surreal and truffle-rich, but the film doesn’t let period details obscure the scandalous love story at its royal center. A warm, scented bath of a movie. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted May 03, 2024
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The Fall Guy (2024) |
The movie is made to entertain: It’s got karaoke, charismatic stars, cars rolling in the air and a winky, devil-may-care attitude. It’s mainstream action-comedy-romance mayhem with extra sizzle. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted May 03, 2024
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Challengers (2024) |
While clever, that exhausting narrative strategy, shot with the stunning shallowness of a Nike ad, bounces along yet never quite lands. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Apr 26, 2024
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We Grown Now (2023) |
This earnest, observant and empathetic coming-of-age adventure presents a story of African American boyhood as iconic as Stand by Me. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Apr 19, 2024
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Hard Miles (2023) |
An inspiring movie that pushes away the soot and trauma of our overtaxed corrections system to find the inherent good in its young denizens, one pedal, one hard mile, at a time. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Apr 19, 2024
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Blood for Dust (2023) |
[A] modest, character-driven modern noir. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Apr 19, 2024
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The Absence of Eden (2023) |
The wonderful Zoe Saldaña plays Esmee, a Mexican migrant desperately trying to escape the tentacles of human and drug trafficking on both sides of the border. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Apr 19, 2024
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Civil War (2024) |
The film, never as daring or nuanced as it needs to be, rests uneasily between Oliver Stone’s provocative war correspondent movie Salvador and Gerard Butler’s ballistic blockbuster Olympus Has Fallen. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Apr 12, 2024
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A Cat's Life (2023) |
Clémence discovers the great joys, and attached sadnesses, of loving a cat with a will of its own. She learns empathy and joy, one purr, one death-defying leap, one loss at a time in a rare family movie of gentle pleasures. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Mar 29, 2024
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Carol Doda Topless at the Condor (2024) |
The film, jam-packed with historical footage, is a fun and fascinating tour of a vice that seems benign in retrospect in the age of ubiquitous internet porn. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Mar 29, 2024
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The Neon Highway (2024) |
Mayes sings better than he acts; he’s no foil for that charmer Bridges, who makes every scene feel as comfortable as an old slipper and earns every tear that comes his way. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Mar 22, 2024
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Knox Goes Away (2023) |
Keaton has proven himself to be as adept at action seriousness as antic comedy. In Knox, his hand is steady... - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Mar 19, 2024
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Remembering Gene Wilder (2023) |
If the engaging documentary inspires a Wilder streaming marathon, so much the better. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Mar 19, 2024
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One Life (2023) |
Hanky, please, for the humanitarian the U.K. press dubbed the “British Schindler.” - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Mar 19, 2024
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American Dreamer (2022) |
There’s a buried gem of a story here. But it’s encrusted in a Dinklage performance in which he once again overplays the crabbiness of his post-Game of Thrones leading men. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Mar 08, 2024
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Pulp Fiction (1994) |
Quentin Tarantino’s true crime adventure embraces an art form as stylized and American as jazz. This eye-popping dark comedy has its roots in the well-crafted, hard-boiled fiction of Jim Thompson, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. - New York Post
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| Posted Feb 29, 2024
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Io Capitano (2023) |
Io Capitano combines magic realism and ultrarealism to give audiences insight into the emotional journey of two lovely and loving young men who share a dream that threatens to tip over into nightmare. Harrowing and uplifting. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Feb 23, 2024
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Drive-Away Dolls (2024) |
Playful and zany, Drive-Away Dolls is an undercooked, if exuberant, slice of entertainment. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Feb 23, 2024
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The Taste of Things (2023) |
The Taste of Things is a yummy version of a life well lived, where dinner isn’t a meal between dusk and dark, but a daily celebration of life for as long as it lasts. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Feb 09, 2024
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Argylle (2024) |
The nonstop stunts are CGI heavy, but it’s jolly, ridiculous fun. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Feb 02, 2024
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The Promised Land (2023) |
[A] compelling, romantic and refreshingly retro drama where broken promises can lead to unexpected opportunities. - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Feb 02, 2024
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Tótem (2023) |
Vibrant, rhythmic and unsentimental, Tótem proves the power of film to immerse the audience in an entire life and culture where the highly specific and universal merge, and move mightily - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Jan 26, 2024
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I.S.S. (2023) |
The tense, taut space thriller with a spare script and sharp, differentiated performances exposes the overachievers’ battle royal -- who will survive, and to what on earth can they possibly return? - AARP Movies for Grownups
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| Posted Jan 19, 2024
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